Birds, Wildlife & Beneficial Insects

Accidental Orange Invader Annual Pennsylvania Amphibian & Reptile Survey A walk in the woods – poison ivy and ticks Bats Attracting Bats to Your Garden Bats - A Scary Surprise Driving me Bat-ty"! The Truth About Bats! The Wonderful World of Bats Bat Chat Bees Bee Garden Bees are our Friends Bees Aren’t the Only Pollinators Bees: Friend Or Foe? Bees and wasps and why they sting Before You Cut Down Those Perennials Controlling the friendly Carpenter Bee Culver’s Root: the perfect native plant for pollinators Feed The Pollinators Have you seen this bee? Help Preserve Our Native Bees Honey Bees and Other Pollinators In Praise of African Blue Basil Invite Pollinators into Your Garden Late Summer Bees & Wasps Mother Nature Teaches the Beekeeper Native Bees Nature’s Tricks To Lure Pollinators Nectar - how sweat it is! Plan Bee - Native Pollinators Pollinators At Work Pollinator Houses As Sculptures Pollinators – Who Cares Really Bad Year for Yellow Jackets Relax; it’s just a bee! The friendly, beneficial honeybee The Garden Buzzes with Activity To Bee or Not to Bee – A Gardening Dilemma Vitex versus Butterfly Bush What’s in a Garden… Wasps - Don't Kill the Wasps Where Have All the Bees Gone? Why plant a pollinator garden You can learn to love the Orchard Mason Bee Beneficial Insects Praying or Preying Mantis? Restoring Our Natural Environment Spiders - my friend in the garden Small wonders Take Advantage of the Beneficial Insects Beneficial Wasps Autumn is Approaching – Watch for Wasps! Birds Attracting and Keeping Bluebirds Attracting Birds and Butterflies to Your Garden Attracting Eastern Bluebirds to Your Garden Attracting Hummingbirds Attracting Hummingbirds to a garden Attracting Hummingbirds to Your Garden Attracting Purple Martins Attracting Winter Birds Bird Feeder Lessons Bird Feeding – A Winter Activity Winter Bird feeding Caring for birds, bees, and butterflies in winter Bird feeding basics for the budget minded Bird Gardening Bird Gardening – A Double Delight Caring for Birds in Winter Create Your Own Winter Wonderland with Berry Plants Creating a Habitat for Hummingbirds Feeding and Attracting Birds Feeding Birds In the Winter Feeding the Birds in the Winter take 2 Feeding Birds through the Seasons Feed the Birds: Good for You & Your Garden Gardening for birds Gardening for the Birds Great Backyard Bird Count How to Attract Birds Humming Birds and Spiders: Nature’s Peanut Butter and Jelly Invite the Hummers, and They Will Come Growing a Buffet for Hummingbirds Hummingbirds - The Crown Jewels of Birds Molting: It’s for the Birds Nesting Birds Nothin'll Grow There - Except Peanut Butter and Bird Seed!!! Summertime Habits of Favorite PA Birds The Return of the Bald Eagle Butterfly Gardening Butterflies and Violets Butterfly and Container Gardening Butterfly blitz Butterfly gardening: A great source of enjoyment Butterflies--Not Just a Pretty Face Culver’s Root: the perfect native plant for pollinators Encounters with butterflies Monarch Butterflies Attracting Monarch Butterflies To Your Garden Monarchs Are Definitely Back Monarch - King of the Butterflies How You Can Help The Monarch Survive Monarchs – The Hazards of Life in the Wild Planting Natives Equals More Butterflies! Pollinator Plot - A Butterfly Attractant Select the Perfect Native Plant for your Favorite Butterfly Starting a butterfly garden Tall Garden Phlox - a Major Pollinator Attractor Watch for Fall Migrating Monarchs Where Do Butterflies Go In The Winter? Why plant a pollinator garden Creating Garden Spaces for Cats Critters in the Garden Eastern Grey Squirrels Even Non-Gardeners Can Help Support Pollinators Feed The Pollinators Fireflies – the Bright Lights of Summer Fireflies Gardening Facts for the New Year Good intentions: a cautionary tale How to Attract Beneficial Insects Lady Bugs Lady Beetles: Too Much of a Good Thing? Ladybugs, The Beneficial Insect Ladybug, Ladybug Fly Away Home - Lady Beetles, Part 2 Ladybird! Ladybug! Fly Away ... Into My Garden Moles and Voles: Which is which? Who is to blame? National Wildlife Federation’s Backyard Wildlife Habitat Program Nature’s Tricks To Lure Pollinators Pollinator friendly gardens boost environmental health Red Fox: The Not So Secret Life of a Red Fox Spiders Spiders Spider Silk- Nature’s Thread Spider Kin Spiders in the Garden Spiders - my friend in the garden Spiders – The Natural Bug Magnets Stop and See the Wildlife The Night Life Toads in Your Garden A Plea to Save the Frogs and Toads In Praise of Toads What’s Bugging You? Winterizing Your Garden for Our Wildlife Friends Where Have Our Summer Garden Friends Gone? Worms Winter Worms Inside & Out Worms ate my Garbage

