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    Expert Design Advice: Color Can Make or Break Your Garden

    Most people don’t want a garden that looks like a crayon box exploded, with every color under the sun scattered about and no rhyme or reason to the design. Yet…

  • Purple-Stemmed Aster
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    4 Must-Have Plants for the Midwest

    As garden centers start to open their doors for the season (and we get ready to run into them with open arms), we decided to ask some regional experts what…

  • Steady Eddy Doublefile Viburnum
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    4 Must-Have Plants for the Southeast

    As garden centers start to open their doors for the season (and we get ready to run into them with open arms), we decided to ask some regional experts what…

  • Butterfly Rose
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    4 Must-Have Plants for the Northeast

    As garden centers start to open their doors for the season (and we get ready to run into them with open arms), we decided to ask some regional experts what…

  • deer proof garden dry shade
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    A Deer-Proof Garden Design for Dry Shade

    There aren’t many properties left that still have massive, native evergreen trees. Sometimes, however, you find a home built among the giants. These homes capture the essence of the forest…

  • Add herbs to your container designs
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    Add Herbs to Your Container Designs

    Containers offer a simple solution for anyone who likes to have delicious, fresh herbs close at hand. You could pot up parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme in a single container…

  • garden path filled with purple flowers
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    Lydia’s Woodland Garden

    My name is Lydia Grupinski, and I garden with my husband, Ray, on the shores of Lake Norman in Mooresville, North Carolina, just outside of Charlotte. Being located right on…

  • garden seating area surrounded by greenery
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    A Garden in the Concrete Jungle, Part 1

    Today we’re off to Toronto, Canada, to visit with Patrick and Dorothy Smyth. Our garden is in the middle of a concrete jungle. A refuge of calm and beauty, it's…

  • bold plants for shade
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    Regional Picks: Bold Plants for Shade

    Finding plants that flourish in the shade isn't the challenge. Anyone can find a flock of ferns or a herd of hostas to turn their shade garden into a green…

  • dry shade planting
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    Anatomy of a Dry-Shade Planting

    A. Understory trees and shrubs provide screening without blocking light The lovely, light green Japanese maples underneath a towering Douglas fir provide filtered screening to the house without obscuring it…