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    An Alluring Design for a Lawnless Front-Yard Garden

    Is there a gardener anywhere who wouldn’t appreciate a beautiful space designed specifically to keep maintenance requirements realistic and manageable? I recently designed such a landscape for a client who…

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    An Alluring Design for a Lawnless Front-Yard Garden: Plant IDs

    In An Alluring Design for a Lawnless Front-Yard Garden, Stacie Crooks writes, "The key to creating a low-maintenance yet visually appealing garden lies in careful planning and thoughtful design choices.…

  • fall garden combinations
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    Tour a Stunning New England Garden That Peaks in Fall

    Fall is a magical time in Bruce Lockhart’s garden in Petersham, Massachusetts. Bruce’s garden is actually a collection of smaller themed gardens, including a shaded woodland area, a meadow garden,…

  • well-behaved vines
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    7 Gorgeous Climbing Vines That Won’t Take Over

    While far from the only unruly things growing in our gardens, vines always seem to be the poster children for invasive plants. Many years ago, when Brushwood Nursery was young,…

  • sunset over foliage plants in a jungle garden
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    A Jungle Garden in Portland

    Today we’re in Portland, Oregon, visiting with Zeah. I've loved interesting plants since I was small, growing plants in my mother's garden and killing orchids from the yearly orchid show.…

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    Bulbs Worth Planting

    Hi GPODers, this is Joseph, your GPOD editor. Fall is here in my Indiana garden, which means bulb-planting time! I’ve been going through old pictures looking at some of my…

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    Terri’s Garden in Michigan

    We’re in Holland, Michigan, today visiting Terri Holden’s beautiful garden. It's a late summer day on the path through Terri’s garden that leads to Lake Macatawa. Terri says she enjoys…

  • New England aster
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    ‘Grape Crush’ New England Aster Is Long-Blooming and Has a Wonderful Mounding Form

    Sometimes plants are just like us gardeners and can’t wait to get going at the beginning of the season. Often our gardens trumpet forth in a symphony of color and…

  • giant agave in a pot in front of large planting of dahlias
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    Agaves in Ontario

    Alice Fleurkens in Sweaburg, Ontario, has shared her garden with us several times on the GPOD, but today she sent in some photos of a friend’s garden, which is just…

  • grouping of container plants with colorful foliage and bright flowers
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    Arianne’s Garden in Minneapolis, Part 2

    Arianne gardens in a small city lot in chilly Minneapolis (Zone 4B) and fills her space with an abundance of beautiful flowers. Even more impressively, she grows many of her…