Droughts

A Spouse's Guide to Building the Perfect Water Barrel System Automatic Watering Systems Building the Perfect Rain Barrel System Drought-Proof Your Landscape Gardening in a Drought Gardening in Changing Weather Patterns Honey, I'm not going to cut the lawn anymore No-Water Gardening Planting in dry shade Plants to Grow in a Drought Saving Plants: Saving Water Saving Rain for Landscape Watering The effect of heat stress on plants The key roll rain barrels play in gardens The Science Behind Rain Barrels Tips for Efficient Water Use Tomatoes and the Drought Understanding Drought Stress Watering During the Dry Days to Come Water-wise Yard and Garden Care What Makes a Cactus a Cactus Xerscaping - Water Wise Gardening

Ecological Gardening & Native Plants

A Bog Garden and its Habitat A garden gone wild A Winter Garden Habitat Alternative to Traditional Lawns An Ever-changing Garden Animal, Vegetable, Mineral ... Backyard Is an Ecosystem Baptisia Beware the Beloved Scottish Thistle Black-eyed Susans Brambles - the Season of the Berries Buttonbush: A Great Native Shrub "Companion planting" & organic gardening So Happy Together ... Companion Planting Coneflowers Aren’t Just Purple Anymore Controlling Japanese Beetles Without Use of Chemicals Creating Your Own Wildlife Corridor Culver’s Root: the perfect native plant for pollinators Do’s and don’ts of bare root plants Echinaceas - A must-have in every garden Ecological value of native plants Effective Weed Control for Your Garden Enjoyment of a Wildlife Garden Environmentally Sound Fall Clean Up Practices in the Garden Establishing A New Garden With No Digging Exotic Invasive Plants and Our Environment Feed The Pollinators Why plant a pollinator garden Gardening for Beneficial Insects Gardening with Gold Gardening With Nature Getting to Know Your Yard's Microclimates Goldenrod for Fall Color Green Buzzwords Green Gardens, Clean Water Habitat: Preserving What We Need Honey, I'm not going to cut the lawn anymore Who Needs Grass? Ice Melting Products In Praise of African Blue Basil Integrated Pest Management Integrated Pest Management - Take II How to battle bugs and be sensitive to the environment Managing Plantings without Pesticides Learning by Observing Nature at Work Invasives Invasive or Not? Lessons from the garden Let’s teach our kids the value of plant diversity Lost Your Butterfly Bush? Try Natives Next Time Making your garden a refuge for local wildlife Make Your Yard Support Our Environment Milkweed -Thug or Beneficial? Lessons Learned From My Milkweed Mountain Mint Mountain Laurel—Four Seasons of Splendor Native Intelligence Native Honeysuckle - A Magnet for Hummers Native plants better, cheaper than lawns Native Plants for Late Summer Bloom Native Plant Gardens Going native The Invasive are coming: Be Prepared Invasive plants, Part II Invasive Exotics Are Taking Over! Planting Natives Equals More Butterflies! Spring-Summer 2005 tour The down side of non-native plants Using Native Plants in Your Home Landscape Why Grow Natives? Native Red Columbine Participate in Nature: Become a Citizen Scientist Permaculture and the Home Garden: Finding a Balance Permaculture - Gardening Sustainably Experimenting with Companion Planting Permaculture and Food Forests Photosynthesis, the Key to Life Poison Ivy - The Native Plant Nobody Wants Planned and unplanned Preparing a Sunny Wildflower Garden Preserving our Natural Habitat Protect Pollinators - Certify Your Garden Even Non-Gardeners Can Help Support Pollinators Pussy Willow -- A Valuable Native Plant Rain Gardens Rudbeckia – the Yellow Star of the summer Saving Plants: Saving Water Selecting Native Trees for Your Yard Soil Health Spring Blooming Native Perennials Stop Storm Water Run-Off On A Hilly Lot Restoring Our Natural Environment Reparian Buffers Take Advantage Of Free Fertilizer... Use Your Leaves! Take Your Soil’s Temperature Taking the Safe Seed Pledge Techniques for a healthy, productive organic garden The Cottage Garden Part 1 Part 2 The Cup Plant, a valuable native plant The Downside of Burn Barrels The Effect of Urban Sprawl on Wildlife and Home Gardening The Hidden Side Effects of Chemical Weed Killers The Secret Life of the Soil Things you can do to help improve the heath the Chesapeake Bay Using fireplace ashes in your garden Using Native Plants in Your Home Landscape Vernal Ponds: Ecosystems in Miniature Seeps: Still Water Does Not Run Deep Vitex versus Butterfly Bush Why Meadows? Welcoming Nature into the Garden What’s Old is New Again What makes a flower fragrant? Why the Chesapeake Bay needs your help Wild Geraniums Wild Violets Wildlife Friendly Yards Wildlife Ponds and Pond Care Wildflower Meadows - An Alternative to Lawns Diary of a Wildflower Garden - Year One Enjoy the Beauty of Spring Wildflowers Winterberry, A Beautiful, Multi-Use Native Plant Xerscaping - Water Wise Gardening

