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	Gardening Articles: Health :: Garden Crafts Features Maintaining Container Gardens By National Gardening Association Editors These simple maintenance tasks keep your patio planters and window boxes looking their best throughout the growing season and help cold-climate gardeners prepare for... more More Features: Making a Water Garden Grow Your Own Gourmet Mushrooms Bird Feeder Basics Search and Browse: Browse all articles in this topic Tip of the Day Shield Evergreens In cold areas, tender broad-leaved and needled evergreen trees and shrubs may need burlap screens to protect them against prevailing winds and winter sun. Erect wooden frames over small evergreens to prevent snow or ice damage, especially under eaves. Zip to Zone To find out your zone enter your zip and click "Go >" What's New Little Choices, Big Problems We are so lucky to live in California where earthquakes and droughts are our only major natural problems. I have never heard of anybody whose garden was damaged by an earthquake. Imagine living where hurricanes wipe out your greenhouse or where tornadoes sweep through your living room. Flooding occu ... [more] Also in the news: Trimming The Holiday Topiary Propagation Station Growing Geraniums Year-Round