This Old House expert home improvement advice on shopping for, using, and maintaining gardening tools, gardening materials, and gardening accessories for landscaping projects, including lawn mowers, snow blowers, pruners, loppers, shovels, spades, rakes, sprinklers, rain barrels, mulch, fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides, and more.
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Q: We have a 7-year-old Magnolia grandiflora in our yard that's over 10 feet tall and doing great. A friend would like to take a cutting to start a tree of his own. Can this be done safely? If so, how and when should we do it?
Stop cats from using you flower beds as a little box
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December 2008
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