Garden and Landscape Design

A Bog Garden and its Habitat A Diary of a Garden A Garden with a New Car Smell A Mum By Any Other Name ... A Meadow Patch for your Yard Adding a Banana Plant to your garden Agastache - Fun to Say & a Great Plant to Grow An Easy Landscape Design An Ever-Changing Garden Annuals Complement Any Garden Annuals offer wide variety of color, shape, & foliage Architectural Gardening - Adding a Room Outdoors Attractive gardens don't just happen Beauty in the Landscape Beware – Some Plants Are Evil Bleeding Heart Building a Hops Trellis for a Beer Garden Bulbs Around The Clock Church Gardens Container and Small Space Gardening Containers bring added beauty to your garden Fall Container Gardening Top Ten Container Plants for Record breaking Hot Summer Using Flowering Vines in Your Container Gardens Cottage Gardens - the Anything Goes Garden Crazy for Red Berries Creating Garden Spaces for Cats Creating Outdoor Rooms Creating Your Own Oasis of Beauty & Tranquility Daylilies - the perfect perennial Daylilies - beauty for days Designing A Sensory Garden Designing a Shade Garden Designing Container Gardens Diary of a Wildflower Garden - Year One Edibles in the Garden Edible Landscaping Evaluating Your Garden Evaluation of 2017 Trial Garden Evening Gardens Four-Season Garden of Beauty Frequently Asked Gardening Questions Garden Accents for the Outdoor Décor! Garden Ornament, Old and New Gardening on Paper - Planning a Garden Gardening for All Seasons Gardening for the Soul Gardening in the New Year Gardening in the Shade Gardening With Microclimates Gardening with Succulents Great Plants for Fall Color Ground Covers Ground Covers...The Versatile Solution Ground Covers To The Rescue Go Naturalistic in the Garden Introduction to the Great American Garden - Yours! Hardscape in the Landscape Hardy Chrysanthemum - Fireworks for Fall Have Fun Personalizing Your Garden Hellebore – An Amazing Spring Display Herbs in the Landscape How to Garden Frugally How to Plan a Garden from Scratch Hydrangea Paniculata, Perfect Selection For a Garden Keyhole Gardening Landscaping your new home New Home Landscaping New to You Landscaping? Before you call the professionals Landscaping your winter garden Locating Plants, Garden Design 101 Low-maintenance groundcover to spruce up those barren areas Making your garden a refuge for local wildlife Mass Planting - It's Spectacular!! Master Gardeners Trial New Plants Maximize time spent to achieve a lush garden Meditation Gardens - Finding Sanctuary in the Garden Moon Garden - A Luminescent Splendor Mulch Types My 1863 Garden Ornamental Grasses Ornamental Grasses in Container Gardens Ornamental Grasses Add Grace and Movement Perennial of the Year, Brunnera macrophylla ‘Jack Frost’ Perennials with a Purpose Planning Your Spring Garden Planning for Your 2011 Garden Planning for Red Berries for Christmas Plants that honor loved ones Planting in Containers Gardening in Containers Gardening in containers is one of my favorite things to do Planting in dry shade Plants that Require Patience, but are Worth the Wait! Plant it right for healthier, long-lived plants Polyculture, a fancy term for a technique you are probably already using Poppies Aplenty Plumaria Rain Garden Hang on to Your Rain! Rain Gardens ... Chesapeake Bay? What's the Connection? Raised Bed Gardening Which Raised Bed is Best for Your Garden? The Straw Bale Raised Bed Reflecting on last year's garden and planning for next year Replacing Old Shrubbery Review and Renew Your Garden Rocks Rock! Sages and daisies, who knew? Seed Catalogs: Enticing Eye Candy or Useful Gardening Tools? Selecting Bulbs for your Spring Garden Selecting Plants for Their Fall Leaf Colors Sensory Gardens Seven questions before you start your new garden Shasta Daisies Show Off Your Horticulture Skills at the 94th South Mountain Fair Spring Bulbs and Perennials Make Perfect Companions Starting From Scratch Stretching Summer Color into Fall Shrub Border – Deciduous Shrubs Shrubs for the Winter Landscape Small space gardening Sowing Seeds on Good Soil Spring Cleaning & Gardening in April Succulents love summer heat! Summertime Outdoor Exotics Ten steps to success with Tulips The Picture Perfect Garden Fence - The Perfect Winter Project The Right Plant plus the Right Light Equals Success Theme Gardens Things we can learn from old gardens Thinking Low To The Ground: Ground Covers For A New Climate Transforming a Garden Design with Color, Texture, and Form Trees and Shrubs for Your Garden Turtlehead - A Great Addition to a Moist Garden Bed Understanding Plant Heat Zone Designations Using Caryopteris to Enhance Your Perennials Using Focal Points and Garden Art Water Gardening Water-wise Yard and Garden Care What's up with Rain Gardens? Why Meadows? Who doesn’t look forward to planting a new garden? Winter gardening Winter Indoor Armchair Gardening Winter - the best time to plan your garden! Witch hazel – A Bright Spot in the Winter Landscape Woodland Plants for Next Year Ye Olde Stumperie

