Spring Interest - Page 5 of 150 - Fine Gardening

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    Ahead-of-Schedule Flowers in Pennsylvania

    A couple of weeks ago we saw the bulbs and buds growing in Carla Zambelli Mudry’s garden in Malvern, Pennsylvania. (Check those posts out here and here.). She's already back…

  • Canada mayflower plants growing in the shade of a tree
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    A Field Guide to Plant Watching

    Happy Monday GPODers! Hope everyone had a beautiful weekend with lots of time spent in the garden. If not in the garden, I hope you at least had an opportunity…

  • shady garden patio surrounded by pink and purple plants
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    A Purple Plant Palette in Asheville, NC

    Happy Friday, GPODers! It's safe to say that every gardener has a particular penchant for color. Whether it's a riot of color combinations (flowers and foliage in every hue and…

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    A Cut-Flower Garden for the Community

    Hey GPODers! Today's submission is one that gives you those warm-and-fuzzy feelings. It started with a message from Elizabeth on behalf of her friend, Sue: Hello, Fine Gardening. My friend,…

  • bright red and green blown glass leaves in the bog garden
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    Back in Jay Sifford’s Beautiful Bog Gardens

    Today we're exploring more of Jay Sifford's lesser-seen back garden. We've toured and featured the award-winning landscape designer's immaculate stylized meadow front garden, but now we're wondering why the blooming…

  • spring ephemerals in the garden
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    Spectacular Spring Ephemerals in Jay Sifford’s Back Garden

    It's always a treat when award-winning landscape designer Jay Sifford sends in photos of his fabulous home garden in the mountains of North Carolina. Today we have an extra-special treat:…

  • close up of light purple Giant waterleaf flowers
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    GPOD on the Road: Wildflowers of Southern Indiana

    It is your GPOD editor, Joseph, here today, sharing photos of more wildflower adventures, this time in southern Indiana. It is amazing to me what beautiful flowers I saw and…

  • close up of light purple woodland phlox blooms
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    GPOD on the Road: Cincinnati Wildflowers

    Joseph here, your GPOD editor. Last week I was in the Cincinnati area for a work project, and I took some time to hike in a few area parks. It…

  • close up of a Japanese maple with chartreuse foliage
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    April in Carla’s Garden, Part 2

    We're back today to see more spring blooms in Carla Zambelli Mudry's garden in Malvern, Pennsylvania. Delicate new leaves on a Japanese maple This Japanese maple has new foliage that…

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    April in Carla’s Garden

    Today we’re visiting with Carla Zambelli Mudry in Malvern, Pennsylvania. Spring continues in my garden, and now the late daffodils are blooming. This is a poet’s narcissus (Narcissus poeticus, Zones…