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Design4 Tips for Incorporating Native Plants into Your Garden
Adding native plants into an established garden design can sometimes feel tricky or daunting. Many get tall but then flop over, quickly creep across open real estate, or generously seed…
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How-ToHow to Tell If a Plant Native to One Region Might Do Well Elsewhere
There are a number of clues that indicate the potential for a native plant to be widely adaptable. In general, this information can be found by looking at the characteristics…
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DesignGreat Native Perennials that Are Easy to Grow Almost Anywhere
Got a challenging location in your garden? You’re not alone. I have never encountered a landscape without at least one area that is difficult for growing plants. Mine is a…
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DesignGarden Tour of a Sustainable Native Plant Oasis Bursting with Fall Color
When Jeff Lorenz and Kayla Fell purchased this property in the Philadelphia suburbs, they knew they had their work cut out for them. A front and back yard of mostly…
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DesignGardens Provide Comfort and Solace at Community Hospice House
Hi GPODers! We get so many very special submissions on Garden Photo of the Day, but this one particularly so. As evident by the title, the subject matter in this…
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CollectionAll About Growing Sedges
There are people who categorize plants as either workhorses or showboats, but wouldn’t we prefer our workhorses to be showboats, and vice versa? Few plants fit that brief quite so…
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Design6 Native Sedges for the Garden
Throughout the wilds of North America, sedges can be found in almost every habitat, from mountaintops to shady wetlands to coastal sand dunes. This diversity of native habitats leads to…
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DesignThe Best Keystone Plants for Your Region and Zone
Whether we realize it or not, gardeners are at the forefront of the critical fight to repair Earth’s environmental damage being caused by climate change, and habitat and biodiversity loss due to…
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ArticleLisa’s Wildlife Haven Near the Southernmost Point of Texas
Hi GPODers! Today we're venturing to a part of the US we don't get to see very often on the blog (If you're from this area and lurking on GPOD,…
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DesignNative Plants for Fall Interest in the Southeast
Fall could easily be a time of mourning. It’s the season of withering and dying back, of shortening days and cooling nights. Yet if you look at natural areas of…
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