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Daves Garden, your gardening home

Dave's Garden is the hands-down favorite website of gardeners around the world. Our articles and videos show you how to start seeds and learn how to have your best garden ever. Members can chat with other gardeners in our 250 forums, and identify your plants, pests, birds and butterflies. Heres what is happening right now in Daves Garden:

TODAY'S FEATURES

The Garden’s ABCs-- A-M, by M Fitzgerald

A fun look into the wonderful and illogical world of the garden and all the great things we can learn and do with our time there. This is just meant for fun, but maybe you can learn a little too.

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Head Over Heels in Burdock, by Sharon Brown
A child's imagination will take her a very long way. But when that imagination is combined with travels with Aunt Bett, said child would have been wise if she had carried a first aid kit with her.

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Unusual and Bizarre Plants - Fasciation Fascination, by LariAnn Garner
The beauty of our everyday plants is one reason why we garden and keep plants in our environments. However, sometimes Nature throws us a curve ball and we find an intriguing anomaly to add to our collection. Read on to learn more about a most unusual phenomenon . . .

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GO GARDENING:

Mike's Farm

well I have a 15 month old child and it was so much fun for her my husband and I have been many time here on church trip...
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GARDEN WATCHDOG:

Johnson Nursery

Review by gpritch:

I have purchased all my apple trees, raspberry, blueberry and figs from Johnson's Nursery for the past 15 years and am always...
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PLANTFILES:

Mallow 'Zebrina'

(Malva sylvestris)

What a lovely plant! I submitted a post to the Plant Identification forum back in March asking for help ID'ing a "mysterious...
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BUGFILES:

Springtail

(Podura aquatica)

These tiny 1mm water creatures live on the surface of my pond. You can often find them in large groups feeding on floating...
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GARDENING ARTICLES:

Seed Catalogs, by Kathleen M. Tenpas

The air is full of snowflakes and so cold that the rhododendron leaves outside the window have folded in on themselves. I sit at the dining room table as dusk draws in with a pile of

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GARDEN BOOKWORM:

Garden Spells

Review by Kylaluaz:

I actually loved this book. As an avid fantasy reader I am delighted with any I find that are well written and whose themes...
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TODAY IN THE FORUMS

Identify weed, please

This weed is taking over the lawns in our neighborhood in Southwest Miami. It does not seem to be killed by RoundUp although the surrounding grass is destroyed, and is definitely unaffected by Weed-N-Feed type agents. Left
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Enthusiasts of every gardening niche can put down roots and grow their knowledge. Are you into water gardens, vegetable gardens, hanging gardens, growing flowers or arranging bouquets, container gardens, raised beds, farming, poultry, beekeeping or any other gardening pursuit? If so, you'll find we have forums, articles and videos to help you learn, grow and share advice.

Do you need help identifying a plant, bug or bird? Check out the plant and tree identification, insect identification forum, and the bird identification forum. Or browse the PlantFiles and BugFiles databases, where you'll find information on more than 160,000 plants and thousands of insects and spiders.

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We invite you to sign up and join our community, and share what you know! Here at Dave's Garden, you can create your own blog, upload photos for free, or use our tools to trade seeds and plants.

Since 2000, we've grown to be a comprehensive gardening community with discussion forums for every hobby, home and garden topic you can imagine. Our members are knowledgeable about soil, weather, watering, and just about every kind of plant and insect. On behalf of all our members, we are glad you came to visit, and we hope you will stop by again soon!