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DesignA Naturalistic Garden Is Better for the Environment and Requires Less Work
Many gardens elicit a “Geez, how did they do this?” response. It is not because of massive hardscape or Versailles-level precision; rather, it is more of the sense that these…
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DesignVisiting Dana’s Garden
Today Sue Hughes is sharing a friend’s beautiful garden. I’d like to share the beautiful garden of my neighbor and friend Dana Kline. I spent the day in her garden…
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DesignA Warm-Climate Gardener Visits the North
Today’s photos are from Teresa Watkins. Living in tropical gardening Zone 9b, I'm always excited to visit my husband's family in Taunton, Massachusetts, to envy their Zone 6b gardens. This…
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DesignJoyce’s Massachusetts Garden
Today we’re visiting with Joyce Hannaford. My 22-year-old garden continues to evolve here in Natick, Massachusetts. I’ve been gardening for 70 years, and both my parents were avid gardeners. The…
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DesignGinny’s Gardening Adapting to Shade
My name is Ginny McNally, I'm from Hatboro, Pennsylvania. I'd been gardening on a small scale for about 40 years. At first I had a vegetable garden, grew all sorts…
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DesignJay’s Garden in the Mountains
Today Jay Sifford, an award-winning landscape designer in North Carolina, is sharing his home garden. For the past two years, I've been realizing a dream that I've had since childhood:…
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Collection10 Expert Tips for Designing Your Garden
In an ideal world, everyone would be able to hire a designer to help with big garden decisions. But in reality, most of us end up doing our own design…
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DesignExpert Design Advice: Let Your Senses Guide Your Garden’s Design
When you first start to think about changing part of your landscape, slow down, look, and listen. Pay attention to how the existing conditions make you feel. Is the space…
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DesignExpert Design Advice: Think Long-Term When Planning Your Garden
When it comes to big-ticket items, like a patio that will define a key outdoor room, irrigation that must be installed before anything else, or slow-growing evergreens that will be…
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DesignWe All Make Design Mistakes | Letter from the Editor
The worst birthday present I ever got was several tons of gravel dumped into my garden. It was from an accidental landslide caused by a design mistake—and it was entirely…
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