If you’ve got access to an outdoor space with some direct sunlight you can create a small herb garden. Here's how to start one from scratch or expand from established plants Read Starting an Herb Garden in a Small Outdoor Space
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Starting an Herb Garden in a Small Outdoor Space
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Garden DesignUrban Gardening
Why Prune in the Winter?
When your woody plants are dormant and bare-branched, it may be time to break out the shears. Read Why Prune in the Winter?
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Garden DesignUrban Gardening
Overwintering Potted Plants
Protect your outdoor container garden so that your plants will survive the winter. Read Overwintering Potted Plants
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Garden DesignPlant Choices
Grow Carnivorous Plants in a DIY Mini-Bog
Create a miniature wetland habitat for carnivorous plants, orchids, and other bog-loving species. Read Grow Carnivorous Plants in a DIY Mini-Bog
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Garden DesignUrban Gardening
Create Your Own Floating Flower Arrangement
Floating flower arrangements—which play with color, texture, movement, and light—provide a limitless opportunity for creative expression. Read Create Your Own Floating Flower Arrangement
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Garden DesignSustainable Gardening
How to Grow Self-Sowing Annuals
Self-sowing annuals plant themselves, which makes them an appealing, sustainable choice for gardeners who don't mind a few surprises. Read How to Grow Self-Sowing Annuals
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Garden DesignUrban GardeningUrban Gardening & Ecology
Design Ideas for Your Shady Urban Garden
City gardens are usually in partial or deep shade, so plants that thrive on the forest floor and in the shade of taller trees can be planted here to model a natural woodland ecosystem. Read Design Ideas for Your Shady Urban Garden
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Garden DesignUrban GardeningUrban Gardening & Ecology
Streetscape Gardening
Take inspiration from Greenest Block in Brooklyn winners and finalists and create an urban oasis of your own. Read Streetscape Gardening
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Garden Design
Thinking Inside the Box
Stepping out our front doors, we urbanites are often met by concrete pavement and brick walls. But looking up—if we’re lucky—we can feast our eyes on surprising splashes of life growing in window boxes. Read Thinking Inside the Box
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Garden DesignSustainable GardeningUrban Gardening
A Brooklyn Backyard Rain Garden and Green Roof
A Williamsburg backyard was designed to capture excess storm water. In a twist on the traditional rain garden, its charming stream and small pond hold water that flows from the yard and green roof. Read A Brooklyn Backyard Rain Garden and Green Roof