Topic: Better Homes & Gardens Magazine
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Hybrid catmints: Cool cats in your landscape
Prolific blossoms, fragrant leaves, and cold-hardiness make catmint a perfect plant for almost any garden.
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Pollination power in the garden
Attract hummingbirds, butterflies, and mason bees to your garden because they're excellent pollinators.
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Moss rocks
Cute little ceramic 'rocks' with live moss make fun gifts as well as educational.
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Garden design: A guide to curb appeal
A guide to giving your yard curb appeal that expresses your personality.
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An attractive fall wreath starts with a disliked vegetable
You don't have to like to eat okra to find it useful. Okra has beautiful flowers, and its dried pods are great in crafts, especially on fall wreaths.
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Is it time to try something new in the garden?
Are you in a gardening rut? Then it's time to explore something you haven't done before -- maybe floral design.
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How one gardener deals with weeds in the lawn
When your lawn is invaded by nutsedge, oxalis, and other weeds, what do you do? One gardener picks her battles.
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Break with tradition: Have a pink and red fall garden.
Orange and yellow may be the traditional colors of fall flowers, but other combinations, such as pink and red, are especially eye-catching.
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Flower arranging made simple with flea market finds
Looking for an easy way to enjoy your garden flowers indoors? Head to the nearest flea market.
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Hakone grass: A cascading ornamental grass brightens the garden
Nothing brightens the shady spots in a garden better than cascading Hakone grass, also known as Japanese forest grass.
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A Southern garden thrives in the heat
The right choice of plants is essential when you want them to thrive in a hot Southern summer.
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A welcoming dooryard garden
An attractive dooryard garden doesn’t have to be complicated, expensive, or time-consuming. Ditch the dull foundation shrubs and create a good-looking garden by the front door.
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Why I became a rock gardener
A new rock gardener succumbs to the appeal of tiny plants.
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The Vote
No debt-ceiling talk here: Michelle Obama on Better Homes and Gardens cover
Michelle Obama talks about her 'Let's Move!' initiative and the White House's 'kitchen garden' in the August issue of Better Homes and Gardens, but the cover shot may be all that’s needed.
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A visit to a slave garden
Near Tarrytown, N.Y., Philipsburg Manor re-creates a slave garden that shows how slaves in the 1700s grew food for themselves and to sell.
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How to create yard art in five easy steps
Anyone can easily create one-of-a-kind yard art or accents to add whimsy and individuality to a yard.
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Garden art: Beyond cute concrete critters
A gardener trades concrete bunnies for one-of-a-kind handmade garden art.
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Garden design: Solutions for improving side yards
How one gardener turned a small horticultural wasteland into a delightful part of the yard.
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Touring the gardens of Kykuit can make you feel 'rich as Rockefeller'
In New York's Hudson Valley, the gardens of the Rockefellers' Kykuit estate can enrich your gardening experience.
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Give a landscape time to mature
A gardener learns that a well-designed landscape just needs time to grow and look its best. Continual tinkering doesn't help.
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Is hardy gloxinia making a comeback?
Hardy gloxinia was popular in the past, but fell out of fashion for some reason. Maybe now's the time for this attractive plant to make a comeback in American gardens.
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Three outstanding spring plants for the shade garden
A trio of woodland wonders thrives in a Midwest shade garden.
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How not to read a gardening magazine
If yout want to learn more about gardening from reading glossy magazines, both the photos and the articles matter.
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Six tips for creating a cozy garden hideaway in your yard
You'll really enjoy relaxing outdoors when you create a cozy hideaway in your yard. Here are six tips to make your planning become reality.
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Fragrance in the garden
Fragrance affects our memories of gardens.
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