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DesignThe Best Keystone Plants for Your Region and Zone
Whether we realize it or not, gardeners are at the forefront of the critical fight to repair Earth’s environmental damage being caused by climate change, and habitat and biodiversity loss due to…
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DesignPlanting Plan for a Modern Makeover of a Suburban Yard
From coast to coast, you’ll find large swaths of postage-stamp properties, lovingly referred to as cookie-cutter homes, popularized during the 1950s postwar-era housing boom. Located just outside of city centers,…
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DesignWhy to Stop Tilling and Grow Your Garden Like a Prairie
In graduate school my research involved comparing the health of soils in remnant native tallgrass prairies to adjacent farmlands. One of the lessons I learned is that we’d all be…
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DesignAlice Says Goodbye to a Special Garden: Part 2
Hi GPODers! Today we continue our farewell tour of Alice Fleurkens' garden in Sweaburg, Ontario. If you missed it, please check out Part 1, which includes links to some of her…
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Design12 Ways to Help Build a Healthy Ecosystem in Your Home Garden
Thoughtfully selecting what plants you grow in your garden is not the only way to help improve your local ecosystem. How you grow and the inclusion of other garden features…
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DesignEpisode 168: Rewind—Design Rules of Thumb with Stacie Crooks
Seattle-based garden designer Stacie Crooks creates beautiful, ecologically friendly, low-maintenance gardens throughout the Pacific Northwest. Her most recent article in the December 2024 issue of Fine Gardening magazine tackles the…
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DesignPaula’s Ottawa Garden After a Wet Growing Season
Happy Monday GPODers! We're starting the week off in a garden we've seen a couple of times in the past. Paula Brown gardens in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and creates beds,…
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DesignEnd-of-Season Regrets | Letter from the Editor
“I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.” Lucille Ball said this in an interview during the peak of her fame in the 1950s.…
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DesignNative Plants for Fall Interest in the Southeast
Fall could easily be a time of mourning. It’s the season of withering and dying back, of shortening days and cooling nights. Yet if you look at natural areas of…
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DesignHow to Create a Meadow Lawn with Native Plants
There’s satisfaction in that perfect crisscross of mown lines across flawless green grass, but with the herbicides, pesticides, water, fuel, and effort it demands, the infamous traditional turf lawn is…
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