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Design
Tropical Beauty in Maui
Today Margaret Pettit is sharing some photos of tropical beauty from Maui! If it is still cold where you garden, prepare to indulge in a little tropical escapism. A brilliant…
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Design
Design for a Late-Summer Show
Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, has a truly spectacular trial garden. For the past several years, this space has served as a design laboratory where the garden staff can…
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Article
The Great Houseplant Migration
I’m not much of a houseplant person during the warm part of the year. In fact, virtually all my house plants spend the summer outside on the patio, where they’re…
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Design
How to Create Beautiful Houseplant Containers
I started collecting houseplants in 1979, right about the time I found James Underwood Crockett’s houseplant book, Crockett’s Indoor Garden, at a garage sale for 50 cents. I was a…
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Article
Spice Up Your Garden With Tropical Beauties
Today’s photos come from Barbara Cain of Norwell, Massachusetts, who shares some of the beauties from her garden this year. Many of these plants are tender perennials—tropical plants that can’t…
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How-To
Bring It In!
Tropical plants are a major part of my home garden. It requires effort to lift them every fall and replant them in spring, but it’s worth it to have a…
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Article
Making a Jungle in the North
Michael Passarello shared his garden in North Stamford, Connecticut, with us last week, and he happily sent in some more photos for us to enjoy today. Michael is a garden…
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Article
A Jungle in New England
Today’s photos come from Michael Passarello’s garden in North Stamford, Connecticut. I am a gardener that has one of the most unusual gardens in Connecticut. I began it almost 20…
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Design
All About Growing Coleus
Choose from colorful trailing, medium-, or large-size plants to add pizzazz to containers and borders
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Article
Costa Rica
While much of the country has been besieged with snowstorms and below-average temperatures, it is summer in Costa Rica. I had the great fortune of a recent visit there--let these…