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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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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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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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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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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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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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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This evolution of a garden bed shows you how a front entrance garden bed has grown and changed from planting to the present day. A living work in progress! This is my third weekend participating in Six on Saturday, a fabulous idea run by The Propagator garden blog, as a way for gardeners the world over...

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Our simple side yard makeover is easy to maintain and looks sharp year-round. We went from a mushy, unused side yard to a grass-free landscaped beauty! There are many before-and-after images for you to see! Back in 2007, when we bought our home, there wasn’t any landscaping to speak of, however there was a lot of...

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