Gardening Humor

An Amateur’s Guide to Plant Nomenclature A Spouse’s Guide to Garden Watering Honey, I'm not going to cut the lawn anymore

Gardening Techniques

A Good Time to Garden Build a Cold Frame in Your Garden Can Beer Make Plants Grow? Care of Flowers from Summer to Autumn for Winter! Caring for your Rose Bush's in Winter Common Gardening Mistakes Companion Planting Composting Compost Critters Composting: the Nuts and Bolts Composting is for everyone Composting Made Simple Composting the Minimalist Way! How to compost leaves Leaves are often referred to as "gardeners' gold." Using Your Compost Composting: It’s not just for tree huggers The Soil on Which We Stand When a Good Pile Goes Bad Confused by Fertilizers? Read On! Container Gardening Six Tips for Successful Container Gardens Stripes - Make Your Containers Fashionable Creative Planting Projects for Every Season! Deadhead or Not? Do’s and don’ts of bare root plants Elder Gardening Made Easier: Simple Tricks of the Trade Everything I knew about gardening I learned... Fall Garden Preperation Garden Soil Building Healthy Soil Gardening for the long term Gardening in the Shade Gardening With Microclimates Good Planting Practices Grow Your Own Plants Growing From Seed the Easier Way How much rain did we have last month? How to Garden Frugally How to Plant a Tree How to Prepare Your Soil for Planting Hydroponics Gardening – A Year-Round Gardening Experience Garden year round with hydroponics Make safety part of your gardening plan March Gardening Tips Mulching Mulching 101 Mulching for Success Mulching – More is not Always Better! Mulching Vegetable Gardens: Hay vs Straw No More Mulch Volcanoes, Please! Papering Your Garden Plant Division Plant propagation by cuttings Plant Viruses Prepare Your Garden for Winter Protecting yourself from Poison Ivy Pruning - Sear Your Plants To Get More Flowers Saving seeds – the garden harvest that keeps giving Seed Saving and Heirloom Varieties Seed Starting and the War with Rabbits Self-sowers can help fill in your garden Shade Gardening Spring Pruning Stop Vegetable Thieves Now Stratification of Seeds take 1, Take 2, Take 3 Terrariums - Nature in Miniature The effect of heat stress on plants The Secret Lives of Plant Cells Tilling 1, 2, 3 Tired of composting, weeding and fertilizing? To Cut Back or Not Cut Back...That Is the Question Turn Your Weeds into Nutrient-Rich Fertilizer Vertical Gardening – Can it be successful? Yes, it can! Watering your garden What Is Your Gardening Style? Why I Garden Winter care for backyard ponds Winter Mulching

