evergreens - Fine Gardening
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DesignTop Truly Deer-Resistant Evergreens for a Beautiful, Low-Maintenance Landscape
Evergreen trees and shrubs form the structural backbone of any garden design and are invaluable for multi-season interest. They can act as focal points or they can be a backdrop…
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DesignThe Best Plants with Four-Season Interest in Your Region
Designing a garden that shines year-round starts with choosing the right plants. Regional plants adapted to your climate not only thrive with less maintenance but also offer seasonal interest in…
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DesignGPOD on the Road: Bonsai Trees at an Old Country Market
Happy Friday GPODers! For my final installment on my trip to Vancouver Island last year, I'm sharing a very fun and unexpected location that was the last place I thought…
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DesignAndy’s Best Plants for the Winter Garden
Andy Schenk of Malvern, Pennsylvania, calls his garden “Look Again Garden,” and today he is sharing some photos that will certainly make you look again, as these are some of…
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DesignGrow Heaths and Heathers for Year-Round Beauty
I often hear folks say that they hate heaths (Erica spp. and cvs., Zones 5–8) and heathers (Calluna vulgaris and cvs., Zones 5–8), their earlier blooming cousins. The most common complaints are…
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DesignExciting Broadleaf Evergreens
There are few groups of plants more valuable in the garden than broadleaf evergreens. They give the garden structure and interest when not much else is going on. This varied…
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Design9 Special Junipers with Unique Forms for the Garden
Few plants generate more revulsion in the garden than junipers. The mere suggestion of planting one often musters a similar reaction to that of saying a dirty word. Maybe we’ve…
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DesignWinter in Andy’s Garden
My name is Andy Schenck, and I garden in Malvern, Pennsylvania (a suburb of Philadelphia) in Zone 6B/7 (depending on the winter). My garden is called Look Again Garden (named…
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DesignFestive Greenery—Bringing the Outside In
As the winter creeps up and frost is evident in the world around us, many of us consider ways to stay connected with and enjoy the beauty of nature indoors.…
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DesignInteresting Broadleaf Evergreens for the Northeast
In an episode of Fine Gardening's podcast, Let's Argue About Plants, the hosts discuss the importance of evergreen plants, and the particular perks of broadleaf evergreens: "The key to any…
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