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10 Native Wildflowers to Beautify Your Winter Garden

To everything there is a season, as the song goes. That includes your garden, its plants, and its colors. While it may not stay lush and green during winter, it still can have all of its charm and appeal. Far from going on a total hibernation during the winter months, there is no reason why your garden can’t continue to be beautiful even as the earthy browns and icy whites set in. One way to dress your yard in the colors of winter is to foster some of these ten native wildflowers. While summer is the flowering season, winter is the time of the seedpod. They come in all shapes and sizes as...

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How to Design a Greenhouse for Your Winter Garden – And Why You Should

A greenhouse is a perfect way to keep flowers and vegetables growing through the winter months. It has a number of other fun uses too. In this quick introduction, we tell you the basics of how to set up a greenhouse, as well as some of the many reasons why it’s a great idea. Designing Your Greenhouse The most important consideration with a greenhouse is temperature. You need to make sure that your greenhouse makes the most of the available sunlight during the winter months and retains as much of the heat as possible when there is no direct sunlight. The daily temperature range should...

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