Spring Interest

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    Plan for an Early Spring Show With Wood Anemones

    Several species of ephemeral, small understory anemones (Anemone spp. and cvs., Zones 3–11) are lumped together as the woodland or wood anemones. They include mainly European wood anemone, yellow wood…

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    Long Island Garden Tour

    Today we’re visiting Lee Miller’s garden. Welcome to my late May–early June garden! I am a Long Island, New York, native, having grown up, and still residing, in the friendly…

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    Midspring Pleasures

    Today we’re in Northern California, enjoying the pleasures of Donna Vail’s riverside garden. Living on the banks of a river can be a gardening challenge when the view makes you…

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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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    Spring Into Summer: 6 Garden-Bed Designs to Try This Year

    Every garden should have something going on after spring flowers fade and before the summer show really gets going. But in some gardens, this in-between season is punctuated mainly by…

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    An Undisciplined Garden

    My name is Cheryl Henley. I have been gardening in the heavy, rocky, clay soils of the Wasatch Mountain foothills at about 4000 feet for 30 years. My husband and…

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    Favorite Moments in Susie’s Garden

    Today we’re visiting Susie Talbot’s garden, reliving some beautiful moments of spring and summer. Tulips afire! Sunlight coming behind these blooms sets them off with pure magic. I want to…