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Don't forget leaves when you look to create a big impact in your landscape. Many plants have leaves that look good, even when not in bloom.

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Preparing Your Garden for Winter

Preparing Your Garden for Winter

the fallen leaves to mulch neaten the garden and remove or chopped leaves . This protects commercial tree -guard products mulch 1. Tree roses, or shredded dry leaves . The rose fragrant ' Garden Party and fruity fragrance ; also a conditioner -- leaf mold

Creating Colorful Foliage Gardens

Creating Colorful Foliage Gardens

design, leaves assume equally Two-tone leaves are bicolored patterned leaves are variegated their showy leaves . Adequate gold-tone leaf has become spring. Most tree and shrub a large- leaf perennial out in a garden 's design lungwort. Gray leaves cast a violet

Garden Notes: Question of the Week

Garden Notes: Question of the Week

no green leaves emerging speckled leaves and flowers plants from leaf cuttings develop on the leaf cutting in until new leaves form to pot your yard or garden in our database when their leaves get full your yard or garden in our database lovely small tree bears beautiful Fine- leaf fescue Answer: Fragrance is subjective

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Grow a Fragrant Windowsill Spa

Grow a Fragrant Windowsill Spa

Try growing scented geraniums on your kitchen counter or windowsill. These alluring houseplants put the scents of lemon, lime, rose, cinnamon, and even chocolate at your fingertips. Just pinch a leaf to release relaxing fragrance .

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not in the bloom, which you might first think. It's in the leaf . So you wanna give the leaves a nice little pinch or a rub and that will release the scent onto your hand and into the air. They do
A Natural Theme for the Holidays

A Natural Theme for the Holidays

Better Homes and Gardens designers were inspired by nature when decorating Washington, D.C.'s Blair House for the holidays.

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decorating indoors and out for the holidays. Inside this historic home a garden scene unified the Christmas decor in the front and back parlors and the home's courtyard. A mix of fresh evergreens warmed each room as reeds, scablands and miniature stand up trees. Frigs of greenery pepper the room with tints of the holiday when tucked into flower arrangements and table top decor. Tom [unk] add orbs of bright color to table tops and mantles while ornaments and similar hues of coral, wine, bright [unk] and coppery red echo the fruit shape and color on the glittery Christmas tree . The towering tree holds court in the rear parlor's bay window and looks out over the courtyard. Here, golden garlands wrap the tree in glittering ropes of leaf . Beneath the tree a sea of poinsettias wraps the base of the tree in coral color blossoms. In the courtyard, garden elements are always present but the holiday items used to decorate this al fresco living space bring in natural elements that echo those used inside. Here, fox wood reeves and garlands along with branches of southern magnolia give the courtyard a warm base of green on which [unk]. Branches blooming with red winter berry offer bright color and round shapes, a miniature version of the pomegranate used inside instead of delicate ornaments. Round shapes are repeated throughout the garden with stainless steel balls of various sizes, peppered among plantings on table tops in the [unk] and along the ground. In the trees the air comes alive with airy wire balls dangling from berry tree branches and dancing in the wind. With the repetition of color and shape, it's easy to carry a nature inspired holiday theme
Preserving Leaves for Crafts

Preserving Leaves for Crafts

Wish you could keep the fabulous flashes of fall color around a little longer? Use this easy technique to preserve fall leaves for crafts.

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weeks. If you wanna preserve for an extra pop of colors individual leaves , you can do the same thing. Just insert your leaves into the glycerin solution and let them wait. If you wanna add even more color to your leaves , throw in a couple of drops of food coloring. The red food coloring will be absorbed by the stems into the leaves giving them even more vibrant color. I'm Justin Hancock and that's your test garden tip.
having a great fall here in the Better Homes and Gardens test garden and I have a tip for you to preserve fall color for your garden decorating projects. You can take branches of your favorite fall leaves ; like here, we have a maple, and insert them into a glycerin solution. To do it, make a solution of 2 parts
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Power Up!

Power Up!

essential for tree maintenance an electric leaf blower. Look lightweight. Test Garden Tip: For vacuum and leaf shredder attachments cord. Test Garden Tip: Think pinecones, wet leaves , or dense chipper or leaf shredder

Start a Chocolate Garden

Start a Chocolate Garden

foliage: The leaves are a rich your shade garden with this to your garden . It bears chocolate-tan leaves . It makes contrast in the garden . Name Note: This tree has invasive refreshing minty fragrance . While it purple four- leaf clover

Small-Garden Plans

Small-Garden Plans

With a garden like this foolproof shade garden is attractive striking leaves of hosta that the garden is attractive trunked tree may be used flowers and fragrance and the invitation The redbud tree provides scented- leaf geraniums

Garden Plants with a Tropical Flair

Garden Plants with a Tropical Flair

color. Their leaves sport various heart-shape leaves that are These massive leaves sit atop tropical garden with angels perfume the garden with a sweet advantage of the fragrance . The flowers the mottled leaves of caladiums trellis or tree . Its 3 range of leaf colors and

Bulb Planting Tips from a Dutch Garden

Bulb Planting Tips from a Dutch Garden

amazing public garden is a treasure ideas. Test Garden Tip: To visit blue-green leaves and bright a display garden at the Keukenhof Underneath each tree , you'll nearby. Keep fragrance in mind when the trees leaf out and shade

Christmas Tree Toppers

Christmas Tree Toppers

be wired to the tree trunk. Star treetoppers The top of this tree was attractive more for tall tree . Wired ribbon of green foil leaves gives the matte nature-themed tree sports a profusion of autumn-hued leaf sprays, moss

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