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10 Reasons to Love a Tiny Garden

Small outdoor spaces can have a beauty all their own

Grow your own jungle: easy exotic plants

Tropical gardening is all too often associated with expense and poor results. But choose your plants wisely and you can turn your patch into a slice of verdant jungle, says James Wong

Why is It Important To Use Mulch In Landscapes and gardens?

Mulch will help your garden become healthier and resistant to diseases. Mulch helps protect the soil from the sun which helps prevent evaporation of water.

How Pine Needles Help the Garden

6 reasons to use pine needle mulch. Tilling pine needles into the garden. Using pine needles as mulch in the vegetable garden. What plants do not like pine needles. Pine straw mulch pros and cons. 11_

Two Green Thumbs Miniature Garden Center

Miniature garden trees, plants, supplies, DIY Kits, ideas for gardening in miniature. Realistic miniature accessories for the dollhouse garden and fairy garden.

6 Ways To Fertilize Your Garden With Herbs

We use herbs for nutrition and health but don't often consider that they can be used as a fertilizer. Here's how you can fertilize your garden with herbs.

Your Garden: 6 Fragrant Plants Surprise and Delight

Enchant the senses and enliven your landscape with scented foliage that goes beyond everyday florals

15 Money-Saving Tips from a Frugal Gardener

Check out these great money-saving tips from a frugal gardener including reusing kitchen scraps for a soil boost and starting your own seeds!

Get started in your garden

Foundation plantings – usually evergreen shrubs – have always had a reputation for being boring. To make matters worse, many of the South’s go-to choices are now also suffering from a host of disease and insect problems. Luckily, there are several new introductions that make fantastic, low-maintenance substitutions with similar growth habits. Some even offer…

Grow Your Own Salsa Garden / Armstrong Garden Centers

Happy Cinco de Mayo!! Grow your own salsa garden at home to celebrate for the rest of the summer! Even in the smallest spaces you can grow your own salsa garden in a container. We'll show you how in 5 easy steps.

5 Tips for a First Time Gardener

From considering climate to feeding your plants, here are 5 tips for a first time gardener.

Add Fragrant Stock to Your Flower Garden

Welcome the scent of spicy stock to your cool season flower garden.

Great gifts for gardeners: Tools, plants and knowledge

From gardening gloves and houseplants to roses, there is something here for everyone

Planting season is here!

Listening to the community is a very important part of the planning process. Your comments will be used to help establish goals for the County. We want to gather your opinions, thoughts and ideas about the County and its future. Fill out the Comprehensive Plan SurveyFree program for the public with pre-registration in which gardeners of all levels of experience can join in. This will be the first of six sessions geared towards "Getting the most of your Garden. Read more .

Flower power: six ways to preserve or present summer blossoms

Hong Kong florists and artisans share tips for making the most of flowers' fleeting beauty, from using them for phone cases, jewellery and headpieces to eating them

Garden stuff we love

Native Plants and Wildlife Gardens

Dimpled trout lilies (Erythronium umbilicatum) are a spring ephemeral and most of the year they are hardly noticeable on the forest floor....