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    Cool-Season Containers

    The end of the growing season is a relaxing time. Cooler temperatures prevail, and plants are slowing down or are preparing to go dormant. This isn’t really a time, then,…

  • How-To

    7 Organic Mulches for the Vegetable Garden

    Fall, winter, and early spring are all great times to lay down a little mulch blanket. While any organic mulch is appropriate for the vegetable garden, sometimes there are strategic…

  • low brick wall surrounding an elegant yet relaxed garden
    Design

    Where Formal and Natural Meet

    Everyone has been to a house that has a “do-not-touch” room in it. It might be a living room with plastic covers on the couches or a dining room with…

  • silver containers
    Design

    Lustrous Silver Container-Challenge Results

    Silver is stunning! Such a fun idea, and wow, such fantastic containers! 

  • Design

    Transforming a garden with good bones

    When Joan Stogryn-Galloway bought her home she found a perfect stage for her love of gardening and travel memories!

  • Various butterfly bush cuttings arranged in a circle
    Design

    Beyond the Basic Butterfly Bush

    Few sights are as quintessentially associated with summer as butterflies perched on the blossoms of butterfly bush (Buddleia spp. and cvs., USDA Hardiness Zones 5–9). While the profusion and prodigious…

  • Design

    One Peak, Four Seasons of Interest

    Most of us want our gardens to look fabulous all the time—no matter the season. That’s great if you are willing to put in the time and money required to…

  • mixed evergreens anchor a hillside planting
    Design

    Pull a Design Together With Ground Covers

    The staff at your local garden center works hard to assemble eye-catching displays of colorful perennials, artfully arranged succulents, and architectural grasses. But the ground-cover section is likely an unremarkable,…

  • Dwarf formosa lily
    Design

    Heavenly Scents—Fragrant Plants and Flowers

    A few years ago, I was walking with a friend through a wonderful rose garden and pointed out one of my favorite varieties: the old-fashioned rose ‘Madame Ernest Calvat’, which…

  • green lawn, colorful plants and red Adirondack chairs overlooking a vista with blue sky
    Design

    How to Use Red in the Garden

    You can’t help but look at the chairs. Placed off to the side of the lawn so that they don’t hog all the space, the chairs are a focal point,…