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Natural Garden Care:
Building healthy soil
Natural lawn care
Plant for your site
Smart watering
Avoid pesticides
Organic pesticides
Natural Lawn Care:
Preparing the soil
Lawn seeding
Proper mowing
Proper fertilizing
Proper watering
Improving poor lawns
Chemical-free lawns
Avoid 'Weed & Feed'
Alternatives to grass
Chafer Beetles
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Slideshow of groundcovers for front yards
The lawn-less front yard
Colourful dry stream-bed
Low maintenance front yard
Euphorbia for shady yards
Quilt of perennials and rocks
Great colour combination with Berberis
Irises highlight rock wall
Cerastium and potted Hosta
Blue Ajuga and forget-me-nots
Collage of perennials and heathers
Ivy groundcover and gravel
Combination of heathers, mugo pine
Flowering perennials
Grasses, perennials and shrubs
Geranium groundcover
Layered shrubs with boxwood
Variety of low growing cedars
Bergenia with ivy and rhododendren
Artistic use of brick and stone
The lawn-less backyard
Pond with brick patio
Pond with water-lilies and iris
Easy care Pulmonaria
Clump-forming Geraniums
Tall Grass highlights perennials
Catmint and wooly thyme give colour
Crocosmia
Bee-friendly groundcovers
Red Dianthus and Potentilla
Hot, dry yards like Lambs Ear
Wooly Thyme and rocks
Stunning mix of perennials
Gravel off-sets flowerbeds
Yarrow is hardy
Bees love this garden
Lavender and daisies amid firs
Lambs ear, catmint, geranium
Perennials line a path
Marguerites and Geranium
No grass to mow here
Wooly Thyme against backdrop
Daisies and Rose Campion contrast
Carpet of white
Elegant grasses make a fancy screen
Digitalis, catmint and spiky agaves
Clumps of grasses and Eriophyllum
The splendor of perennials
Hazy grasses, catmint and lambs ear
Heather, grasses and lambs ear
More of the blues
Poppies rise above the low covers
The beautiful colour of Wooly Thyme
The wild glory of perennials
A great mix of shrubs and perennials
Dense ground cover
A grass screen for the patio
Less lawn with ground cover
Stamped concrete path with wildflower border
Perennial border for sidewalk
Checkerboard of stone squares and perennials
Green parking
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