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DesignA Garden Sanctuary From the City
Greetings! My name is Jan Le Clair, and I live in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. I have been gardening for about 15 years at our current house, an 1866 historic Victorian…
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DesignAn Early Spring Plant With a Tropical Sizzle
About 40 years ago on a visit to Maryland, I went to a colonial house and garden. It was a cold, blustery day, and the snow had only just melted…
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DesignSummer on Bainbridge Island
Today we’re taking another trip back in time to gardens at their summer peak. This time it's with Linda Skyler, who sent in these photos of her Bainbridge Island garden…
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DesignBeauty in the Shade
When we moved to our little red house on one and a half acres in 1977, I was 26 years old, just married, and beginning to rediscover myself after my…
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DesignThree Years in a New Garden
My name is Suzanne Hens, and I've been gardening for twenty years in North Carolina. I moved three years ago to Raleigh and have slowly been transforming a blank canvas…
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DesignLady and Painted Ferns—Trial Results
If you’re like me, you find that plants come in and out of favor all the time. A few years ago, I was all over blue grama grass (Bouteloua gracilis,…
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DesignEye-Catching Plants for Dry Shade
Dry shade is arguably the toughest gardening condition to deal with, yet it’s one of the most commonly encountered. Virtually any yard with a nearby established tree canopy benefits from…
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ArticleInspiration for Shade Gardens
Today, frequent GPOD contributor Cherry Ong is giving us another look at a less-visited part of Butchart Gardens in British Columbia: the bog garden. (Her previous post is here.) She says: Tucked…
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DesignColorful Plants for Shade
Nothing has taught me more about gardening than actual work in the garden. Among the lessons learned is that there should be no lack of color in the shade. Why…
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Design10 Ground Covers for Shade
It is often the case that we gardeners find ourselves with a shady corner in our yard where nothing grows. What we long for is one plant that will take…
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