Fall Plant Combinations

  • garden border with colorful shrubs and evergreen trees
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    Yvonne’s Autumn Garden

    Yvonne is sharing her garden with us again today. My garden was previously featured in the GPOD (Yvonne's Garden in Virginia and Yvonne's Woodland and Japanese Inspired Gardens). I garden…

  • large camellia shrub covered in pink flowers
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    Fall Joy

    Today we’re in Virginia visiting with Amy Birdsong. (See a previous post from her here: Lessons from Amy's Garden.) Hello, Fine Gardening! I’ve figured out why I love fall gardens so…

  • brown ornamental grasses and perennials in fall
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    Fall in John’s Garden

    My name is John Markowski. I garden in Zone 6B, in rural New Jersey, where I'm surrounded by deer and the soil is wet clay 24/7. Because of that, I…

  • Autumn Pots Minus the Mums
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    Autumn Pots Minus the Mums

    Fall mums are great, no doubt about it. They’re cheery and inexpensive, and they make a colorful impact when most plants are fading into fall oblivion. But come November, aren’t…

  • Fall in Love With Unexpected Autumn Color
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    Fall in Love With Unexpected Autumn Color

    Autumn is a glorious yet often overlooked season for container creativity. As summer annuals wane, garden centers lure us with rows and rows of ornamental cabbage and stiffly budded mums…

  • Four Container Planting Ideas for Autumn
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    Four Container Planting Ideas for Autumn

    These recipes hold up even as temperatures go down