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Hugh’s Celebration of Annuals From Seed, Part 1
Today we are visiting Hugh Locke’s garden in Shrub Oak, New York. Hugh’s Zone 6 garden has been showcased before (check it out here), but today’s photos are all annuals (plus…
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GPOD on the Road: Visiting a Flower Farm
Today Cherry Ong is taking us on the road to a flower farm she visited earlier this year. I've been curious about flower farms and so tried attending a flower…
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Flowers and Visitors in Nancy’s Garden
Today’s photos are from Nancy Stewart. I live near Syracuse, New York. I’ve been gardening most of my adult life. (I’m now 84 years old.) I am getting more into…
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Design
What’s New With Coneflowers?
I think many gardeners oscillate between loving and hating coneflowers—I know I do. It’s a phenomenon I’ve observed for nearly 20 years. I was there at the turn of the…
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Backyard Butterfly Garden
Welcome to Libby Breitenbaugh’s butterfly garden! I live in Irmo, South Carolina. I have a medium-size butterfly garden that is three years old and very much a work in progress.…
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Gardening Highlights From Tennessee
Today we’re heading to Arrington, Tennessee, to visit Laurel Nash Prothro’s garden. Greetings! I just wanted to send a few highlights from my gardening year 2018, and I am excited…
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Waves of Coneflowers
Welcome to Genny Hood’s Illinois garden! I live southeast of Mechanicsburg, Illinois, on a farm with my husband, Bill. I’ve been flower gardening for many years. In the spring, my…
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Making a Garden That Takes the Drought
Ellie Gilbert of Plymouth, Massachusetts, sent in these photos earlier in the summer, when she said that they had been having terribly dry weather and the garden was struggling a bit.…
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Marrying Garden Design to Architecture
Today’s photos come from Jac Blanco in Detroit. We purchased this house two years ago (July 2016), and at that time the front was not visible from the street because…
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Envisioning a Dream Garden
Today's photos come from Petra Donnelly. Here's what she has to say: I live in Markham, Ontario. Approximately 10 years ago I had a vision of a totally grass-free property…