To keep things simple, I’ll present these Christmas gift ideas in list fashion. Each item is linked to pictures and a location where it can be purchased.

Garden Journal- to keep track of those important and noteworthy garden happenings
Wall Tattoos - for indoor garden enjoyment all year round
Shufflers- a new take on the old [...]

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There are two things that I take with me practically everywhere I go - my digital camera and my garden shears. Last weekend the garden shears saw a lot of action. While visiting at a friend’s home in the country, I harvested a ton of greenery, red dogwood branches and grapevine. My [...]

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It’s been a crazy weather week here in Ontario, Canada - one day bright and sunny, one day raining and now we have snow! It’s a good thing I finally got around to building the shrub frames I talked about way back in Essential Fall Yard & Garden Maintenance. Yes, I put on [...]

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Shady Gardener has tagged me for a meme! I have no experience with these things and I’m a little nervous, but I’m game to give it a shot.
First things first, here are…
The Rules
When tagged, you must link to the person who tagged you, then post the rules before your list, and list [...]

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We’re barely out of fall gardening and already we’re longing for spring. Forcing bulbs into blooming indoors is a pleasant way for gardeners to keep their hands in the dirt and survive the long winter while waiting for spring. (Why not start a pot for someone on your Christmas gift list?)
Choose any of [...]

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Do you have gardeners on your Christmas gift list? Put together a gift package with a garden theme!
Before all the gardening stuff disappears from the store shelves to make room for sleds and snow shovels, pick up a some special things to include in a gift package for your favorite gardener.
Here are [...]

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Pruning shrubs, bushes and vines is easiest after the fall winds have blown all the leaves off. Use your hand prunersto cut out some of those overcrowded or overgrown branches. But wait, don’t just toss those pieces of shrubs and vines in the garbage or on the compost pile - recycle and reuse [...]

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Well, I was busily attending to those essential fall yard & garden maintenance items, but I hit a few kinks in the proverbial hose. While attempting to clean the gutters and downspouts I discovered blockages. Blockages! A lovely build-up of leaves and roof gunk in the elbows of the downspouts. The [...]

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The weather this past weekend has been perfect for working on outside chores. Nine large leaf bags later and the yard is free of leaves (at least until more blow in). Any leaves that come into the yard from this point on will be raked onto the garden beds to act as mulch, [...]

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