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Tag Archives: container gardening

Growing Plants in Containers: the Ultimate Challenge

February 4, 2014 no comments
What a wonderful moral education is provided in the growing of container plants. Virtually unique among human activities, container gardening allows little escape from complete personal responsibilit...

Ultimate Responsibility: Container Gardening

December 3, 2013 no comments
What a wonderful moral education is provided in the growing of container plants. Virtually unique among human activities, container gardening allows little escape from complete personal responsibilit...

The Fine Art of Gardening: Container Planting

November 19, 2013 no comments
Growing plants in containers has long been acknowledged as gardening’s finest art. It therefore comes as no surprise that at the Palace of Versailles – a bastion of French fine arts since...

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Welcome to The Smarter Gardener. I'm Joshua Siskin and I've been writing about plants and trees for the Los Angeles Daily News for over 20 years. If you have any questions or comments, please send them along. I have published more than 1,000 articles on plants and I am currently in the process of loading them onto this site. My goal is to make it possible for you to learn about any of the plants in your garden by doing a search of this site.

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