By -Georgia Lund- Gardeners are always anxious to get outside and play in the dirt after a long, cold winter indoors. As soon as the weather warms up and the ground thaws, it’s time to get your garden ready for spring. Grab those gardening tools and head outdoors to make preparations for the upcoming growing season. Garden Clean UpThe first order of business is clean up the garden. Fall and winter leave behind a variety of debris on the garden, and spring is the ideal clean up time. Remove twigs,...

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-By Lynsey Grosfield- A perennial plant is a gift that keeps on giving in a variety of ways: firstly, it graces the garden with blossoms and foliage year after year, and secondly, it grows beyond the margins in which it was originally planted, often making copies of itself and forming a clonal patch. While the lateral spread is often a welcome attribute in a garden where there is still bare soil to colonize, some gardeners prefer to keep perennials growing in a circumscribed area, either for aesthetic reasons, or to...

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