Hedge - Fine Gardening
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Design
Jill’s New Zealand Garden
Today we’re visiting with Jill Hammond. I very much enjoy getting your daily photos of gardens from around the world, most of which seem to be in the Northern Hemisphere.…
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Design
Evergreen 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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Design
A Garden That’s Younger Than It Looks
They never weeded a bed or planted a seed, but our four teenagers were heartbroken to leave the big garden of their childhood. Why couldn’t we wait 10 years? Where…
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Design
Adapting English Elegance
It took about five years and two road trips through England before Anne Campodonico was ready to start her garden. True, the Kentfield, California, mother of three wasn’t in a…
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Design
Where Formal and Natural Meet
Everyone has been to a house that has a “do-not-touch” room in it. It might be a living room with plastic covers on the couches or a dining room with…
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Design
Designing an Intimate Space
Many people like to have a garden for entertaining, but most of us also want our gardens to be a spot where we relax and get away from it all.…
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How-To
How to Trim a Formal Hedge
For straight sides and a flat top, use stakes and string as a guide
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Plant Guide
‘Velvet Cloak’ smoke tree
Cotinus coggygria ‘Velvet Cloak'This shrub or small tree has stunning deep purple foliage that turns orange-red in autumn.
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Plant Guide
Cotinus coggygria ‘Ancot’
Cotinus coggygria 'Ancot'This specimen is grown for its stunning golden leaves, which turn to brilliant shades of orange and red in autumn.
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Plant Guide
‘Korean Gold’ plum yew
Cephalotaxus harringtonia 'Korean Gold'This slow-growing dwarf conifer has a wide, rounded crown and narrowly furrowed, partially peeling bark.