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Hot and Cold Grasses
Grasses are like annuals in which temperatures characterize their growing preferences. They are either cool-season or warm-season. Unfortunately this distinction is not clear when nurseries and garden...
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3 Seasonal Servings of Grasses
The prevailing trend of massing grasses for optimal visual effect overshadows the powerful impact of grasses as solitary specimens that can bring light or movement to plantings. Above are three...
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Northwest Perennial Alliance’s Perennial Border at Bellevue Botanical Garden
As any seasoned gardener will tell you, revamping or renovating an established garden isn’t an easy feat completed within a day’s work. Perennial weeds take hold, weaker plants fade away, and woody...
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5-10-5: Philippe Lévesque of Balmoral Gardens
Perhaps one of the youngest, if not the most well-traveled nurserymen in North America, French-Canadian Philippe Lévesque operates a small-scale specialist nursery, Balmoral Gardens, northeast of...
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Dichotomy of a Modern Garden: Bury Court
It is rare to find a garden that is a product of two designers - especially one runs the risk of creating a bipolar identity. Bury Court represents the fulcrum of two designers whose styles seem...
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Lumina
Dear Jimmy, Your post on the Spanish artist Joaquín Sorolla had me contemplating about light. We should practice ‘luminism’ more in gardening. Light is perhaps the most misunderstood and poorly...
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Perennial Favorites
A good garden should have a few workhouse plants that look good regardless of the growing season, one or two rarities that need a bit of cosseting or sheltered protection, and a smattering of annuals,...
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Anatomy of a Garden: Stone Arches
Although the winters can be long and snowy, the cooler summers (warm days and cool nights) are perfect for herbaceous perennials and woody plants hardy enough to withstand the climate (Zone 5B to Zone...
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5-10-5: Austin Eischeid, Garden Designer
Through the gardening network, Austin and I were introduced online where we bonded over plants and garden design. When he visited the Delaware Valley region for gardens and nurseries, we had a fun time...
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A Student Garden in Three Steppes
Martha Keen is currently a 1st year student in Longwood Gardens’ Professional Gardener Program; one of her program’s requirements to design and plant a plot adjacent to their student housing. In the...
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