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Welcome to Dave's Garden, the website where friends share their triumphs and dilemmas in their home gardens and their lives. Dave's Garden is also a place for gardeners to share seeds or plants with other gardeners, and has so much to offer, you are certainly going to find something that will have you coming back daily, as well as making you proud to tell your friends and family about your new gardening home on the net. Here are some of the features you can access right away:

TODAY'S FEATURES

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Ode to the Garbanzo Bean, by Jeannette Adams

What do we really know about the Garbanzo bean? The uses for this easy to grow little vegetable friend are limitless.

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The Cup Plant, by Sharon Brown

I never heard the word "boring" when I was a child. The word didn't exist for me. I followed the ants on their trails to see where they built their homes. I chased lightning bugs. I built leaf boats and with a ladybug at the helm, I sailed them down the creek to unknown destinations. And I fixed all the flowers in my mother's garden so that the birds could drink from them.

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Map: Garden Centers, Garden Supplies

Menzies' Natives Nursery

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I do not qualify as a visitor to the actual site, as I am building in Weed and have been doing research. However, the Website...
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Plant Delights Nursery

Review by secretgrwr:

Just received another order from my FAVORITE nursery! Somehow the plants make it in great shape all the way to the west...
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PLANTFILES:

PlantFiles: Broad-leaf Yucca (Yucca baccata)

Broad-leaf Yucca

(Yucca baccata)

I see them everywere 5b zone they always survived every winter even if it was -16F mine has no winter damage and if flowers...
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BUGFILES:

BugFiles: House Centipede (Scutigera coleoptrata)

House Centipede

(Scutigera coleoptrata)

My cat was chassing that bug in my house and i saw it, really fast bugger, i was able to catch it. Weird thing since its...
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GARDENING ARTICLES:

Newbies Growing Oldies

Newbies Growing Oldies, by Horseshoe Griffin

The world of hand-me-down seeds, also known as heirlooms.

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GARDEN BOOKWORM:

Gardening Book: Crockett's Flower Garden

Crockett's Flower Garden

Review by woodspirit1:

I bought this book at an American Association of University Women's booksale for $2. I must admit just the name James Crockett...
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TODAY IN THE FORUMS

CLOSED: I've got a small evergreen

I have had this little tree for some time. It is planted in an area with indirect. bright light. Its a real slow grower. She seems happy, but what is it?
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With close to 300,000 members, Dave's Garden is an amazing resource for beginning and experienced gardeners alike. Inside, you'll find over 200 forums dedicated to just about every type of gardening pursuit and plant issue you can think of. From annuals and bonsai trees to vegetable gardening and winter sowing; from tips on seeds and planting to advice on regional gardening - it's a gold mine for knowledge from experienced gardeners from around the world.

Enthusiasts of all types of gardening niches will find fertile soil here for growth as gardeners and as community members. Be it water gardens, vegetable gardens, hanging gardens, flower garden, container gardens, or raised bed gardens, there is a place here where you are going to fit right in!

Among our interactive forums, we have an amazing plant identification database with over 36,000 species of plants and 140,000-plus images. Another great resource is our bug identification database. It's essentially an insect encyclopedia with over 4,500 insects listed and showing over 3,000 insect images.

We invite you to sign up and stay awhile. Your participation is always encouraged and you gardening and plant knowledge is valuable.

We're glad you could stop by! Since 2000, we've strived to be a comprehensive gardening community with gardening forums for discussion on a wide variety of topics. We have members who are knowledgeable on soil, weather, watering, just about every kind of plant, and just about every kind of insect. Our special section on trading seeds and plants continues to grow in popularity as does our section on the home life and leisurely pursuits of our gardening enthusiasts (we can't always be with spade in hand, behind a rototiller, or out harvesting our ripe produce).

Glad to see you and hope you stop by again soon!


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