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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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A Romantic Garden, by Dutchlady

Watching the moonlight silvering the palm fronds….a gentle wafting breeze …. The fragrance of honeysuckle and plumeria……a mockingbird singing…..that is romance for me.

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Love for Lemongrass, by Tamara Galbraith

Lemongrass (Cymbopogon citratus), is a beautiful, tall, arching plant with dual personalities: it has the willowy visual effect of ornamental grass in the landscape, and boasts a variety of culinary and medicinal uses as an herb.

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A Further Look at Mycorrhizas, by Ian Maxwell

A return to the world of mycorrhizal relationships. Again we explore life beneath the soil, as we take a look at vital connections between plants & fungi.

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Hello Readers - You Supply The Caption - Fun Weekly Feature, by Dea O'Hopp

On Saturdays, the Writer's Group would like to say thanks by presenting a "You Supply The Caption" photo. A gardening related photo will be presented, and you the Readers will provide humorous captions. The wit available on Dave's is some of the best around, so please join in the fun! This feature is not a "for compensation" article - just our way of saying Thanks for reading. Hope you enjoy...now let's hear some funny stuff!

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AguaFina Gardens & Imports

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Had hard and soft landscaping done by Aguafina last year. For the hardscapes, they used the wrong landscaping stones,...
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Katz Kuntry Kuttins

Review by Acacius48:

I just received an order from Katz Kuntry Kuttins. Wow I was very impressed when I opened the box. Both plants were packaged...
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PLANTFILES:

PlantFiles: Tropical Hibiscus 'Seminole Pink' (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis)

Tropical Hibiscus 'Seminole Pink'

(Hibiscus rosa-sinensis)

This is a very easy tropical hibiscus. It blooms almost year round if you bring it inside to a sunny location in the winter....
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BUGFILES:

BugFiles: Large Rose Sawfly (Arge pagana stephensii)

Large Rose Sawfly

(Arge pagana stephensii)

This subspecies can be seen illustrated on the following site, http://delta-intkey.com/britin/hym/www/argidae.htm They...
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GARDENING ARTICLES:

Double Digging Basics

Double Digging Basics, by Tamara Galbraith

You've probably heard the term "double digging" before. And if you heard it during a conversation among gardeners, the words were probably followed by a collective groan.

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GARDEN BOOKWORM:

Gardening Book: High and Dry: Gardening With Cold-Hardy Dryland Plants

High and Dry: Gardening With Cold-Hardy Dryland Plants

Review by maihuenia:

High and Dry: Gardening with cold-hardy plants Robert Nold 420 pages, photographs and watercolors by Cindy Nold Timber...
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TODAY IN THE FORUMS

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We received some seeds from Mexico and they grew, are somewhat invasive, but are also attractive. They have very pale yellow flowers, round puffs. They get about 40 feet tall, have slender trunks, and lots of beans. View Responses (4 replies)

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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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