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How and When to Prune Roses
Pruning rose bushes is intimidating to many gardeners, but actually very good for the plants. Becoming an accomplished rose pruner takes time and practice, but keep in mind that it is very hard to kill a rose with bad pruning. Here are some basic rose pruning guidelines for use in your rose garden.

Gardening Made Easy
Gardening easier means you can garden more. Use these smart gardening tips to make your gardening chores and maintenance less time- and labor-consuming, and make your time in the garden more enjoyable.

Spring Lawn Care
Spring grass care is as much about weed prevention as it is about fostering healthy lawn growth. Novices to spring grass care are often surprised to learn that not all lawn weeds are battled in the same manner.

Vegetable Gardens for Small Spaces
You don't need a lot of space or time to savor the flavor of home-grown vegetables. There are so many vegetable varieties that have been bred to grow in small spaces that container vegetable gardening is easier and more convenient than ever.

How to Start a New Garden
No garden is maintenance free. The amount of work a garden requires depends on how well you've started your garden and what plants you've chosen.

Garden Design Principles
Garden design is often broken down into design principles: Order/Balance/Proportion, Harmony or Unity and Flow, Transition or Rhythm. These categories contain the basic elements that, when combined together, constitute the generally accepted version of good garden design.

How to Work Color Into Your Garden
There may be only 12 colors on the color wheel, but blending and shading can create countless options in nature and in your garden design. Hue, value and intensity are the keys to taking a garden from pleasing to artful. They guide the eye and tighten the focus.

How to Choose Plants for a Small Garden
The amount of plants and the variety of plants used in a small space garden can either make it took chaotic and poorly designed or cohesive and grand. Designing a small garden takes some careful editing and a good choice of plants.

How to Start Plants From Cuttings
House and garden stem cuttings potted in a soilless planting mix will begin to grow new roots and propagate new plants.

How to Start Plants From Seed
Look for signs of the first true leaves on your seedlings to know when to start feeding the young plants.

Plan a Water-Wise Garden
Here are the seven principles of xeriscape gardening first laid out back in the 1970s. They are basically common sense gardening, and they still apply today.

Landscape Design Ideas
Need landscape design ideas for your own yard? Study these photos illustrating landscape design ideas and learn about the concepts the pros employ.

How-To Landscaping Videos
Need some how-to guides to explain landscaping chores? Consult these how-to landscaping videos.

Tips for DIY Landscaping
Read these tips for do-it-yourself landscaping and have yard with a professional-level design. These tips for do-it-yourself landscaping are geared to beginners.

Low-Maintenance Landscaping
Check out these 10 tips to take to heart if you're serious about low-maintenance landscaping. Since watering plants can be time-consuming, a big part of low-maintenance landscaping is properly managing your plants' water needs.

Install French Drains for Yard Drainage
Installing French drains is one option for providing yard drainage on properties where there is excessive moisture. The wetness from saturated soil on a slope can be re-routed to an area less harmful to the homeowner using French drains as a yard drainage solution.

10 Mistakes to Avoid in Home Landscape Design
Success in home landscape design for do-it-yourselfers is certainly possible, but there are some pitfalls that should be avoided if maximum satisfaction is to be attained. Thus the need for this list of 10 mistakes to be avoided in home landscape design.

How to Landscape With Dogs
Landscaping with dogs requires serious compromises. Strategies for landscaping with dogs may force you to alter plans that you would otherwise have for your yard, for instance, avoiding extensive lawns that will only be stained by their urine.

Kid's Project: How to Grow Names on Fruit
A easy and fun gardening project for kids is growing their names on the face of fruits.

Portable Gardens for Kids
To make gardening fun and accessible to kids, you need to make it personal. This is a gardening project from my local 4H organization that you can easily do with your own little clover buds. Garden in a Bucket lets kids create a personal, private garden that they can take with them, take care of, show off, and enjoy.

How to Dry Flowers
Check out this easy method for drying flowers. It's also a great how-to project for children of all ages.

How to Plant Flower Beds
See how to plant flower beds, so you can enjoy colorful blooms year-round.

List of Flowers and Foliage Plants
These plant lists introduce beginners to the different types of flowers and foliage plants suitable to grow under particular landscape conditions. Whether you're planting in sun or shade, in wet or dry conditions, you need to know which types of flowers will thrive there.