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	<description>Learn How to Add a Little Spice to Your Home &#38; Garden</description>
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		<title>The paved sitting area in your garden</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before making a list of the most important features you want in the new garden, the options available need some consideration.
The Paved Sitting Area
Almost certainly you will want this, and it will probably be the garden&#8217;s most-used area. Most people, including the enthusiastic gardener, sometimes want to sit outside -rather than staying in or working non-stop on a fine day. So making a level paved area not far from the house is of prime importance. It may act as the transition between house and garden.
In our experience people tend to ...]]></description>
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		<title>A Gallery of Ornaments &amp; Props for the Oriental Garden</title>
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Chinese courtyards, classic Japanese tea gardens, Oriental rock gardens, or any landscape inspired by the exotic Far East can benefit from the vast array of garden props and ornaments available today.  The subsequent text discusses a comprehensive array of features for any style Oriental garden and landscape.
Chozubachi (tall basin) and tsukubai (low basin) are two basic types of Japanese water features.  Chozubachi come in many styles today but one traditional style for the large basin involves a tall cylinder-shaped stone with a hollowed out basin on its top ...]]></description>
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		<title>How your Plants Grow part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Flowers are produced in several different ways and this has an important impact on pruning. Some species produce flowers on the current season&#8217;s growth, such as many buddleia or garden roses. In these hard pruning in the spring encourages a period of vigorous growth, leading to larger clusters of flowers. Other plants only produce them on growth made in the previous year. Many shrub and species roses produce them in this way, if they are cut back severely in the spring, there will be no crop of flowers that year.
Fruits ...]]></description>
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		<title>How your Plants Grow part 1</title>
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If you understand a little about the nature of plants, you can enjoy them more, look after their nutrition, and control pests and weeds, with more confidence.
Plant nutrition
The essential difference between plants and animals is that plants are able to make their own food from raw materials, while animals can only eat either plants or other animals.
In making their food, plants use carbon dioxide, water and sunlight to make sugars, by the process called photosynthesis. Sun­light is trapped by the chlorophyll in the leaves &#8211; the substance that makes leaves ...]]></description>
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		<title>What do you want from your garden</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before attempting to design a garden, or redesign part of one, you need to establish its possibilities and decide what you personally require. Also, consider its existing features. Even the small, flat rectangular garden of a newly built estate house will have features that cannot be ignored and that dictate the nature of the design.
The first question to ask is &#8216;Who will be using the garden?&#8217; Its design revolves around the answer. Here are three examples of how the owners&#8217; requirements affect garden design.
FOR THE YOUNG WORKING COUPLE
Due to lack ...]]></description>
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		<title>Choosing Landscape Materials</title>
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Lawns &#8211; turf or seed
There are advantages and disadvantages to turfing and seeding and it would be wrong to advise ones preference. To a certain extent price is an important consideration. Seeding is certainly cheaper. Turf is variable in quality and price, the best being a specialist seeded turf such as &#8216;Fescue&#8217; or Bermuda&#8217;, which is itself sold in a number of grades. The next is good quality or special meadow turf and at the lower end, standard meadow turf.
If you want a good lawn without coarse grasses you should ...]]></description>
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		<title>3 Types of Garden Features</title>
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Herbaceous Beds
A traditional herbaceous border without question is a spectacle. Unfortunately, there is a considerable amount of work involved in creating a successful border. To obtain the traditional effect a good deal of space is required. All other planting types are excluded and the achievement is a riot of color during the summer period only. The alternative is to use herbaceous material in groups within other shrub planting. The great advantage of this type of herbaceous planting is that a relatively small area is covered with the time-consuming plants, the ...]]></description>
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