Design: Perennials
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Sally’s Garden in Maryland
Today we’re in Phoenix, Maryland, visiting Sally Barker’s beautiful garden: While my garden has been featured many times on GPOD (Sally's Garden in Maryland, Up Front , Sally's Maryland Garden),…
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GPOD on the Road: Here Come the Podophyllums, Part 2
We’re back for more of Cherry Ong’s visit to a great garden today, one that she saw on a tour organized by the Vancouver Hardy Plant Society last summer. This…
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How to Grow Poppies and Favorite Varieties
Poppies (Papaver spp. and cvs., Zones 3–9) are one of the most beloved and desirable garden flowers, but they aren't as easy to please as many sources make them out…
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GPOD on the Road: Here Come the Podophyllums!
We’re visiting another garden with Cherry Ong today, one that she saw on a tour organized by the Vancouver Hardy Plant Society last summer. This is a collector’s shade garden,…
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Elin’s Downtown Wilderness
We’re off to East Tennessee today to visit with Elin Johnson. There is a gate in the fence in the backyard of my condo in downtown Farragut, Tennessee. Walk through…
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Pollinator Plants for Mid-Atlantic Gardens
Honeybees and butterflies may be the poster children for pollinator awareness, but these charismatic garden visitors actually make up a very small portion of the species that move pollen from…
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An English-Style Garden in Tennessee
Today we’re off to Tennessee to visit Lou Ann’s garden. My neighbor Linda calls my house “the English cottage,” and I suppose there’s reason enough. I lived in Suffolk for…
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Planting Around a Patio in the Pacific Northwest
February in our region was a month of waiting for the weather to get better. Warm winds and longer days have finally arrived, and most of us are desperate to…
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Episode 154: Putting Plants to the Test with Richard Hawke
Richard Hawke is the director of ornamental plant research at Chicago Botanic Garden, where he oversees comparative evaluations of ornamental plants. The CBG Plant Evaluation Program has included 117 distinct…
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GPOD on the Road: Vancouver Garden Tour, Part 2
We’re back enjoying more photos of Cherry Ong’s visit last June to the garden of perennial gardening expert Pam Frost in Vancouver, Canada. Cherry visited as part of a tour…