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DesignCool-Season Ornamental Grasses for Mountain Gardens
Resplendent and easygoing, cool-season grasses are those that begin to grow with vigor during temperatures of approximately 60°F through mid-70°F. In our region, they green up in mid-spring, appearing as…
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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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DesignA Guide to Growing Reed Grasses: Best-Performing Varieties and Care
As native grasses such as little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium and cvs., Zones 3–9) and prairie dropseed (Sporobolus heterolepis and cvs., Zones 3–9) increasingly gain traction in gardens, exotics such as…
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DesignEasy-Care Grasses for the Northeast
Grasses are often overlooked in Northeastern gardens. Most grasses look rather uninteresting in spring, which is when many of us buy plants for the garden. However, a trip to a…
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ArticleDry Beauty in the Garden
Today we’re visiting with Cindy Strickland, who lives in Raleigh, North Carolina. Hello, fellow gardeners. I wanted to share a variety of mostly dry plant forms with impressive persistence that…
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ArticleGPOD on the Road: Visiting a Flower Farm
Today Cherry Ong is taking us on the road to a flower farm she visited earlier this year. I've been curious about flower farms and so tried attending a flower…
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ArticleBarry’s Dawn Gardens
We’re visiting with Barry Friesen today, who is sharing photos of his beautiful garden, which he has named Dawn Gardens. Here are some photos of Dawn Gardens in Grass Valley,…
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ArticleNative Grasses for Southern California
Our gardens can be a tapestry of colors, shapes, and textures, and a fresh design takes all of these elements into consideration. But when I want a plant that hits…
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DesignGreat Medium-Size Grasses
When you think of ornamental grasses, the larger the plant, the larger the show, right? Along those same lines, many of us would agree that the smallest grasses at the…
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DesignA Banner Year in the Garden
My name is Biyuan Yang, and I garden in northern New Jersey. I have shared pictures of my garden before (click here and here), and this year my garden is…
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