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  • Design

    Tropics in the Sunroom

    We visited Barbara Cain’s beautiful garden in Norwell, Massachusetts, in the summer, and she recently shared some images of escaping from the cold winter in California. Today she’s sharing a…

  • Design

    Lessons Learned in a Gardening Life

    Today we’re visiting the garden of Luana Carpenter in Massillon, Ohio. My parents were wonderful gardeners so I guess I was lucky to get the gardening bug from them. After…

  • Article

    Feeding Butterflies, Hummingbirds, and the Soul, Part 1

    Welcome to Lila Johnson's garden! My husband and I live in Mill Creek, Washington, about 20 miles north of Seattle. Our garden is always a work in progress, but we…

  • Design

    A Garden in 40 Shades of Green

    Emmanuel Touhey sent us these photos of his garden in Burke, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C. This is my first real American garden. Born and raised in Ireland, I moved…

  • Design

    An Artful Garden

    Today’s artful photos come from Bindy Jane French-Wright. I reside year round in a tiny house in the beautiful Georgian Bay area in Ontario, Canada. I purchased my property some…

  • Article

    Japanese Irises

    A recent visit to the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden in Richmond, Virginia, coincided with peak bloom of its wonderful collection of Japanese irises (Iris ensata, Zones 3–9). Unlike their more…

  • Article

    Peony Extravaganza!

    Joe Koller sent in today’s photos of peonies. These photos were taken on May 27 at Alan Summers' gardens in Zone 7 in northern Maryland. He opened his gardens to…

  • How-To

    Dividing Irises

    I know many gardeners have a strong aversion to division. But as a gardening mentor of mine used to say, if it’s all right to remodel the house, it’s all…