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Check out this TabStart page to find a hand-picked collection of websites that present flower garden ideas with pictures. The ideas featured in the resources below will help inspire you to create beautiful flower gardens in your yard. Additionally, there are websites here that present tips for creating healthy vegetable gardens.
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Flower Garden Video: "How to Design and Prepare Flower Beds" - Garden Guides offers this instructional video for creating, designing, and preparing your own flower beds. The web page conveiently includes a transcript of the video presentation.
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Ideas for a Rock-Lined Flower Bed Garden from Martha Stewart - Martha Stewart's website supplies outstanding ideas for prettying up window boxes. Use river stones over soil in a flower bed to prevent soil from splashing up in a window box. This page includes a helpful pictures so you can see what the finished design will look like.
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Ideas and Inspiration for Your Garden from the Chelsea Flower Show - The BBC provides "Takeaway Planting Plans" from the 2007 Chelsea Flower Show. The article provides several different PDF files of flower garden ideas for your own garden from this flower show. This site abounds with pictures to help you visualize some these flower garden techniques in your backyard.
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Ideas for Creating a Flower Cutting Garden - The University of Vermont's Department of Plant and Soil Science offers this article that provides useful ideas for creating a flower cutting garden. Cutting gardens allow you to grow flowers specifically for bouquets. The article provides many suggestions for which annuals, perennials, and foliage would be best.
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Ideas (with Pictures) for Growing Vegetables in Containers - This Better Homes and Gardens online article gives many fresh ideas for planting vegetables and herbs in containers. Browse through this image gallery to find ideas to insprire you to update your garden.
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Ideas for Starting a Vegetable Garden: 5 S's of Success - Read this article from the National Gardening Association to learn more about growing a successful vegetable garden. The five Ss include sun, soil, site, size, and selection.
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Front Yard Vegetable Garden Makeover - Here is an interesting vegetable garden idea! Why not try a front yard vegetable garden? Read this article and watch the accompanying video at the Eden Makers blog to see how to design a front yard vegetable garden.