Herbs, Vegetables and Fruits

A cost-effective way to grow vegetables from seed A No-Garden Herb Garden A Vegetable Gardener’s View of March Amazing Aloe Asparagus Backyard Fruit Gardens Beans, growing Bewitching Witchhazel Blossom End Rot on Vegetables Brussels Sprouts Calendula, Herb of the Year 2008 Consider Edibles in the Landscape Cool as a Cucumber Culinary Herb Growing 102 Culinary Uses for Lavender Dill - Herb of the Year 2010 Edible Flowers Edible Flowers – The New Rage in Haute Cuisine Echinacea: Herb of the Year 2002 Fall Crops in Your Vegetable Garden Fall into Turnips Fall Planting Potatoes Fall Vegetable Gardening Five Step Plan for Asparagus Planting For the Humble Vegetable Gardener: Some Thoughts for 2005 Frankincense and Myrrh Full of Beans Fall Vegetable Gardening Gardening with Children Garlic - It’s Not Just for Breakfast Anymore Grow It Now: Garlic Garlic 101: Reasons to Develop a Bed Garlic 104 Good Seed? Bad Seed? Great Ways to Use Herbs Growing Grapes with the Help of the Internet Growing Jerusalem Artichokes Growing Mouth Watering Carrots Growing Potatoes Fall Potato Planting Growing Tomatoes in the Home Garden Grow your own Asparagus Grow your own culinary herbs Growing your own Tomatoes Growing Vegetables and Herbs in Containers Have you ever grown 'Ground Cherries'? Harvesting your Bounty of Herbs Heirloom Vegetables and Fruits Herbs for Thanksgiving Herbs in the Landscape Herbs in Winter Horseradish, Herb of the Year 2011 How to Grow Asparagus How to Grow Hot Peppers I'm Blue for Blueberries Is it That Time Already? It’s Okay to Eat the Lavender Flowers Lavender Growing Lavender for profit I Didn’t Know There Were That Many Kinds of Lavender Lavender, 1999 Herb of the Year Lavender - Lovely But Confusing Lavenders I have known Lavender: What’s in a Name? Tender Lavender What We Learned at the Lavender Conference Lemon tree, very pretty, and the flower so sweet ... Growing Citrus Indoors Luscious Leeks Marjoram and Oregano: Herb of the Year 2005 Mint - Garden Mint More About Garlic Mulching Your Vegetables New Jersey Tea, Ceanothus americanus Nobody Doesn’t Like Basil Now is the Time for New Year's Gardening resolutions Observations from the garden One Potato, Two Potato One Potato, Two Potato How To Plant Potatoes Onions: Growing Big Onions with Little Effort Ornamental Corn Yields Fall Pleasure Potatoes Peas: Spring’s First Garden Pepper Garden - Pepper Garden Take 2 Peppers in the Flower Garden Pizzazz with Herbs! Planning Your Spring Vegetable Garden Planning for Your 2001 Vegetable Garden Planting a Fall Vegetable Garden Planting a Food Garden Plant and Raise Your Own Vegetables Planting Vegetables – It’s Not Too Late Planting Spring Crops for Fall Harvesting Prepare for Spring! Pumpkins and Their Edible Relatives Put Some Herbs in Your Landscape Raised Bed Vegetable Gardening Rosemary, Herb of the Year 2000 Sage Herb of the Year 2001 Salute to Ole King Cole Scented Geraniums--herb of the Year 2006 "Seasonings" Greetings! - Your Friend, Herb(s) Seven Mistakes Beginner Vegetable Gardeners Make Stop Vegetable Thieves Now Suggestions for this year's vegetable garden I'm Ready for Spring Sunflowers Are Funflowers Swiss Chard -- A Versatile Garden All-Star Thank the volunteers The Winter Jar Garden The Winter Windowsill Tips for Drying and Freezing Herbs Tips for Growing Herbs Indoors Today’s Colorful Vegetable Gardens Tomatoes A few tomato recipes Behold the Beloved Tomato - The Beloved Tomato - Part II "Eighth Wonder of the World" Heirloom Tomato Growing Tomatoes – An Engineer Looks at Support Design Saving Heirloom Tomato Seeds The Great Tomato Riddle Tomatoes and the Drought Tomato Plants Dry? No problem! Tomato Woes 1.87 pound tomato Try Growing Asparagus Vegetable Gardening - the Healthy Hobby Vegetable Gardening in the Time of Pandemic Victory Garden's Revisited Watermelon - Growing Watermelon Winter Care of Herb Plants Who Knew Vanilla Extract Comes From An Orchid?

