Latest articles by Emma Kendell
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Ants Leave My Patio Alone All Summer, Thanks to This One Plant – and it’s So Cheap & Easy to Grow From SeedIf you’re only going to add one plant to your garden this year, make it this one: it gets rid of ants on your patio and smells amazing.
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7 Trailing Plants That Look Terrific Cascading From a Hanging Basket – April is the Perfect Time to Add Them to Your Garden PlantersThese thriller spiller plants will add plenty of drama to a hanging basket and they're all easy to grow, even if you're a beginner gardener.
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The $1 Slug Hack That Works Better Than Anything Else I’ve Tried in My Garden – My Seedlings Are Finally Safe!Forget copper tape, beer traps and even nematodes: cost per slug captured, this cheap and easy hack is my best-ever method of controlling slugs and snails in my backyard.
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Meet Your Perfect Rose to Plant Now, With a Scent to Match Your Favorite Perfume & Fill Your Garden With a Fragrance You AdoreRoses have all sorts of different scents from sweet honey to spicy cloves, with fruity as well as floral notes, so use your favorite perfume to guide you to the exact right variety that will fragrance your backyard with an aroma you love.
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4 Magic Ingredients to Make Hanging Baskets Low Maintenance and Produce Lots More Flowers, All Summer LongHanging baskets are a beautiful addition to any backyard, but are they hard work? Not if you add these little extras that take all the stress out of growing a stunning suspended container.
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Discover the Exact Right Tomato to Grow for Maximum Flavor in Your Garden Space Whether That’s a Big Backyard, Balcony or Just a Windowsill!Here’s the expert edit you need to slice through the thousands of varieties on offer and find the very best tomato for whatever outdoor space you've got.
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Make a Small Backyard Feel Bigger With 8 DIY Garden Designer Tricks to Maximize Your Outdoor SpaceSteal a simple small-space rule or two from garden designers and make your backyard seem twice the size.
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10 Best Small-Space Veggies That Thrive in Containers For a Productive Kitchen Garden on Your Patio or DeckNo room for a vegetable patch? No problem! All these tasty veggie varieties grow exceptionally well in containers, bring abundant harvests and make attractive patio pots, too.
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How to Mow to Get Lush, Greener Grass: These 5 Gems of Expert Know-How Will Transform Your Lawn Without Any Extra Time, Effort or ExpenseSkip straight to the top of the lawn care learning curve with these simple mowing adjustments that naturally lead to a lush, luxurious sward of green, green grass.
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6 Stylish Privacy Plants To Screen Your Garden if You’ve Already Had Enough of Your Annoying Neighbors This YearWhen you’re planting for privacy, using layers of airy planting is the smart and stylish DIY solution to screen your backyard from prying neighbors.
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Do This One Vital Task as Soon as Peony Shoots Emerge in Spring For Bigger, More Abundant FlowersAs soon as you spot those distinctive red shoots in spring, take 10 minutes to do this easy job and you’ll fuel your peony plant to produce luxuriously big blooms.
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7 Easy-Sow Seeds to Start in April & Fill Your Backyard With Colorful Flowers – You’ll Get So Many Blooms For Your Bucks & Plug Border Gaps, FastPicking unusual varieties of quick-growing garden plants is the fastest way to fill border gaps with fabulous flowers this summer. Ready, set, sow!
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I Started Sprinkling Cinnamon on My Houseplants and I Haven’t Seen a Fungus Gnat SinceAdding a regular dusting of cinnamon to my houseplant care routine has helped me win the battle against those pesky little flies.
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My Borders Stay Weed-Free All Summer Thanks to This One Plant – and its Fragrance is as Fabulous as its FlowersCreeping phlox is a pretty groundcover that's polite enough to skirt around bigger plants yet its dense mat of semi-evergreen leaves smothers weed seedlings for maintenance-free beds.
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Be Bold and Prune These 8 Evergreen Shrubs in April: You’ll Get Lush Results That Last, Even if You’re a Beginner GardenerIt’s daunting to snip stems just as they start re-growing in spring, we know, but show these shrubs some tough love with a prune now and they’ll stay in shape for the rest of the year.
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Color-Pop Patio Tables For a Fast, Affordable Garden Upgrade This SpringBring a splash of color to your backyard without breaking the bank – these stylish dopamine-dose outdoor coffee tables are all under $135, and the cheapest costs less than $25!
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Plant These Hanging Basket Blooms in April for Beautifully Abundant Backyard Displays, Even if You’re a Beginner GardenerThese hand-picked varieties are all perfect for a hanging planter, easy-peasy to grow, and have enough flower power for months of glorious color. Here's everything you need to know to get a bumper basket of blooms…
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Sow These 10 Vegetable Seeds Outdoors in April for a Hassle-Free Harvest That Lasts Through Summer and BeyondApril is the very best month to start these frost-tolerant veggies from seed, sowing directly where they are to grow for easy, abundant crops.
