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Enchanting Japanese Maples
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Soil Testing is Worth the Effort
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Perfect Edges for Your Beds and Borders
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Garden Catalog Collector
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How to Grow Raspberries
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Design an Engaging Entryway
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15 Deer-Resistant Plants
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Viburnums are Versatile Shrubs
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Variegated Plants Create Drama
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Backyard Makeover Game
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Video: Make a Straw-Bale Garden
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How to Start a Vegetable Garden
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Find the Perfect Tomato
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Cool-Season Annuals
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A Gardener's Checklist for Early Spring
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Friendly Ways to Battle Garden Pests
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All About Starting Seeds
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Building a Compost Bin
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Sweetly Scented Tulips
Garden Photo of the Day
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Califonia dreamin'
9 commentsI'm in the midst of planning a trip to California, leaving next week, to go to the San Francisco Flower & Garden Show, and to visit with some of my favorite gardening people. Among them are...
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READER PHOTOS! Freeland and Sabrina's garden in California
7 commentsToday's photos and tip were sent in by Rebecca Sweet, one of my favorite people/garden designers. She visited garden designers Freeland and Sabrina Tanner at their garden and home in Napa...
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Luscious leaves
1 commentThis understaed combo is all about foliage. It almost begs you to lean down and touch the leaves. Who needs flowers with textures like these? Included is 'Catlin's Giant' carpet bugleweed Ajuga...
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Yellow lambs' ears done right
6 commentsThe thought of a yellow lambs' ears (Stachys byzantina 'Primrose Heron', USDA Hardiness Zones 4-8) could make you cringe if you haven't seen one before. But this combo designed by Freeland and...
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Watering cans as garden ornaments
5 commentsHere are two charming ways to display collections of vintage watering cans. The first is from Sabrina and Freeland Tanner's garden in Napa, California. The second was taken in a garden in...
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Another sweeping statement
11 commentsSpeaking of sweeps (see Friday's post), here's another inspired sweep of plants from Freeland and Sabrina Tanner in their garden in Napa, California. This time it's a border of lamb's ears Stachys...
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Break out of your 'Aureola' rut
9 commentsWhen most people think of Japanese forest grass (Hakonechloa macra cvs., USDA Hardiness Zones 5-9), they automatically think of the most popular and most commonly available cultivar 'Aureola'. But...
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Mix it up with succulents!
2 commentsSucculents mix with more traditional perennials and shrubs in Sabrina and Freeland Tanner's garden in Napa, California. Here, agaves are paired with a 'Red Dragon' persicaria Persicaria...
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A garden gate fit for a....gardener!
18 commentsFreeland Tanner created this gate from garden tools to welcome visitors to his enclosed vegetable garden. Freeland's collections of garden tools can be seen all over the garden he shares with his...
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Floral synchronicity
4 commentsSome plant combos just can't be planned. In the garden of Sabrina and Freeland Tanner in Napa, California, it was just pure luck that this clematis vine wandered into the euphorbia and they decided...
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Whisper-soft texture at dusk
1 commentIn the garden of Sabrina and Freeland Tanner in Napa, California, a lantern is tucked into a low sweep of feather grass (Stipa sp., USDA Hardiness Zones 7-11), which just serves to enhance the...
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