sunflowers - Fine Gardening

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    How to Grow Annual Sunflowers for Pollinators and Wildlife

    As we enter the dog days of summer, many of us are buzzing about with trips to the beach, firing up the old grill, and celebrating our country’s independence. In…

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    Enjoy Cheery Late-Summer Blooms from ‘Happy Days’ Sunflower

    Adding a splash of sunflower sunshine is a whole lot easier with this dwarf hybrid. It is a perfect fit mixed into large borders or showcased in tight spaces. A…

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    Naturalistic Garden in New Jersey

    Today we’re in Hopewell, New Jersey, visiting with Courtney and Denys Turner. We have worked very hard to create hardy but beautiful perennial borders in our back and front gardens,…

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    GPOD on the Road: Visiting a Flower Farm

    Today Cherry Ong is taking us on the road to a flower farm she visited earlier this year. I've been curious about flower farms and so tried attending a flower…

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    A Sunflower Festival

    Today, regular GPOD contributor Cherry Ong from British Columbia, Canada, is sharing photos from a trip she took recently. Thought your readers would enjoy some photos from my visit to…

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    Looking Back at Summer

    Thomas Charbonneau gardens in St. Paul, Minnesota, in frigid Zone 4, where winter has abruptly ended this year’s gardening. So today we’re joining him in looking back at the summer…

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    Melancholy Time of Year

    Today we’re visiting Jana Trusz’s garden in Canton, Massachusetts. I love checking out the Garden Photos of the Day, and I find great joy and inspiration in looking at these…

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    Visitors to a Southern Georgia Garden

    Today Melanie Folk is sharing photos from her garden in southern Georgia. Melanie has a yard full of dragonflies and loves to capture them up close to see the beauty…

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    More Sunflowers, More Wildlife

    Today’s photos come from Lisa McMillin in Boise, Idaho. I live in Boise’s historic North End, in a bungalow more than 100 years old. I’ve been gardening for 30 years,…

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    July Means Daylilies

    Today our good friend Carla Zambelli Mudry is welcoming us back to her garden in Malvern, Pennsylvania. July means daylilies—lots and lots of daylilies! And sunflowers, hydrangeas, milkweed, echinacea, and…