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    Connie’s New Garden

    Today’s photos are from Connie Raines in Georgia. I am a hobby gardener and a professional interior designer. I learned about plants and flowers while tending my own small city…

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    Roger and Linda’s Florida Garden

    We are Roger and Linda. We live in Pompano Beach, Florida. We have built this little paradise, which is our pride and joy. We cherish every moment that we sit…

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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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    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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    Winter Beauty in Bonnie’s Garden

    We’re visiting with Bonnie Plikaytis in north Georgia today. One of the most difficult design features for me to accomplish in my Zone 7 woodland garden is to incorporate winter…

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    10 Bold Plants for Winter Interest in the Southeast

    Without a doubt one of the best parts about gardening in the Southeast is winters that are temperate yet still bring seasonality to the garden. I’m grateful that we don’t…

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    Belinda’s Florida Garden

    Hi, I am Belinda Smith Lawson. I live in Riverview, Florida, which is Zone 9. "My garden is seven years old. I have growing beds in my front, back and…

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    Scaly Liatris Is a Native That Offers Blooms All Summer Long

    On the first day of August 2006, my botanizing companion and I were making only our third trip to a barrens on a farm owned by friends in Kentucky. We…

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    Julie’s Garden in Late Summer and Fall

    This is Julie Prince (Julie's Georgia Garden), with a few pictures from the late summer and fall garden. The pool garden was started in the summer of 2020. The front-drive…

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    Plants That the Herbivores Will Avoid in the South

    Fionuala Campion says in her article, Dazzling Deer-Resistant Perennials, "Though very graceful and delightful to behold in their native habitat, deer are a voracious force to reckon with in many…