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Easy Garden Winners: 8 Of The Best Low-Maintenance Plants For Your Garden
The easiest plants to grow are often some of the most stunning in color, texture and fragrance. Here are some of the best low-maintenance plants for beds and borders
By Mary Ellen Ellis
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Essential Late Summer Gardening Guide: What You Need To Do Before Fall Arrives
Think things are starting to quieten down as fall approaches? Think again! We round up the key late summer gardening tasks you need to focus on now
By Amy Grant
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Need Floral Inspiration For Your Raised Bed? Try These Raised Flower Bed Ideas
Were you thinking raised beds were purely the domain of exciting edible gardening? Prepare to be dazzled, as we reveal the best raised flower bed ideas to try
By Mary Ellen Ellis
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My Father’s Garden - A Trip Back in Time and Sunday Soup
On Father's Day, our editor Caroline reflects on how her father and his garden changed over the years, and how it's changed her own outlook going forward.
By Caroline Bloomfield
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Old-Fashioned Flowers And Plants That Will Transport You To Another Time
Fancy bringing some old world beauty and elegance to your space? These nine old-fashioned flowers can help you add a touch of nostalgia and romance
By Mary Ellen Ellis
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7 Sustainable Trends All Gardeners Should Take From The UK's Chelsea Flower Show
The RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024 is championing sustainability, with a focus on water conservation and creating resilient landscaping schemes in the face of climate change. Discover the key ideas to take away for your own garden.
By Melanie Griffiths
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How to Grow Yarrow in Containers
Besides being pretty, yarrow is versatile, aromatic and medicinal and grows well in a container. Yarrow is happy in a number of different conditions and is not fussy about soil.
By Daniel Mowinski
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Top 10 Questions About Yucca
By Bonnie Grant
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Top 10 Questions About Nasturtiums
Nasturtiums are beautiful and the flowers are edible. Read about the top 10 questions we get about nasturtium plants.
By Laura Miller
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How To Kill Multiflora Rose Bushes - My Battle With Wild Rose Bushes
If there is one weed I despise seeing in my yard, it's the multiflora rose bush. These wild rose bushes have thorns which snag and grab me whenever I get close.
By Laura Miller
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7 Key Trends We’re Taking From The Philadelphia Flower Show
Showcasing dazzlingly flamboyant floral arrangements and landscaping designs, the Philadelphia Flower Show 2024 also revealed the key themes that should be on every gardener's agenda this year.
By Melanie Griffiths
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Top 10 Questions About Weeds
By Mary Ellen Ellis
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Grow These 8 Lunar New Year Plants For The Year Of The Dragon
The Year of the Dragon can inspire us to grow with courage and vision – but which flowers bring the most prosperity and fortune? We round up the luckiest Lunar New Year plants
By Janey Goulding
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The Grow Garden at GIVE - 2022 Grant Recipient
This alternative school in Georgia is using its garden to teach kids in all new ways.
By Caroline Bloomfield
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Cyber Lime Plants: Grow The 2024 Color Of The Year In Your Garden
If you’ve yet to sample the surprising cyber lime – the Garden Media Group’s 2024 Color of the Year – this is your chance to see how gorgeous it can be in plants and flowers
By Amy Grant
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Futuristic Plants: How To Grow A Futuristic Garden
What will we be growing in the future? Global changes and plant breakthroughs mean little is certain, but here we consider futuristic plants and likely gardening innovations
By Amy Grant
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Common Ground Community Garden - 2022 Grant Recipient
This Texas community garden has been getting people out of their apartments and into nature for 12 years.
By Caroline Bloomfield