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DesignButterflies and Blooms
Today’s photos are from Christina Stiern. I’m sending some pictures from my garden in Defiance, Missouri, featuring early August blooms and some beautiful garden visitors. To see more of my…
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DesignGardening at the Lakeside
I am Charles Markman, long-time Fine Gardening subscriber. I have been gardening on the shoreline of Lake Michigan in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, for 10 years, facing the challenge of a…
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DesignPlant Lover’s Garden in Indiana
We’re visiting Lilli Hazard’s garden in Fishers, Indiana, today. I love gardening and caught the disease that gave me my green thumb from my mother when I was about 10…
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DesignCreating Beauty in Illinois
The photos today are from Suzanne Layer's garden in Bloomingdale, Illinois. Welcome to my garden! Stroll past the fairies and under the arch filled with red roses. Gardens are magical…
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DesignPlants for Compact Spaces, Part I: Small Perennials and Shrubs for the Midwest
Maybe you want to underplant a tree without obscuring its attractive bark or you want to maintain some visual separation between a low-branched woody plant and the ground plane. Perhaps…
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ArticleMidwest August Garden To-Do List
Harvest fruits and vegetables. As the summer heat settles in and your fruits and vegetables continue to mature, get out in the garden and start to gather those delicious delights…
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DesignRegional Picks: Tough Plants—Midwest
See regional picks for tough pretty plants, and read the article by Julie Lane Gray for even more ideas. It’s important to define first what I mean by a “tough”…
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DesignGarden Magic in Minnesota
Trisha Burdick sent in these photos from her garden in Excelsior, Minnesota, which is in the chilly Zone 4. But as they show, a cold climate doesn’t mean you can’t…
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DesignGardening in St. Louis
Today’s photos come from Cynthia in St. Louis, Missouri. Zebra mallow (Malva sylvestris ‘Zebrina’, Zones 6–9) grows a little like a mini-hollyhock, with charming striped purple flowers and solid vigor…
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DesignTips for Growing Trees and Shrubs in Containers
Gardeners are gamblers by nature, taking chances based on educated guesses and hoped-for results. Conventional wisdom holds that few plants will survive growing in containers year-round, especially in the the…
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