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How to Plan a New Garden

Laura — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 00:50:55 +0000

How to plan a new garden with detailed advice about effort, sun, soil, deer, rabbits, trees, shrubs, perennials, bulbs and annuals. With careful planning, you can have a new garden that will thrive! Planning a new garden — especially when you’re starting from scratch or are new to gardening — can seem overwhelming! But the...

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Pinky Winky Hydrangea Garden

Laura — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 17:24:38 +0000

Enjoy this detailed Summer garden tour of my Pinky Winky Hydrangea Garden. In addition to the Pinky Winky Hydrangeas, this garden features a Muskogee Crepe Myrtle, Fothergilla, evergreens and flowering perennials like Geranium Rozanne, Geum and Roses. Includes video! Pinky Winky Hydrangeas are probably one of my favorite flowering shrubs, and right now they are...

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Snowy Winter Garden Tour: Winter Color and Texture

Laura — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 23:02:55 +0000

Enjoy this snowy Winter garden tour of our front yard garden beds, filled with evergreens, grasses and gorgeous Winter-blooming heath. There’s also plenty of fox and rabbit tracks! We finally had snow here in southern New Jersey! It wasn’t much, but the snow was enough for me to enjoy! I filmed a YouTube video showing...

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Early December Garden: blooms, berries and red leaves

Laura — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 18:09:42 +0000

Enjoy my early December garden with Winter heath and heather blooming, vibrant pink-orange berries on euonymus shrubs and red leaves on Little Henry Virginia Sweetspire. Includes video! I shared this photo of me (below) recently on social media, and said, “Why am I smiling?” before continuing to explain why. I’m smiling because the Kramer’s Red...

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Foundation garden beds in Fall: a November garden tour

Laura — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 00:10:49 +0000

Enjoy this garden tour of our front yard foundation garden beds in Fall. These easy-care foundation plantings provide beautiful color year round. Includes video! My final Fall Garden Tour for this season? The foundation garden beds in our grass-free front yard. Below are several images of the garden beds, and at the end of this...

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Fall Garden Tour with red and yellow twig dogwoods

Laura — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 15:49:17 +0000

Enjoy this November garden tour of our front yard “other” side bed featuring red twig and yellow twig dogwoods, a river birch tree, Knock Out roses, grasses, evergreens and perennials. Includes video! The other side bed in our front yard — for lack of a better name — is an easy bed to maintain, mainly...

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Fall Garden Tour featuring color and texture!

Laura — Sat, 31 Oct 2020 19:41:51 +0000

Enjoy this Fall garden tour of one of the side beds in our front yard! In mid-Fall, this bed features color and texture from drying Little Lime Hydrangeas, Piglet grasses, perennials plus several evergreens in varying shades of green. This time of year, when many perennials have finished up for the season, there is still...

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Early Fall Garden Tour: Front Yard, Center Bed

Laura — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 17:27:23 +0000

Enjoy this early Fall garden tour of our main center bed in our grass-free front yard. It’s a large half circle filled with annuals, perennials, shrubs and a crepe myrtle tree as the centerpiece. This short video walks you around our main garden bed in our front yard. This is filmed in early October, here...

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Backyard garden (Six on Saturday)

Laura — Sat, 08 Feb 2020 05:30:00 +0000

Some thoughts on my backyard garden bed in Winter for this week’s Six on Saturday gardening post. Six things going on in my own little gardening world. As I write this, our foggy morning has quickly turned into a severe rainstorm. We’ve had rain on and off for three days now, and our garden beds...

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Backyard Garden in Early February

Laura — Sat, 09 Feb 2019 05:05:27 +0000

This week’s Six on Saturday garden photos are a glimpse into my backyard garden in early February. There’s some nice evergreen shrub colors, but there’s also some work I need to do. Just keeping it real! Six on Saturday To follow along with all of today’s Six on Saturday gardener posts, visit The Propagator here....

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