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Berberis bonsai grown from stump of a larger shrub.

Barberry bonsai, how to grow one from scratch

Special reports
Hard pruning lavender

Hard pruning of lavender, a three-year task

Garden Flowers
Layering lavender

Layering lavender, a great way to propagate lavender

Garden Flowers
Woody lavender pruning

How to prune lavender that is woody

Garden Flowers
How to plant a tree or shrub

How to plant a tree or shrub

Trees and shrubs
Plum facts

Plum, a sweet delicacy: key facts and origin

The fruit Orchard
Winter crops

Stock the pantry with winter vegetables

The Vegetable Patch
Saxifrage

Saxifrage (Saxifraga), advice on caring for it

Perennials
Yarrow

Yarrow, an easy herb

Herbs and spices
main squash varieties

Scores of squash! Discover the most surprising varieties

The Vegetable Patch
Ground cover plants

Ground cover plants, no more mowing!

Lawn Care
How to minimize lawn care

To reduce lawn care…

Lawn Care
provide insect bird animals with shelter

Provide small animals, insects and birds with shelter

Special reports
Raised incredible edible garden bed in a city

Incredible edible, new urban vegetable patches

Special reports
small japanese garden ideas

Japanese inspiration for the garden

Special reports
Husks and hulls of Sichuan pepper with slight infection.

Sichuan pepper regulations – common sense prevails!

Special reports
A plate with molding food like apples, prunes and tomato.

Avoiding mold on food

Treating diseases and pests
A robin bird in a mahonia tree, an example of the many mahonia benefits

Mahonia benefits for house, health & more

Special reports
Harvesting mahonia

Harvesting Mahonia berries – easy but watch for stains

Special reports
The mahonia berry, with seeds, fruit and leaves.

Mahonia berry – sweet & tart, best after freezing!

Special reports
Mahonia eurybracteata

Mahonia eurybracteata, a yellow-blooming fall shrub

Garden Flowers
Mahonia soft caress

Mahonia Soft Caress, fern-like leaves for a Japanese garden

Garden Flowers
Lavandula latifolia

Lavandula latifolia, the broad-leaved lavender

Garden Flowers
A full panicle of spike lavender flowers close-up, slightly dried.

Spike lavender, the lavender for wild rock gardens

Perennials
Make poinsettia red

Poinsettia, start right now to make it turn red again

Flowering houseplants
Primrose - Primula

Primrose, one of the first to bloom!

Perennials
Peperomia

Peperomia, a houseplant noted for its foliage

Foliage houseplants
Caladium

Caladium, flashy colorful leafage

Foliage houseplants
Mulch, a winter protection, under a soapbush shrub

Protect easily your garden from the cold

Special reports
Chrysalidocarpus plant

Chrysalidocarpus, advice and care

Indoor plants
Fuchsia fulgens

Fuchsia fulgens, beautiful carmine flowers

Garden Flowers
fushia

Fushia vs Fuchsia, spelling for this garden flower shrub

Garden Flowers
Reduce transplant shock

Minimizing transplant shock – tips & tricks to make sure your plant survives

Treating diseases and pests
Evergreen laurel

Laurel, evergreen species for greenery in winter 

Shrubs
Flax mulch

Flax mulch, one of the brightest plant mulches for the garden

Special reports
Pygmy date palm

Pygmy date palm, a true indoor palm tree

Indoor plants
Elder, sambucus nigra, flower

Black elder, known for its fruits

Shrubs
cestrum

Cestrum, a shrub with fragrant hanging flowers

Shrubs
Two hemerocallis flowers on a single stem

Hemerocallis, an exceptional perennial bulb

Perennials
Soft scale insect on a ZZ plant

Scale on ZZ plant – keep sap-sucking bugs from infecting your Zamioculcas!

Treating diseases and pests
Lavender wand, lavender wad

Lavender wand, how to make this scented ornament

Gardening
Turnip-rooted chervil tubers ready to sprout

Turnip-rooted chervil, how to grow it

The Vegetable Patch
Snowberry, symphoricarpos

Snowberry, the pearl tree

Shrubs
English vs French lavender

English vs French lavender, which is best?

Perennials
Stalks of lavender flowers with a white background.

Get the name of each lavender right: scientific names for English, French, Spanish…

Perennials
Roots exposed on a plant during transplanting

Transplant damage – protect your plant & avoid wounds

Treating diseases and pests
how to prepare your own root dip

Root dip – how to prepare your own root dip

Special reports
A field completely covered in purple Lavandula stoechas flowers.

Lavandula stoechas, the ornamental lavender

Gardening
Seeds from the Stephanotis vine

Stephanotis seeds – a fruit pod packed with surprises

Climbing plants
Properly pruned stephanotis blooming before a brick wall.

Pruning stephanotis – timing, tools, technique & tips!

Climbing plants
fern

Abundant ferns, excellent landscapers for shade

Garden Flowers