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How-ToHow to Grow Beans All Summer Long
In my father’s victory garden, we planted a single crop of beans in late spring. The endless rows came in all at once, and we spent a long, hot week…
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How-ToTips for Preparing Your Garden to Thrive Through Summer Heat in NorCal
As summer approaches it will bring with it long and sunny days, increasingly warmer temperatures, and scorching conditions that can tip our region into heatwave territory. Here on the Pacific…
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DesignExciting Container Plants for Summer
I’m particularly fond of big, gaudy plants, but I like teeny tiny ones too. Large-leaved tropical plants really take the heat and can do wonders for planters around pool decks…
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DesignLinda’s Calgary Garden
We’re visiting with Linda Grey-Martin today. Hello from Calgary, Alberta. Our climate is officially Zone 4a, although many Zone 5 plants survive in my garden. Calgary is close to the…
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ArticleTropical-Looking Plants for Hot Southern Summers
To us, tropical-looking plants are plants that thrive in the heat and that add a lot of bright color to the summer garden. They are perennial but disappear for the…
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DesignKathy’s Labor of Love
Today we’re visiting Kathy Bishop’s beautiful garden. I live in Portland, Oregon, and my garden has evolved endlessly for the past 25 years. This started as a bare quarter-acre dirt…
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DesignUrban Garden in Canada
I am Jan Le Clair from Kingston, Ontario, Canada. I have been gardening for about 15 years at this historic house, built in 1866. We are three city blocks north…
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How-ToGrowing Tomatoes in the Heat of Summer
It’s the middle of summer. The tomato plants are lush and full. If you live in the Southern parts of North America, you harvested a great crop in June, but…
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DesignLena’s Garden in Summer
Today we’re revisiting Lena White’s North Carolina garden. I submitted photos of my spring favorites (Spring in Lena's Garden), and summer has brought lots of heat to North Carolina as…
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DesignTurning an Eyesore Into a Garden
My name is Wema Mojar from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. We have an abandoned pool that had become an eyesore, so I turned it into a classic small space garden using…
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