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    Finding Your Garden Style (Webinar)

    How do you begin the process of designing or refining your own gardens, especially when there are so many things that you need to take into consideration? In this class,…

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    Use Geometry to Create a Beautiful Garden Plan

    I first met Shirley Williams in 1994 while attending a landscape-design charette. These classes were conducted at several of the participants’ home gardens, including at Brigham Hill Farm, where Shirley…

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    Planting Plan for a Geometric Garden

    In Geometry Makes a Garden Better, landscape designer Warren Leach takes us through his process of designing a small garden for Peter and Shirley Williams of North Grafton, Massachusetts. Warren…

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    5 Bold Plants With Stunning Structure

    An interesting, structural layout like the one in this garden deserves interesting, structural plants. The following selections, which grow in prominent areas of the zigzag bed, provide bold accents through…

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    Mary’s Ontario Garden

    Today’s photos are from Mary in Ontario. We built our home in 2008. Our gardens have evolved over the years. The perennial garden is fun to watch go from flat…

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    How to Make Changes to an Overgrown Garden

    Twenty years ago, I began to create a long flower border against an old stone wall that runs along the west side of our 1760s Cape Cod–style house. Big skies,…

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    Jim’s Portland Garden

    Today we’re in Portland, Oregon, visiting Jim Rondone’s beautiful garden. While the more widely planted eastern redbud (Cercis canadensis, Zones 5–9) is native to the eastern half of North America,…

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    More from Chad and Seyra in Connecticut

    We’re visiting with Chad and Seyra Hammond in Woodbury, Connecticut, today. We stopped by their beautiful garden last week (Chad and Seyra's Garden), and I’m happy to be back there…

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    Return to Chad and Seyra’s Garden

    Yesterday we visited Chad and Seyra’s garden in Woodbury, Connecticut, and today we're back to see more of their beautiful plants. Like a lot of other gardeners, we love the…

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    Eric and Christopher’s Garden

    Today’s photos are from Eric and Christopher Feml-Nelsen. We are located in the Capitol Region of New York State, in a suburb of Albany called Halfmoon. We garden in Zone…