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Spring Fever: Restless Brown Marmorated Stink Bugs Stumble Forth

Brown marmorated stink bugs (Halyomorpha halys), as they shrug off their wintry hibernation, announce the arrival of spring.

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Black Cherry (Prunus serotina): Spring's Early Snow White Splendor

Prunus serotina, as the black cherry tree, bedazzles with the showy white splendor of its early spring flowering.

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Greenhouse Irrigation Systems Review - Setting A System Up Is Easier Than You Think

If your looking for greenhouse irrigation methods and resources you're in the right place!

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Indispensable garden tools make weeding, planting, and pruning easy

Love gardening, me to. Make your time spent in the garden more fun, and rewarding, with these garden tools that make weeding, planting, and pruning easy.

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Grapefruit Trees: An Anatomical Tour of Citrus x paradisi

Every part of a grapefruit tree exudes grace. Citrus x paradisi has a generous, giving anatomy, with a use for every part.

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Beautiful and Easy Butterfly Gardens

Learn how to easily attract crowds of butterflies to your yard and garden with the right perennial and annual flowers.

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Things flower and vegetable gardeners need to know about garden soil

Before April showers can bring May flowers, garden plants require proper soil PH and composition discussed here

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The American Holly Tree - Range, Growing Requirements, and Ecology

Use of American Holly tree in gardening and landscaping; growing requirements, size, and advantages over non-native hollies when grown in or near its native range.

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Grapefruit Ethnobotany: Generous Versatility of Citus x paradisi as Food Sources and So Much More

Grapefruit trees add beauty and commercial value to the landscape. All parts of a grapefruit tree have a use, of which the best known and most beloved is as a food source.

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How to Keep Raccoons Out of the Garden

I have a small garden and I have a raccoons stealing my vegetables. Here I list some worthwhile solutions to try.

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Garden

Garden tools for happy weeding

I love weeding the garden. I've got my favorite weeding tools that I'd like to share with you. Don't enjoy weeding? Maybe you've just not got the right tools! They're here.

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Outdoor Power Tools

Hiring a Snow Plow Service or Buying a Snow Blower

Every fall, my husband and I have the same conversation. Should we hire a company to plow our driveway this year or should we buy a snow blower?

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Garden Storage Benches

A garden storage bench will not only give some extra seating but it is a great looking addition to a patio or deck for storage.

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How Soil Temperature Affects Seed Germination, Seedlings and Garden Plant Production

Best soil temperature, all our favorite garden plantings have a specific temperature range, seeds best germinate, and seedlings grow and produce healthy fruit & vegetable plants...

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Plants

The Judas Tree - or Love Tree

This tree is commonly known as the Judas Tree, and less commonly known as the Love Tree. How it came by these names is an interesting story.

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Portable and Cheap Greenhouses for Weather Proof Gardening

Believe it or not, it might not be possible to harvest the yield without these beautiful and efficient greenhouses that function all year round.

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Deer Proof Rosa Rugosa Hybrids: Five Rugous Roses for Deer Free Gardens

Five fragrant, pretty Rosa rugosa hybrids excel at discouraging deer as garden invaders.

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Yucca filamentosa: Vital to Yucca Moth and Giant Skipper, Favored by Black-Chin or Broadtail Hummers

Sought by black-chinned and broad-tailed hummers, New World native Adam's needle (Yucca filamentosa) also is vital in the life cycle of yucca moths and giant skipper butterflies.

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