Late Winter - Fine Gardening

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    Carol’s Winter Garden

    Carol in Hendersonville, North Carolina, is sharing some beauties from her winter garden with us today. The winter garden is dearly appreciated. Honeybees emerge for the snowdrops (Galanthus spp., Zones…

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    Margot’s Snowdrops

    Margot Navarre is sharing her earliest blooms with us today. She gardens in Bellevue, Washington, and we’ve visited her garden before; check out Summer in Margot's Garden if you want…

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    Late Winter and Early Spring in Cherry’s Garden

    Cherry Ong often shares her travels to other gardens in our GPOD on the Road feature, but today we're in her beautiful home garden in British Columbia, looking at the…

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    Galanthus: A Flower Carpet for the Early Spring Garden

    Today we’re in Margot Navarre’s garden in Washington State, where snowdrops are doing their annual late winter–early spring display. These classic bulbs bloom earlier than just about anything else. Moreover,…

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    Episode 129: Early Risers

    Raise your hand if seasonal affective disorder has set in for you. Yep, us too. Because the skies are gray and the landscape is mostly brown in many areas of…

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    A Tradition of Snowdrops

    Today’s photos are from Jane Donelon. Back in 2008 my son, Jim, brought my daughter, Jean, and me some snowdrops (Galanthus species and hybrids, Zones 3–8) from his New Jersey…

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    Late-Winter and Early-Spring Bloomers for Your Region

    In Jason Reeves's article Plants That Bloom in Late Winter or Early Spring, he discusses how plants that bloom during the coldest time of the year often go underappreciated: "Some…

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    Late-Winter and Early-Spring Bloomers for the Northern Plains

    In Jason Reeves' article Plants That Bloom in Late Winter or Early Spring, he discusses how plants that bloom during the coldest time of the year, often go underappreciated: "Some…

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    Late-Winter and Early-Spring Bloomers for the Southern Plains

    In Jason Reeves' article Plants That Bloom in Late Winter or Early Spring, he discusses how plants that bloom during the coldest time of the year, often go underappreciated: "Some…

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    Late-Winter and Early-Spring Bloomers for the Southwest

    In Jason Reeves' article Plants That Bloom in Late Winter or Early Spring, he discusses how plants that bloom during the coldest time of the year, often go underappreciated: "Some…