House Plants

A Different Succulent for Your Indoor Garden A Careful Look at Houseplants A cost-effective way to grow flowers from seed African Violets Air Plants Amaryllis - Adventure Await Award Winning Plant Selections The Showboat of the Begonia World Bird of Paradise Plant Bringing Your Annuals Inside for the Winter Cactus and Succulents – Get Stuck on Them! Christmas Cactus – Getting Them to Bloom Decorative Sweet Potatoes as House Plants and Ground Cover Easy Houseplants to Grow Fall Container Gardening, Take 2 Take 3 Five Flowers for a Festive Season Forcing Buds for Cold Weather Color Genealogy of My Surprise Lilies Genealogy of My Surprise Lilies, Second Edition Getting Christmas Cactus to Bloom Cactus and Succulents? Get Stuck on Them! Growing and Caring for Orchids Growing Holiday Flowers Growing Houseplants Growing indoor plants Holiday & Winter Flowers Amaryllis Care After the Holidays Amaryllis, the Perfect Indoor Winter Plant Easy to grow orchids Forcing Bulbs - Forcing Fall Bulbs Getting Poinsettias & Christmas Cactus to Flower Growing Holiday Flowers Growing Orchids Have a Green Winter Hellebores for Christmas Holiday Plants How to care of for those lovely holiday plants More tips on how to Force Bulbs Poinsettia Pointers Houseplants for Clean Air Houseplants Winter Doldrums Houseplants--Your Winter Garden How to Care for Flowering Indoor Plants How to Care for Ivy Topiaries How to Force Bulbs How to get started growing orchids How to Start a Houseplant Collection Hoya Carnosa In Your Plant Collection Hybridizing Iris Making Your Own Container Soil Out of the Ordinary Fried Flower Arrangements Pet safe houseplants Plant Hoarding: When too much is not enough Plants that Stink Prepare for Spring! Popular Houseplants Potting Soils Repotting Your House Plants Spanish Moss and its relatives, the air plants Starting From Seed Seed Starting Take a Close Look at Plants Coming Inside The Fascinating World of Succulents Why We Love Lilies

