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Our most beloved garden helpers

mgervais, Associate Editor | June 28th, 20115 comments

As promised in yesterday's post, today is dedicated to the pets we've met in gardens across the country. We can't help but snap a few photos of them when we're on photo shoots. After all, they can...

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A Hunter in the garden

mgervais, Associate Editor | June 27th, 201110 comments

We finished off last week with Lynn Felici-Gallant's container creations, and we'll start this week with her dog, Hunter, in her garden. Hunter is Lynn's gardening companion, and has quite a story...

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Less can be more in containers

mgervais, Associate Editor | June 24th, 20119 comments

Lest you think Lynn Felici-Gallant only designs window boxes (see yesterday's post), check out this simple, gorgeous container she designed with just ‘Belle Blanche’ datura (Datura metel...

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What Of Garden Roses?

PFZimmerman, contributor | June 23rd, 20111 comment

In the last post we did on rose history we talked about the impact of the Hybrid Tea roses. But what of Garden Roses during the Hybrid Tea era??

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Wonderful windowboxes

mgervais, Associate Editor | June 23rd, 20117 comments

Window boxes aren't a common sight on my travels. Perhaps they're considered old-fashioned, or maybe high maintenance? I'm happy to see that garden designer Lynn Felici-Gallant is filling the...

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Giant lady's slippers

mgervais, Associate Editor | June 22nd, 20119 comments

I'm getting super-excited to visit Stonecrop Gardens this weekend. But I'm sad that I won't get to see this beautiful sight again, since this was taken more than a month earlier last year. This stand...

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Free Ticket Giveaway: 2011 Garden Conservancy Open Days

Ruth, Web producer | June 21st, 201122 comments

Post a comment by July 6 for a chance to win a pair of tickets to the private garden tour of your choice.

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Push your Pot off the Patio and into the Plants!

mgervais, Associate Editor | June 21st, 20117 comments

Containers aren't just for patios and decks, they can also be used as focal points within a planting. Scott Endres pushed this pot off the patio and into the border in his St. Paul, Minnesota, garden. The...

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20 Top Picks: Garden Photo of the Day

Ruth, Web producer | June 20th, 20113 comments

Here's a sampling of popular posts, as rated by our readers' recommendations and comments. It's just a sampling of what you get when you sign up for the Garden Photo of the Day eLetter.

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Similar plants make a subtle tapestry

mgervais, Associate Editor | June 20th, 20119 comments

Walking around the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, this might be the last plant combo you'd notice, tucked under a few shrubs near the exit. But when you've walked around as many public gardens as I...

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Matchy-matchy! (In a good way)

mgervais, Associate Editor | June 17th, 20115 comments

Can succulents GET any cooler? I snapped this shot in a garden in California a few years ago. I love how the peachy stems match the peachy wall, and how the cascading lotus vine (Lotus berthelotii...

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Cornerstone Sonoma: Where Art, Imagination, and Plants Come to Play

CoolGreenGardens, contributor | June 16th, 20111 comment

I had heard so many wondrous things about Cornerstone: Festival of Gardens. It was one of those breathlessly spoken, Oh, you have to go there, places my designer friends insisted I visit.

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Simple Fertilizing of Roses. Part 3

PFZimmerman, contributor | June 16th, 20112 comments

In the third part of the series Simple Fertilizing Of Rose we talk about using a product that is probably as old as life itself.

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READER PHOTO! A second season in a Utah garden

mgervais, Associate Editor | June 16th, 20116 comments

Way back on May 12th, I posted a photo from Sarah Post Lee (refresh your memory here) that showed her spring garden in St. George, Utah, that utilizes lots of winter-hardy annuals for early color...

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Toddler in the berry patch!

Ruth, Web producer | June 15th, 20115 comments

Nearly a year has passed since my granddaughter first ventured into the basil patch, and now, on the cusp of two, she is mobile and decisive. It's June, and in Connecticut that means ripening...

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READER PHOTOS! Time to leave the nest, kiddies...

mgervais, Associate Editor | June 14th, 20118 comments

Remember when I posted Pam Wittenberg's photos of the hummingbird nest she'd found and some shots of the babies, begging for food from their mother? Click here to refresh your memory. That was just a...

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READER PHOTO! The cicadas are back....

mgervais, Associate Editor | June 13th, 20117 comments

Today's photo is from Susan Stork in Jefferson City, Missouri. She says, "The 13-year cicadas have invaded the mid-west and we hear their daily mating call, see the exo-skeletons on the trees and in...

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Veggie trellising ideas from Longwood Gardens

mgervais, Associate Editor | June 10th, 201111 comments

It's impossible to come away from a visit to Longwood Gardens without some serious inspiration. Check out these interesting ideas for trellising veggies with humble materials. Time to dig out...

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Rejuvenating An Old Climbing Rose

PFZimmerman, contributor | June 9th, 2011

You may have read the that it's good to occasionally take out an old cane at the base of a climbing rose. But why should you do this and does it help. Our video answers your questions.

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From orange to purple

mgervais, Associate Editor | June 9th, 20113 comments

Let's move counterclockwise to the other side of the color wheel today and enjoy two purple combos with some of my all-time favorite plants. Photo #1: Chanticleer Garden in Wayne, Pennsylvania. A...

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