Plant Seasonal Interest - Fine Gardening

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    Barbara’s Beginning of Spring in Massachusetts

    Hi GPODers! Here in New England, where I'm based, spring is in full bloom. After several weeks of temperatures swinging above and below freezing at night and plenty of April…

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    GPOD on the Road: Keukenhof Garden Park, Part 2

    Hi GPODers! Welcome back for Day 2 at  Keukenhof Park in Lisse, Netherlands with Kielian DeWitt! If you missed yesterday's batch of photos, check them out here: Part 1. These expansive…

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    GPOD on the Road: Keukenhof Garden Park, Part 1

    Happy Monday GPODers! If you saw our post on Friday (Check it out here if you missed it: Kielian in the Netherlands), you know which iconic garden we're visiting today.…

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    GPOD on the Road: Kielian in the Netherlands

    Happy Friday, GPODers!! For the past several weeks we’ve been enjoying spring gardens all across North America, but today we’re joining Kielian DeWitt on her recent trip to one of…

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    So Much Spring in Angie’s Arkansas Garden

    Hi GPODers! The week is winding down, but spring gardens are really starting to heat up. Angie Caruthers in Arkansas has submitted her spring garden, exemplifies the rapid growth of…

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    Carla’s Mid-Spring Foliage in Pennsylvania

    Hi GPODers! Yesterday we enjoyed the colorful array of mid-spring flowers in Carla Zambelli Mudry’s woodland garden (if you missed that post, check it out here: Part 1). Today we’re…

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    Carla’s Mid-Spring Flowers in Pennsylvania

    Hi GPODers! The queen of spring is back! At the end of March we were treated to the earliest blooms in Carla Zambelli Mudry’s garden in Malvern, Pennsylvania—if you missed…

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    Lizzi’s Springtime in Walla Walla

    Happy Monday, GPODers! There are many gardens we’ve been enjoying on the blog for years now, and it’s always incredible to see the changes that occur from season to season…

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    GPOD on the Road: Daffodils in Connecticut

    Happy Friday, GPODers! As I teased in the Earth Day post last Tuesday, I’m sharing my photos from a recent trip to the annual daffodil display at Laurel Ridge, in…

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    Adriana’s Pride of Madeira in Spring

    Hi GPODers! This season we’ve enjoyed the beauty of a range of fabulous spring plants: flowering trees and shrubs in a vast array of sizes and shapes, bold bulbs that…