Insects & Garden Pests

Ants in the Home Beware of Asian Jumping Worms! Bagworms Caterpillars & Bagworms - Mid Summer Woes How to Control Bagworms Beavers: What to Do After the Beaver Comes Bees and wasps and why they sting Brown Marmorated Stink Bug Budworm--Bad Bug Carnivorous Plants: A brief overview Controlling Spider Mites Controlling Tent Caterpillars Controlling the friendly Carpenter Bee Controlling the Hibiscus Sawflies Cool Weather and Indoor Insects Cicadas Hysteria over the cicada emergence of 2004 They're back! The 17 year cicadas are coming this year Cicadas - they’re coming! Deer Resistant Plants Don't Pick Up This Hitchhiker! Dreaded Plant Pests Fall Home Invaders Fall Webworms Fall Web Worms et. al. Fall's Unwelcome Guests Garden Pests – the 4-legged Kind! Finding Those Winter Garden Pests Green June Beetles Gypsy Moths I lost a caterpillar in my car Identifying Insect Damage Insects can be found just about everywhere Integrated Pest Management Integrated Pest Management - Take II IPM: A best practice for gardeners Invasive Insect Update Japanese beetles Controlling Japanese Beetles Controlling Japanese Beetles Without Use of Chemicals How to control Japanese beetles Keeping Rabbits Out of Your Garden Lanternfly Moles and Voles: Which is which? Who is to blame? Moles, Voles and Holes Mosquitoes and the West Nile Virus New Invasive Insect – The Spotted Lanternfly Nothin'll Grow There - Because of Zorro!!! Pesky Pantry Pests Pondering a Pollinator Garden? Slugs in the Garden Dealing with Slugs in Your Garden Small insects with big effects Sooty Mold Stink Bugs Eradicating Stink Bugs! Stinkbug Explosion! Stink Bug Warriors: Reports from the Frontlines Summer Pests in the Garden Key Summer Pests in the Landscape & Garden What about those summer bugs? Reducing Deer Damage in Your Garden Take a Close Look at Plants Coming Inside Termites, Mulching Trees and the Ticks and Related Problems What You Need to Know About Ticks The Effect of Urban Sprawl on Wildlife and Home Gardening Urban Legend Vole Damage & Control What's Going on in the Garden?

Lawn Care & Weed Control

Broadleaf Weed Control Controlling Broadleaf Weed in Lawns Confessions of a sidewalk weed whipper Effective Weed Control for Your Garden Late Summer - Time to Seed Your Lawn Lawn repairs for beginners Lythrum - A Noxious Weed Fall Lawn Fertilization Hairy Bittercress How to Properly Overseed Your Lawn How to Read a Pesticide Label Invasive Buttercup Making Spring lawns look great Mid Summer Weeds in the Lawn Native plants better, cheaper than lawns Our 98% organic lawn Poison Hemlock Purslane – The Super Weed Say no to weeds Springtime Weeds Summer Lawn care The Art of Growing Weeds The Hidden Side Effects of Chemical Weed Killers Weeds Can Communicate What Weeds Have to Say! Wildflower Meadows - An Alternative to Lawns

Plants & Gardens

A chapter in the book of "A Gardener’s Life" A Perennial Primer A quick primer on growing roses What’s Killing the Roses? A Visit to the Desert in Bloom A vote in favor of Lamb’s Ears Adding late-season color to perennial beds Alliums a Perfect Solution to that In-between Time Alliums add pizzazz to your garden Amazing Hellebores An ever-changing garden Canna Lilies - Care & Winterization Chrysanthemums are one of my favorite perennials Community Gardens – Are You Interested? Container Gardening Container and Small Space Gardening Planting in Containers Keeping Containers Happy and Healthy Daffodil – plant of the month Deer Resistant Plants Dreaming of Spring: Seed Starting Earliest Bloomers to Tempt You Echinaceas - A must-have in every garden! Encouraging Children in the Garden FAQs About Spring Blooming Bulbs Flowers suitable for window flower boxes Four Leaf Clover Gardening for a purpose Gardening In Alaska Gardening in the Glorious Month of May Growing Azaleas Hardy Chrysanthemum - Fireworks for Fall Hardy Geraniums Have You Shared Any Good Plants Lately? Heirloom Plants - Growing a Piece of the Past Herbaceous Perennials Hibiscus Sawflies Hooked on Perennials Hostas How Plants Move It's Time It's Time to Plan the Winter Garden Keeping the Past Alive Through Plants Lacecap Hydrangeas – A Tapestry of Beauty Late Summer Bloom Lavender March Gardening Tips Millennials and Their Horticultural Practices Miniature Roses More tips on how to Force Bulbs Pansies and their Companions The Perennial Plant of the Year™ Program – Selecting for Success Perennial sunflowers Perennials for Beginners Planting Bulbs for Spring Color Plants for Jazzing Up A Yard With Fall Colors Plants that are interesting in the winter landscape Plants that Require Patience, but are Worth the Wait! Plants that thrive in moist and shady conditions Pondering a Pollinator Garden? Poppies Aplenty Positively Picture-perfect Fall Garden Prepare for Spring! Preparing a Sunny Wildflower Garden Preserve Summer Flowers to Keep Everlasting Color All Winter Raising Dahlias Roses A Rose for Every Garden Tips for caring for your roses Lo, How a Rose Rudbeckia – the Yellow Star of the summer Sages and daisies, who knew? Selecting Bulbs for your Spring Garden Selecting the Best Plants for Planters Shrub Border – Deciduous Shrubs Singing (and Planting) the Blues Skunk Cabbage: The Harbinger of Spring Some Sage Advice about Salvias Spring Cleaning & Gardening in April Starting Seeds Indoors Stocking up for the Spring Season Summer Perennials - A Splash of Color! Talk to the Annuals Techniques for a healthy, productive organic garden Testing Seeds for Germination The Art of Growing Weeds The Garden as Catechism The Oakleaf Hydrangea - A Shrub for Three Seasons The Petunia - Old Standby or New Favorite? Things to do with the abundance of flowers in your garden Think Spring. Plant Spring Bulbs Now Valentine Roses What do you do for fall color? What the Phlox? Wet Weather and Your Garden Wild Geraniums Who doesn’t look forward to planting a new garden? Your Grandmother's Garden Yellow colors in the garden

