About UsSign UpLog inHOMEGUIDES & INFORMATIONCOMMUNITIESGARDEN SHOWCASEPRODUCTS & SOURCESIt's time for the annual DG County Fair! Enter your blue-ribbon photos  here; we'll have the thread for recipes up today, too!Welcome to Dave's Garden!  Dave's Garden is the hands-down favorite website of gardeners around the world. Our articles and videos show you how to start seeds and learn how to have your best garden ever. Members can chat with other gardeners in our 143 forums, and identify your plants, pests, birds and butterflies. Here's what's happening right now in Dave's Garden...TODAY'S FEATURESDon't Fret Early Frosts: Be Prepared, by Shannon McKeeAre you one of those people that is never prepared for an early frost in your area and panic when one occurs?Continue reading »Japanese Plum Yew Excels in the South, by Marie HarrisonLooking for a groundcover plant that grows in shade and is mannerly, evergreen, attractive, and that the deer won't eat? Look no farther. Cehpalotaxus harringtonia 'Prostrata' will cover your ground year-round with its glossy, dark green, needle-like leaves. Don't expect it to happen overnight, though. Japanese plum yew, as it is called, is slow-growing, but those who have it in their gardens agree that it is worth the wait.Continue reading »View more featuresPLANTFILES:Garden Phlox 'Volcano Red' (Phlox paniculata)A good friend gave me some garden phlox a few years ago.Not sure of the cultivar, but it could be this one.  The color...
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Stark Brothers Nurseries & Orchards Company
Review by mylittletrees:
Overall I'm pleased with my experience with Stark Brothers this past spring. The apple trees that I ordered arrived safe...
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BIRDFILES:
Summer Tanager 
(Piranga rubra)
A female or possibly juvenile summer tanager appeared at our suet feeder in Lakeway, Texas on 1-11-2013. Our local Audubon...
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BUGFILES:
Gulf Fritillary 
(Agraulis  vanillae)
I have 5 small purple passion vines on two arched trellises.  The GF's are swarming them.
I live in a pine flat wood...
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GO GARDENING:
Bear Creek Preserve
This is a 3,412 acre preserve of forest and steep stream valleys in the Lehigh River Watershed that is the Pocono Plateau...
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GARDEN BOOKWORM:
Wicked Plants: A Book of Botanical Atrocities
Review by AnneThierfelder:
Really fun and informative with interesting historical accounts of encounters with some of the book's subjects.  The cover...
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