Yard & Garden

Magazine articles on gardening and yard work.

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National Gardening	Building a Water Garden Here are instructions for planning, building and planting a water garden.
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi	Gardening Trends: 2005 Personalized, signature gardens... Finished plants, containers and accessories... Tropical plants indoors... etc.
National Gardening Pam Peirce	A Recycler's Garden Recycled building materials are generally cheaper to purchase than new ones, or you may have some around already. Here's how to artfully incorporate recycled materials into garden design.
National Gardening Jim Wilson	Have You Hugged a Snake Today The best place to start developing an accepting attitude toward snakes is with the children and grandchildren of gardeners. Who else stands to benefit more from the consumption of rodents and insects by various snakes?
National Gardening	Tarnished Plant Bug Called "tarnished" for its brown-coppery color, this otherwise unassuming little bug is a major pest, especially for commercial growers.
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi	Shopper's Guide to Bark Mulch The advantages of using organic mulch to blanket soil around trees, shrubs, and perennial plants are many. This article explores the kinds of bark mulches you can buy and their advantages and disadvantages.
National Gardening	Oriental Poppy Sporting huge, cup-shaped blooms in early summer, the Oriental poppy is the most striking of the perennial poppies, and the delicate, papery flowers belie the plant's hardiness and durability. But you should still heed these tips.
National Gardening	Small Fruits & Berries 101 Compared with apples, peaches or any of the tree fruits, bush and bramble fruits are easy to grow. They rarely require spraying for pests and begin bearing some fruit the year after you plant them.
National Gardening	Maintaining Container Gardens These simple maintenance tasks will keep keep your patio planters and window boxes looking their best throughout the growing season and help cold-climate gardeners prepare for winter.
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi	Disabled Workers Distribute Free Plants An professional garden photographer started a nonprofit web business to help disabled residents work and to help send unwanted plants all over the country.
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