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How to Keep a Garden Journal to Benefit Home Buyers

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Garden Journaling Adds Value to Your Home Most people think of keeping a garden journal or logbook simply for their own benefit—to remember the names of plants, planning ideas, or the location of fall-planted bulbs. If you’ve ever forgotten the name of your tree or shrub or where you planted those daffodil bulbs three years […]

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Scrapbooking Garden Journal

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Many gardener’s keep a journal to record seasonal garden information. but have you thought of combining an art journal with the customary jottings about seeds and harvest? Make memories out of yours.

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Do You Think of Your Garden Journal as a Tool?

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If someone mentions the basic garden tools that every gardener should have, they tell you about hoes, trowels, shovels, and weeding tools, but how many list a garden journal? It is relegated to the garden paraphernalia that are peripherals for most gardeners, an after-thought jotted on forgotten notebooks. Dig Into Your Garden Information with a […]

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Print Your Own Garden Journal

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Printable Garden Journal! (The original source is no longer online, but I linked to the version captured on the web archive.) Look at this, if you want to put your computer to work for you… print your own garden journal. You choose your paper, and if you have a graphics program you could tweak colors […]

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Making A Garden Journal

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Making a Garden Journal Years ago I read some advice on making a garden journal, which I subsequently ignored in my chutzpah assurance that I would always be as involved with the process as I was at that time. The advice was to write the names of the plants which I had planted, and to […]

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10 Best Perennial Plants for Anyone’s Garden

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The thrilling expectancy of Spring is in the air and what better way to feed the anticipation than to visit the Central Ohio Home and Garden Show which opens this Saturday, February 28th? I am so excited to go this year. You have time to hop on over to a Home Depot store and get […]

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Witch Hazel ushers in Spring On the whole, deciduous, flowering shrubs get short shrift in modern gardens. We know about lilacs and weigelas, perhaps, but are often discouraged from planting them given “lack of seasonal interest” as the rationalization for such advice. It is true that some of them shine only when in bloom. Flowering […]

Start Spring with a Big Pop of Color   Though the usual sequence is to plant the bulbs in the fall for bloom in the spring, some growers cheat the system by chilling those sold for spring bloom. This is necessary for Southern gardens which don’t get the required cold temperatures. Presented here are some […]

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It is increasingly the Holy Grail of garden designs: making a landscape low maintenance. For many reasons, reducing the work load of our outdoor spaces has become a priority. We are busy with many activities We are aging Viewing flowers rather than weeding flowerbeds is preferable That is not the definitive list, by any means, […]

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