Early Spring Garden - Fine Gardening
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Growing Hellebores: Beautiful Varieties and Care
Few genera have gone through the incredible upgrade of flowers, foliage, and performance like hellebores have in the last 20 years. I began growing them in the early 1990s in my…
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How to Grow Crocuses for a Spectacular Early Spring Display
Crocuses (Crocus spp. and cvs., Zones 3–8) are some of the most beloved plants in our gardens. They are often the first hopeful sign of spring for many of us,…
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First Signs of Spring in Indiana
It's Joseph in northern Indiana here, where a string of warm days has pushed my garden over into the earliest flowers of spring. I picked this hellebore (Helleborus hybrid, Zones…
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How to Plant Minor Bulbs for Major Impact
After a long winter nothing brings more joy than seeing the first signs of spring. With a little planning and patience, you can amplify and enhance this feeling of delight…
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Early Spring Blooms from the Mohawk Valley
Today we’re in Lee's garden, in the Mohawk Valley of New York State. We visited earlier this spring, and Lee took us on an ant’s-eye view of the developing sprouts…
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Lee’s Garden Through the Eyes of an Ant
Today we’re in the Mohawk Valley in central New York State, visiting with Lee. We’ve see Lee's beautiful garden before (Back to the Mohawk Valley), but today it is from…
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Late Winter and Early Spring in Cherry’s Garden
Cherry Ong often shares her travels to other gardens in our GPOD on the Road feature, but today we're in her beautiful home garden in British Columbia, looking at the…
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GPOD on the Road: Centennial Park Conservatory
Friend-of-the-GPOD Cherry Ong was in Toronto recently and sent us these photos from the Centennial Park Conservatory. These are specifically of a part of the greenhouse where there was a…
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First Blooms of Early Spring
It's Joseph here in Indiana! It is still early spring here, and after a mild winter the temps have turned cool again, slowing everything down—but the earliest bloomers are already…
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Early Spring in Pennsylvania
We’re visiting with Carla Z. Mudry in Malvern, Pennsylvania today: Early spring seems to have arrived. This year she came to see us in late February. To me this is…