Specific Planting Techniques

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Aquilegia (Columbine)

Suggestions for growing columbines.

Forcing Bulbs for Early Indoor Color

Forcing your bulbs to bloom earlier by starting them indoors. Selection, starting, storage, and planting of early-blooming bulbs in containers indoors.

How to Plant a Thyme Lawn

We have found thyme lawns to be most attractive in smaller, more intimate areas where the edges can be interplanted with taller plants.

Lavender: A Perfect Match for Low Maintenance Xeriscapes

You have a busy life and want a low maintenance landscape that looks great. Lavender is a great choice. Here’re some reasons why.

Lean Soil and Tips for Growing Indian Paintbrush

Growing tips on Indian Paintbrush.

Make Spring Happen: Force a Bulb

In the dead of winter do you get a little anxious for spring? Try forcing bulbs to bloom.

Naturalizing Spring-Blooming Bulbs

Naturalizing bulbs planting them in a manner so they appear as if they grew naturally in a particular location.

Pansies: Tough Guys of the Garden

Pansies are ideal for edging along borders and do well squeezed among bulbs and perennials. Their bright colors add zip to early emerging spring gardens. They can be planted close together for a soft cohesiveness in flowerbeds.

Penstemon (Beardtongue)

Describes the various kinds of penstemons and how to grow them.

Penstemon: Tubular Joy in the Garden

What better rhythm in a garden than the coming and going of penstemons.

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