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The Sun Is At The Heart Of It All
With just a little encouragement to some willing volunteers, the far corner of the garden becomes a forest of color.
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San Diego Summer
I love gardening with tropicals, and in the summer my garden really feels like a tropical paradise! I collect different cannas with bold foliage, and a lot of flowers, like chamomile, nicotianas and...
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Colorado Colors
1 commentColorado offers a great opportunity to play with color and texture and form through the seasons
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Gardening in Upstate NY, way way Upstate
I live and garden in far upstate NY. I have a lot of shade so I rely heavily on shade tolerant plants. I don't let this deprive me of color and interest in my gardens as I hope you agree. We have...
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crowned arbor
Sweet Autumn clematis created the perfect encasement for the garden statue.
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Cabbage as Centerpiece
I love to intersperse red cabbages throughout my garden for definite punch. Not only do they grow to gargantuan proportions, the iridescent color causes visitors to inquire if they are...
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My Summer Color Splash Garden
A garden is not just a combination of plants; it is the combination of plants and their environment. We were looking for a way to have a garden of multiple colors to enhance our new terraced...
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Summer Garden
My garden is mostly perennials and trees but I use annuals to fill in during the spring & summer. Two of the pictures are annuals I used for pots on the deck.
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Luscious Succulent Loves : )
I love succulents because they lend color and structure to my Northern California garden throughout the year. I especially love the dark ones in these limited palette, tapestrylike...
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summer combos
The red turks cap is beautiful during summer and as fall approaches the mexican sage takes center stage as the autum joy sedum changes colors in the front. The sweet potato vine soon cascades...
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Happy Accident
I called this a Happy Accident because it wasn't a planned combination. The Queen Palm and the Spanish Bayonet grow along the side fence in my neighbor's yard. The allamanda cathartica...
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Tiger Eyes Add Bold Color to Your Landscape
1 commentTradescantia pallida ‘Purpurea’ is one of the easiest plants to grow in the landscape. Planted under the Rhus typhina 'Bailtiger' Tiger Eyes makes the gold leaves stand outnbsp...
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Tropicals in Indiana
1 commentI love tropical plants, even tho I'm gardening in zone 6a, so I created a bed just for them. Most of the color in this bed comes from foliage only.Everything will have to be dug up and...
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The best surprises grow in a shady garden
This summer combo grows in the dense shade of a southern magnolia. I planted the ferns but the hardy begonias (begonia grandis) grow each spring as they wish, popping up in new and unexpected places...
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Easy summer border
This collection of summer favorites has done well in a garden border that receives mostly shade until the late afternoon, when a hot west sun illuminates the coneflower, perilla, daylily, hardy...
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My favorite folly
2 commentsEvery year I haul this guy out of the shed and set him on the stone wall. I wait until the garden around him begins to show its colors to get my inspiration to "dress him" for the...
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In Bed
2 commentsMy antique bed is painted blue and contains this baby mannequin along with the Ageratum and Wave Petunias.
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Blood red
This combination is made up of blood grass, bright red coleus, and chartreuse sweet potatoe vine. It's next to a waterfall where there are more vines, but the eye always comes back to the red.
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About this Contest
This month we're asking you to post photos of your best summer plant combinations.
Fine Gardening's staff members will choose two winners based on beauty, creativity, and originality. The grand prize winner will receive a $150 gift certificate from DripWorks.
Complete Rules and Contest Description
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For pointers on taking great garden photos, check out this Fine Gardening article on garden photography.
