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Containers With Serious Contrast Always Stand Out
How often do you return home from an expensive assault on the local nursery to find that, ultimately, your container design is disappointing for reasons you cannot quite explain? Creating…
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Making Perfect Vignettes in the Garden
Today’s photos come from Russell Camp. For his day job, he manages about 2,400 acres of school campus landscapes and sports turf for a large K-12 district near Atlanta. If…
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Plants That Worked This Summer
Cherry Ong of Richmond, British Columbia, has contributed to the GPOD many times (if you’ve missed seeing her earlier posts, check out this one of some of her amazing gardens),…
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Bringing Bright Colors to Small Spaces
Tamara Kljaic sent in today’s photos from her mother’s garden in Rockford, Illinois. Her mother is a lifelong lover of flowers, and these are some of her favorite images from…
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Carefully Chosen Colors Bring a Garden Together
My name is Carol Verhake. I’m the current president of the Hardy Plant Society Mid-Atlantic Group and a landscape designer in Berwyn, Pennsylvania, in the Philadelphia suburbs. My passion for…
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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…
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Gardening With Controlled Chaos
Lisa Stone shared today’s photos with us. Here’s what she had to say: I've been gardening at Penner-Ash Winery in Newberg, Oregon, for about 10 years. I am a gardener…
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A Perfect Combination: Daylilies and Hydrangeas
Carla Zambelli sent in a bunch of really wonderful photos of her garden in high summer, but I was particularly caught by those showing daylilies planted with hydrangeas. Carla says…
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Designing With Green
This ubiquitous color, when used well, can be just as exciting as vibrant flowers
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Spring in the Pacific Northwest
Linda Skylar wrote in and said this: My husband and I were recently on the “Bainbridge in Bloom” garden tour, and these are some photos my husband took of our…