Low Maintenance Gardening Ideas: Essential Tips

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The blueberries and raspberries are hanging thickly on their branches, waiting to be picked, and the radish row is starting to go to seed. It is the time of the summer when I am often hit hard with GARDEN GUILT (it’s much more ominous when the words are written in capital letters). I have a … Read more

Old Garden Roses: An Easy-Care Alternative to Hybrid Teas

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High-maintenance plants do not thrive in our garden. As I wrote in a previous post about our new dahlia bed, we removed our hybrid tea roses a few years ago because they were suffering. They suffered from powdery mildew and black spot. They also provided the local deer with a lovely buffet. I don’t have … Read more

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