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Design‘Grape Crush’ New England Aster Is Long-Blooming and Has a Wonderful Mounding Form
Sometimes plants are just like us gardeners and can’t wait to get going at the beginning of the season. Often our gardens trumpet forth in a symphony of color and…
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Design‘Traveler’ Hemlock Is Resistant to Wooly Adelgid
If you’ve been heartbroken by the loss of a hemlock tree (Tsuga spp. and cvs., Zones 3–8) to woolly adelgid, you’re not alone. Researchers at the U.S. National Arboretum have…
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Design‘Blue Glimmer’ Sea Holly Adds a Sparkle to the Garden
Like many people, I periodically enjoy scrolling through social media to admire gardens. It’s a wonderful way to get a quick dose of beauty and to discover new plants. During…
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DesignPurple Roscoea Will Bring a Touch of the Exotic to Your Garden
We love plants—nearly all of them, truth be told—but it is without the slightest bit of hyperbole when we say that Roscoea is one of our favorite genera. Part of…
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DesignAn Effortless Evergreen Fern
A few years ago we hiked the 268-mile (but who’s counting?) Pennine Way in England, sharing part of the trail with a fellow named Jack, who was walking the 1,215-mile…
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DesignThis Fast-Growing, Drought-Tolerant Shrub Is Great for Hedges and Screening
If you encounter this shrub when it is sending out new growth, you will do a double take. The fiery red foliage is absolutely stunning. Of course, once the leaves…
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DesignA Disease-Resistant Bee Balm
Hooray for botanist John Bartram, who brought Monarda didyma back to Philadelphia from Oswego, New York, in the 1740s. He marveled at the scented leaves and abundance of color, and…
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DesignA Zinnia That Wins Awards and Turns Heads
If this zinnia were on a dating app, it would be a solid swipe right. ‘Queeny Lime Orange’—which opens in warm shades of lime, yellow, peach, salmon, and orange—is like…
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DesignA Silk Tassel Bush With Superb Winter Blooms
Garrya is a genus of just eight species of evergreen shrubs to small trees confined to western North America and northern Mexico. Of these eight species, only two or three,…
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DesignThis Underutilized Dwarf Conifer Is a Great Boxwood Substitute
Japanese cedar is an extremely beautiful, variable, and overlooked conifer that offers much appeal in the landscape. Not an actual cedar at all, Japanese cedar is in the genus Cryptomeria,…
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