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DesignWaiting for Spring in Massachusetts
Today we’re in Massachusetts, visiting with Barbara Owen, who is looking back at last summer’s beauty in the garden while waiting for spring. The Virginia bluebells (Mertensia virginica, Zones 3–8)…
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DesignA Garden Design Expert on Ground Covers, Lower Maintenance, and “Mean-Spirited” Garden Steps
If you had a few minutes to talk with an award-winning garden designer, what would you ask? Our editor at large, Steve Aitken, was fortunate enough to get some time…
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DesignGardening in the Wilds of British Columbia
J. M. Byman shared these pictures with us today. The pics are just a sample of the perennials in my gardens in a very dry location high above the Fraser…
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DesignBetsy’s Georgia Garden
Today we’re visiting Betsy Keith’s garden. I am a retired teacher who has enjoyed doing lots of catch-up dividing and rearranging of my garden in the past two years. As…
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DesignGinger’s New Washington Garden
My name is Ginger Shields, and although I’ve been gardening across the United States for 30 years, I’m now in western Washington between Seattle and Mount Rainier, and it's a…
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DesignSouth African Standouts for Southern California
South Africa has a few similarities with Southern California. Both are hot spots of biodiversity. South Africa, like California, is recognized as a floristic province. That means that both have…
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DesignEvergreen Hedging Plants for the Northwest
Winter in the Northwest is a great time to appreciate the wonderful job broadleaf evergreen plants do in our gardens. They create structure in designs and act as windbreaks and…
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How-ToFirewise Landscaping in the Mountain West
In 2020, wildfires raged across the west, with Colorado having three of the largest wildfires on state record. Just west of where I live in Fort Collins, the largest of…
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DesignIntoxicating Itoh Peonies for Northern California
What exactly is an Itoh peony? Itoh peonies were first developed by Toichi Itoh, who experimented for many years with crossing tree peonies (Paeonia suffruticosa cvs., Zones 4–8), which are…
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DesignJason’s Garden in a City
Today we’re in Evanston, Illinois, in the Chicago suburbs, visiting Jason Kay’s beautiful garden. I've been gardening since around the age of 12. (I'm now 62.) I’ve had my current…
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