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8 of 10 Ways to Spruce Up Your Garden for Spring

By Lorraine • Mar 29th, 2010 • Category: Dig in, Spring

8.Clean tools and pots
Skip this task if you were good and cleaned, sharpened and oiled your shovels, secateurs and spades last fall. For those of us who put it off till spring, unearth abandoned gardening tools and forsaken containers, and clean them up so they’re ready for another season.


A Cornucopia of Plants for Fall Containers

By Lorraine • Oct 13th, 2008 • Category: Containers Forever, Style

With fall in the air, all gardeners’ thoughts turn to autumn planters – right? Like opening the closet to examine the state of our fall wardrobes, planning a container of autumn plants signals the change of season from the fun, but toasty days of summer, to the energizingly crisp cool days of fall.
Each year it [...]