Shrubs and Vines

Annual Vines Caring for Rhododendrons Colorful Climbing Clematis End of Spring care for Junipers, Leylands and Hollies Fall Shrubs Hedgerows and Hedges: Then and Now How to care for Hydrangeas Why Won't My Hydrangeas Bloom? How to Grow and Care for Clematis Ornamental Vines Reasons flowering shrubs don’t bloom Replacing Old Shrubbery Spring Blooming Shrubs & Trees for Small Gardens Shrubs for the winter landscape Small Changes Can Improve Your Home's Curb Appeal The Right Time to Prune Trees and Shrubs. The Shrub Border – Deciduous Shrubs Using Caryopteris to Enhance Your Perennials Vines: the Gymnasts of the Garden

Trees

#1 Pest of Hemlock 10 Myths About Trees A Different Kind of Tree Book A Texas Chainsaw Massacre—on Trees Alternate Bearing Trees, or Where Have All The Acorns Gone? Annual pruning fruit trees Assessing Winter Injury to Trees and Shrubs Backyard-sized Fruit Tree Guild Cabin Fever Can you Grow Pecans in Southern Adams County? Caring for tress damaged in a storm Combating Sooty Mold and Scale in Tulip Trees Diagnosis of Deciduous Trees End of Spring care for Junipers, Leylands and Hollies Fall Shade Tree Planting Favorite Trees of Distinction America’s Rarest Tree: a History of the Franklinia Tree Growing Japanese Maple Trees Growing Nuts for Food and Fun Growing Pecans Trees in South Central Pennsylvania Choosing Pecan Varieties for South Central Pennsylvania Hanover's Special Trees How to (and not to) graft pecan trees How to force flowers indoors on cut branches How to Plant a Tree How winter snows and storms effect trees & gardens Johnny Appleseed Leaf Galls & Cicadas Legend of the Dove Tree Lemon tree, very pretty, and the flower so sweet ... Growing Citrus Indoors Maple Sugaring: Native American Lore and History Mulching your trees My iPhone Gardening Apps Oak Trees - Do You Have an Oak Tree in your Yard? Pecans and Global Warming Planting A Tree? Consider A Native Redbud festival, redbud feast The Many Benefits Of Trees The versatile poplar tree Pruning Crepe Myrtles Relax and Enjoy a Crepe Seeing the Forest in a New Light Selecting Native Trees for Your Yard Selecting Plants for Their Fall Leaf Colors Shopping for the Right Tree Snags: A Wildlife Paradise Sudden Oak Death Summer Flowering Trees Sycamore - For those who are looking... The American Pawpaw The Beauty of Birches The Demise of the American Chestnut The giving tree The Loss of the Blue Atlas Cedar The Mighty White Oak The Pros & Cons of Bradford Pears The Right Time to Prune Trees and Shrubs The Science Behind the Colors of Fall Topping Trees is Not Acceptable Pruning Technique Tree Topping – Please Don’t! Trees and communication: Not so silent witnesses Trees for the Winter Landscape Trees and shrubs for the winter landscape Tree Infections: the Continuing Battle The Tulip Tree Varieties of Christmas Trees When and how to prune an evergreen When and how to prune trees and shrubs Who Spit on My Trees Wonderful Shade Trees

Misc

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