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DesignTips for the Best Northern California Cutting Garden
Do you love creating your very own home-grown, colorful floral arrangements, but are you constantly plundering your perennial beds for the perfect blooms? An annual cutting garden, designed and dedicated…
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DesignContainers With Serious Contrast Always Stand Out
How often do you return home from an expensive assault on the local nursery to find that, ultimately, your container design is disappointing for reasons you cannot quite explain? Creating…
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DesignA Summer Show-Stopper From Every Angle | Plant Recommendation
A plethora of plants sport daisy-like flowers in midsummer, so for one to stand out from the crowd takes a little something extra—which is exactly what ‘Sunstruck’ oxeye sunflower has.…
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DesignConquering Collector’s Chaos
I am a plant collector, and I have a “collector’s garden.” In gardener-speak, that is code for acknowledging I have lots of plants (some would say too many) wedged to…
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DesignBetter Versions of Classic Plants
For most people, their first attraction to plants and gardening is an appreciation of the beauty of flowers and foliage. Few hearts can remain cold to a hellebore opening on…
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DesignPeak-Season Combos
While most people tend to divide the gardening year into four seasons, I like to divide it into three time periods: planning, working, and enjoying. Winter is for planning. It’s…
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DesignWoodland Gems for the Midwest
My favorite springtime destination at my workplace, Olbrich Botanical Gardens in Madison, Wisconsin, is our lovely wooded Wildflower Garden. Oaks (Quercus spp. and cvs, Zones 4-10), maples (Acer spp. and…
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DesignSmall-Scale Rhododendrons for Year-Round Interest
Rhododendrons (Rhododendron spp. and cvs., Zones 4-9) are an amazing group of stalwart evergreen plants that are often not considered by residential gardeners because they are afraid they’ll end up…
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DesignTwo Takes on a Courtyard Garden
Some may say that the risks involved with designing a small space are far less than those associated with designing a big one. After all, if you mess up, you…
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DesignLady and Painted Ferns—Trial Results
If you’re like me, you find that plants come in and out of favor all the time. A few years ago, I was all over blue grama grass (Bouteloua gracilis,…
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