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Kharla Jolly @kobesbuddy (78833) • East Tawas, Michigan 10 Jul 23

If anyone knows what type of flower this is, please let me know. It's very pretty, white buds with shades of light blue on the outer edges. I'm not a flower person, even though I do enjoy their beauty. And I can recognize about...

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English Daisy

fishtiger58 @fishtiger58 (29819) • Momence, Illinois 2 May 16

Oh so beautiful. As some of you know I went to the huge garden center just north of my town at the end of last week. It's rainy and muddy out there so we haven't planted all the flowers and vegetables we bought. But I wanted to...

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The Creeping Phlox Is Creeping

fishtiger58 @fishtiger58 (29819) • Momence, Illinois 25 Apr 16

I love Phlox. It's such a pretty delicate flower. But looks can be deceiving. One year my sister in law was visiting from Oregon. She had brought us a small container of creeping Phlox in a deep pink color. They were alive when...

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New Use For a Skateboard

Alice Henry @IreneVincent (15960) • United States 1 Apr 16

This friend of mine, who is a gardener was giving me some gardening tips, because I need to redo my flower beds along the sidewalk to my front door. Two tips she gave me among many, I wanted to share with you. First of all, I...

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Spring Brings Me Outside

Irene Nevins @irenen1 (228) • New Bedford, Massachusetts 30 Mar 16

As the weather gets warmer I am drawn to the outside and my garden. It is a spiritual as well as physical thing with me. Right now there are hostas in the flower bed that I'm cleaning out and refurbishing. There are so many...

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Saving on watering the flower beds

webeishere @webeishere (36313) • United States 10 Apr 10

Great sale bargain at Home Depot the last 3 days. They had Cyprus Mulch, 2 Cu Ft bags at $3.75 a bag and it was buy one get one free a limit of 20. So it comes out to be $1.37 a bag. So we bought 20 bags for the flower beds etc....

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Clean Up

webeishere @webeishere (36313) • United States 17 Mar 10

Well this photo shows some of my flower beds I started to clean up today. This area goes all the way to the green garbage cans. 4 different areas in all. Raked up the old mulch, weeded some, as well as dug up around the flowers...

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Spring To Do List

webeishere @webeishere (36313) • United States 23 Mar 09

Now that is upon us we all have many things to do preparing for the spring/summer months. This shot shows one chore I got done recently on my to do list. I replaced all the batteries in my solar powered lights. These are on my...

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Cool Idea to help water flower beds and recycle plastic!

coffeebreak @coffeebreak (17797) • United States 6 Jun 08

This is really cool. I am watching DIY and they had a short clip about how to help watering outdoor flower beds. I don't have any, but it was the coolest idea I thought I'd share Get a 2 liter plastic bottle (like a soda...

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Strawberry Protector?

webeishere @webeishere (36313) • United States 6 May 08

I recently purchased a few statuettes/lawn ornaments at an auction. The wife asked if she could have the bunny and squirrel today to set in the garden. I laughed saying, that's what they're for no need to ask. Well this is out...

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What are some good borders for a flower bed?

dragon54u @dragon54u (31633) • United States 30 Apr 08

I'd like to put some flowers in front of the garage that's behind my house. I can see it out my window right now and thought it'd be so nice to have some flowers there! I need a border to protect it from the lawnmower and to deter...

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Post pictures of your flowerbeds here! I just finished mine...

mehale @mehale (2200) • United States 21 Feb 08

As soon as it quits raining I will get some pictures of our newly built and planted flower beds around the front of our new house. We finished the house the end of summer last year, but it was too late to put in flower beds so I...

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How much time do you spend in the garden?

patootie @patootie (3592) 24 Jan 07

Does your house have a garden (or yard as I think it's called in America?) .. do you like gardening or do you just prefer to sit out and relax in the garden .. ?? I used to love working in the garden, making things tidy and...

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Are there any gardeners here?

Truewater2 @Truewater2 (322) • United States 6 Nov 06

Now that summer is officially over and we are fast approaching the winter season here in the U.S., my thoughts have turned to planning a garden. My appetite to garden will be fueled when the gardening catalogs start appearing in...

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