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Unique Plants for Early Spring Containers in the Northeast

After a long, snowy winter, one of the first signs of spring for gardeners in the Northeast is early spring seasonal containers. Since spring containers are typically only displayed for…
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Containers That Celebrate Fall and Winter

As the growing season winds down and we put our gardens to bed, containers can be a creative playground going into fall and winter. The key to successful late-season containers…
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Go for Grasses to Soften Late-Season Containers—Planting Plans

Autumn is the time when grasses finally get their moment, so no fall container collection would truly be complete without giving them their due. With feather-like seed heads that catch…
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Spice Up Autumn Containers With Spiky Silhouettes—Planting Plans

Include spiky silhouettes in containers to lend a celebratory feel to your front stoop. Plants such as cordyline, featured in two of the containers below, can easily be paired with…
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Create Fall Containers With Evergreen Backbones—Planting Plans

Evergreens are a natural choice for fall and winter containers. When other plants in your pots go dormant, evergreens are a staple that help to see you through the off-season.…
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Tips and Tricks for Gardening in Containers

Are you confined to a balcony, deck, or patio and yet yearn to embrace your passion for all things horticultural? You have no reason to contain your enthusiasm. A window…
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Container Garden Design Using Just Three Plants

It’s easy to get carried away with container design, adding plants until the pot overflows. But simple designs can be stunning too, so the FG editors asked five designers to…
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Color-Blind Plant Combinations

Today we’ve got some photos that Joe Hopkins sent in, along with information about the garden by Scott Dunlap. Joe asked that I get some information to you on the…
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Underused Picks for Spring Containers

Are you getting tired of planting your spring containers with the same plant palette of pansies (Viola × wittrockiana cvs., annual), hyacinths (Hyacinthus orientalis, Zones 5–9), and sweet alyssum (Lobularia…
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The Fern Fairway

Today we’re back in Cherry Ong’s fabulous garden in British Columbia. The side garden developed this year is entirely a shade garden featuring ferns. We had so many names for…

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