Hedge - Fine Gardening
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DesignDeter Trespassers with These Plants for Home Security
In my neighborhood, there is a lot of chatter between neighbors about home security. We watch and look for strangers that may be up to mischief, let each other know…
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DesignJill’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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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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DesignA 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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DesignAdapting 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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DesignWhere 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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DesignDesigning 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-ToHow 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 GuideCotinus 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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