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    Looking Back at Last Year’s Garden with Joan

    Today’s photos are from Joan Ganley. My garden in January is always a cold and snowy place. Looking out on the snowy landscape, I make notes of where I might…

  • close up of snowdrops growing in early spring
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    Early Spring in Pennsylvania

    We’re visiting with Carla Z. Mudry in Malvern, Pennsylvania today: Early spring seems to have arrived. This year she came to see us in late February. To me this is…

  • close up of classic Galanthus flowers
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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,…

  • spring plants and bulbs on both sides of a brick path
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    Dodie’s Alabama Garden

    My name is Dodie. I’ve been gardening in northern Alabama for 15 years. Our urban property is in a historic neighborhood in Decatur. It had a wonderful backbone of plantings…

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    Hannah’s Minnesota Garden

    My name is Hannah, and I garden in Zone 4, in southeastern Minnesota. I have a full-sun garden that I started in 2017 when we built our home on our…

  • close up of a clump of double snowdrops
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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…

  • close up of Fritillaria flowers
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    Bulbs in Northeastern Ohio

    Todays photos are from Kathryn (Kit) Jensen. I garden in a small suburban yard in Zone 6a in northeastern Ohio (South Euclid). During the pandemic it was a focus and…

  • mass plantings of blue grape hyacinths with yellow daffodils and orange tulips
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    GPOD on the Road: Keukenhof

    Keukenhof is an iconic park in Lisse, the Netherlands. It sits in the heart of the bulb-growing region and is an over-the-top showcase of the region's most famous export. These…

  • close up of bulb with white and pink flowers
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    Bulbgirl’s Unusual Plants

    Today’s posts are from a gardener who goes by the name "bulbgirl" on Instagram. As you can imagine, bulbgirl grows a lot of very cool bulbs! She lives in southwest…

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    Plant a Succession of Unique Spring-Flowering Bulbs

    Planting spring-flowering bulbs in fall is an easy way to bring joy to the garden in the following year. This group of plants brings with them tremendous excitement and early…