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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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…