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Gardening: Grow Your Own Beautiful and Bountiful Garden

Gardening is an art form that allows you to connect with nature and create a beautiful outdoor space. Whether a seasoned gardener or a beginner, our gardening category provides a wealth of information and resources to help you grow your own beautiful and bountiful garden.

At Tayloe’s Lawn Care Services, we believe that gardening is essential to a healthy and sustainable lifestyle. It provides fresh, delicious produce and enhances the beauty of your outdoor space, supports local ecosystems, and helps reduce your carbon footprint.

Our gardening category covers all aspects, from planning and designing your garden to selecting the right plants and maintaining a healthy and thriving garden. We provide practical advice on choosing the best location for your garden, preparing the soil, and selecting the right plants for your climate and soil conditions.

We also offer guidance on gardening techniques, such as companion planting, crop rotation, and organic fertilization, to help you grow healthy and nutritious plants. Our experts provide detailed information on how to start a garden from seeds, care for seedlings, and transplant young plants.

In addition, our gardening category offers tips and ideas for creating beautiful and sustainable gardens, including butterfly and pollinator gardens, ferns and shade gardens, vegetable and herb gardens, and ornamental gardens. We provide step-by-step instructions for designing and creating your garden, including tips on selecting and arranging plants, creating garden beds and pathways, and adding decorative elements such as fountains and statues.

Whether seasoned or a beginner, our gardening category has something for everyone. We provide clear and concise information, step-by-step guides, and helpful videos to help you grow your own beautiful and bountiful garden. Explore our articles today and start creating the garden of your dreams.

Sunflowers: Growing and care guide

Gardening, Lawn Care / By Maureen Abuor

Have you ever admired sunflowers and want to try your hand at growing them yourself? This growing and care guide can help you get started.

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Chives: Growing easy-care perennial herbs

Herb Garden / By Maureen Abuor

Chives, Allium schoenoprasum is a delicious and versatile culinary herb. Easy to grow in any USDA growing zone, ideal for attractive borders.

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Epsom Salt: Pros and cons of using it in the garden

Gardening / By Deborah Tayloe

Discover how Epsom salt can benefit your garden with these 6 proven techniques. Understand the science behind and correct application.

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Parsley: Grow and maintain this classic culinary herb

Herb Garden / By Deborah Tayloe

Parsley is a hardy biennial herb that thrives in container gardens or in the ground. Read how to grow this beloved herb garden favorite.

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Catnip Versus Catmint: They’re not the same herb

Herb Garden / By Deborah Tayloe

Catnip and catmint have similar names and are close relatives, but they’re not the same. Read about the similarities and differences.

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Overwintering black-eyed Susan and brown-eyed Susan

Flower Garden / By Deborah Tayloe

Experience beautiful blooms in the garden next spring with tips for overwintering black-eyed and brown-eyed Susan. How to prepare them for winter.

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Acidic Soil: Best 12 plants to grow in acid soils in zones 7 and 8

Gardening / By Deborah Tayloe

Acidic soil can pose a challenge in northeastern North Carolina, but you can still have a lovely landscape by growing soil-loving plants.

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Celosia: Colorful plumes to bring fresh life to your landscape

Flower Garden / By Deborah Tayloe

Make your North Carolina garden stand out with the addition of Celosia. Perfect for zones 7 or 8, “cockscomb” is an annual in USDA zones 2-9.

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Plastic Drum Ideas: 10 Useful projects for your yard

Gardening / By Deborah Tayloe

Eco-friendly and cost-effective: realize the potential of plastic drums in your garden. Learn how to find them for free to make things!

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Delphiniums: Ultimate growing and care guide for the larkspur

Flower Garden / By Deborah Tayloe

The delphinium (or larkspur!) is a towering, flowering beauty. Read all about how to grow and care for this pollinator-attracting flower.

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Softscaping: The art of a beautiful landscape

Leave a Comment / Gardening / By Randy Tayloe

Property owners can discover how to transform their outdoor space into a breathtaking oasis with the art of softscaping (and why it matters.)

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Dill: Grow, care for, and harvest an herb garden classic

Herb Garden / By Deborah Tayloe

This delicious herb is versatile for more than just dill pickles. Dill, Latin: Anethum graveolens, is a herbaceous annual plant commonly used as a culinary herb. It is a carrot family member and a native species to southern Russia, western Africa, and the Mediterranean region. Dill is hardy in USDA planting zones 3-10. This classic

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