Midwest - Page 42 of 72 - Fine Gardening
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How-To
Bring It In!
Tropical plants are a major part of my home garden. It requires effort to lift them every fall and replant them in spring, but it’s worth it to have a…
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Article
Plant Winter Interest With Conifers
One of my favorite ways to get ideas for my own yard is to visit public gardens. Great public gardens give me a chance to see mature specimens of trees,…
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Article
Bring Color to the Fall Garden With Surprise Lilies
Surprise lilies. Hurricane lilies. Naked ladies. Spider lilies. Equinox flowers. Plants in the genus Lycoris sure have a LOT of different common names! These interesting and attention-grabbing names (naked ladies?)…
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Turning a Yard Into a Butterfly Paradise
Vickie Sowers of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, has turned her front yard into a butterfly garden. She’s shared her garden with us before, and this year she’s kicked it up a level.…
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Article
Plan Now for a Spring Display
Today’s photos come from Vanessa Bianchi, who moved from Florida to the Midwest a couple of years ago and had to learn about gardening in a new climate. I moved…
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Design
Designing a Garden Around an Antique Shed
Today’s photos come from Sharon Weiser of St. Joseph, Missouri. Mine is a country garden at heart. In Zone 5, my garden is a mix of sun and shade, trees,…
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Article
Choosing Plants for Color All Year
Today’s photos come from Pallavi Divekar of Chicago. I started this hobby around 2008 after being in my house for three years and watching what was blooming in the yard.…
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Design
Bringing Bright Colors to Small Spaces
Tamara Kljaic sent in today’s photos from her mother’s garden in Rockford, Illinois. Her mother is a lifelong lover of flowers, and these are some of her favorite images from…
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Design
Master Gardeners Put on a Fair Display
Jackie Stasevich sent in these photos of a great project by her local group of Master Gardeners: The Kalamazoo County Youth Fair in Michigan just wrapped up, and our local…
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Design
Marrying Garden Design to Architecture
Today’s photos come from Jac Blanco in Detroit. We purchased this house two years ago (July 2016), and at that time the front was not visible from the street because…