uncommon plants
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Design
Underappreciated Trees for the Northern Plains
If your garden needs a new small tree, you should look beyond the usual candidates and add something different that will diversify your landscape. Here are some of the most…
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Design
A Cohesive Garden Built From Uncommon Plants
If I were to describe my garden as a collector’s garden, what would come to mind? Would you see an attractive, relaxing garden? Someplace you’d like to be? Or would…
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Design
Best Plants to Add Texture to Your Garden
Upon visiting my garden for the first time, a designer friend of mine walked around shaking his head, saying, “The texture, oh, the texture!” At first, I wasn’t sure this…
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Design
Unique Varieties of Common Plants
For years, my mom cooked magnificent meals with an old-school brown enamel Caloric oven. It was so vintage that you half expected to find Duck à l’Orange roasting inside. I…