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Welcome to Dave's Garden, the website where friends share their triumphs and dilemmas in their home gardens and their lives. Dave's Garden is also a place for gardeners to share seeds or plants with other gardeners, and has so much to offer, you are certainly going to find something that will have you coming back daily, as well as making you proud to tell your friends and family about your new gardening home on the net. Here are some of the features you can access right away:

TODAY'S FEATURES

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Black-eyed Susan, by Sharon Brown

If you plant Black-eyed Susans beside your door, no ants will enter, but the butterflies.....oh, the butterflies, they will just come right on in.

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Some Like It Hot! Making Hot Sauce from Homegrown Chile Peppers, by Jill M. Nicolaus

Are your hot pepper plants out of control? Do you see heaps of beautiful, bright colored chiles at the local farmers’ market and wish you could make something wonderful from them? Have you made all the salsa your freezer can hold, and you’re still looking at a mound of hot peppers waiting for you to do *something* with them? Homemade hot sauce is the answer! It’s fun and easy to make, and it’ll be a big hit at your next party!

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Botany for Gardeners - Going Underground, by LariAnn Garner

A stroll through your garden will reveal flowers, fruits, stems, branches and leaves, but you'll have to do some digging to see the rest of your plant. Here I'll introduce you to the underground plant parts, including roots and a variety of underground storage organs that are used by plants and by us as food sources . . .

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Map: Garden Centers, Garden Supplies

Roarks Garden Center

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This used to be my favorite place to go. Now it is more like a dump. Little or no help in site. Prices are hard to find....
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Rick's Custom Nursery

Review by petrossp:

Absolutely one of the BEST nurseries I have ordered from -- hands down. Plants are large and healthy (or they'll usually...
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PlantFiles: Clematis 'Multi Blue' (Clematis )

Clematis 'Multi Blue'

(Clematis )

This plant grows well in Norfolk England in full sun the flowers come in spring and July. The flowers are stunning....
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BUGFILES:

BugFiles: Giant Vinegarone (Mastigoproctus giganteus)

Giant Vinegarone

(Mastigoproctus giganteus)

I was first introduced to this "pest" at the El Paso Zoo. At a show they were having there was a woman walking around with...
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GARDENING ARTICLES:

Insect Profile: Cucumber Beetles

Insect Profile: Cucumber Beetles, by Tamara Galbraith

The kids will soon be wrapping up their school year, the NHL and NBA are heading toward their respective post-seasons...and the cucumber beetles are preparing to party harder than Paris

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GARDEN BOOKWORM:

Gardening Book: Designing with Succulents

Designing with Succulents

Review by pcds:

I enjoyed everything in this book - beautiful photographs, text and tips were a pleasure to read besides being highly informative....
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TODAY IN THE FORUMS

CLOSED: ID this plant for me please

Help, could someone please let me know what this plant is? It is a very fast grower and forms a very thick stock almost like a sunflower only it is hollow like bamboo. It gets wonderful little purple, white or pink flowers
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With close to 300,000 members, Dave's Garden is an amazing resource for beginning and experienced gardeners alike. Inside, you'll find over 200 forums dedicated to just about every type of gardening pursuit and plant issue you can think of. From annuals and bonsai trees to vegetable gardening and winter sowing; from tips on seeds and planting to advice on regional gardening - it's a gold mine for knowledge from experienced gardeners from around the world.

Enthusiasts of all types of gardening niches will find fertile soil here for growth as gardeners and as community members. Be it water gardens, vegetable gardens, hanging gardens, flower garden, container gardens, or raised bed gardens, there is a place here where you are going to fit right in!

Among our interactive forums, we have an amazing plant identification database with over 36,000 species of plants and 140,000-plus images. Another great resource is our bug identification database. It's essentially an insect encyclopedia with over 4,500 insects listed and showing over 3,000 insect images.

We invite you to sign up and stay awhile. Your participation is always encouraged and you gardening and plant knowledge is valuable.

We're glad you could stop by! Since 2000, we've strived to be a comprehensive gardening community with gardening forums for discussion on a wide variety of topics. We have members who are knowledgeable on soil, weather, watering, just about every kind of plant, and just about every kind of insect. Our special section on trading seeds and plants continues to grow in popularity as does our section on the home life and leisurely pursuits of our gardening enthusiasts (we can't always be with spade in hand, behind a rototiller, or out harvesting our ripe produce).

Glad to see you and hope you stop by again soon!