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My Favorite Garden Lilies
Pink martagon lilies are a garden delight. In honor of the National Garden Bureau’s Year of the Lily, I decided to write about my garden favorites. Big, bold, and gorgeous, garden lilies can make a...
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Spring Garden Tasks for a Happy Garden
Spring is here! Officially it was March 20th, but I knew it was spring as soon as I saw the daffodils emerge. The hellebores have been glorious this year, but as their late-winter flowers slowly fade,...
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Celebrating Colorful Coleus
Coleus ‘Henna’ is a real color-filled beauty with shades of green, orange, and purple. Long ago, Coleus had been considered a house plant. I can remember, my grandmother always had coleus growing in...
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The Best Reblooming Clematis
Clematis alpina ‘Pamela Jackman’ first blooms in April and again later in the season. When visiting older established gardens, if there is a border garden, it will probably contain at least one of...
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Glorious Hydrangeas for the Summer Garden
Blue lacecap hydrangeas are garden favorites, especially ‘Nachtigall’ (singer of the night). (Image by Mike Darcy) The name Hydrangea denotes water and comes from the Greek words, hydor (water) and...
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Favorite Summer Garden Herbs
The flowers of English lavender and sage complement each other in the early summer garden. Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme is one of the most popular songs by Simon and Garfunkel, and both the herbs...
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Big Bold Hostas
Not all hostas are going to be ‘big and bold’ like ‘Empress Wu’, (photo above), but being one of the largest growing hostas, it certainly does make a statement! At the opposite end of the spectrum...
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Starting Tomato Seeds & Tuberous Begonias
Tomato seeds! Where to start? So many to choose from! Looking over a recent garden catalog arrival, there were over 100 different named cultivars of tomato seed offered for sale. It is hard to think...
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Earth Day 2025, Our Power, Our Planet
The month of April has a lot going for it, especially for gardeners! Even though the official date for the beginning of the spring season is in March. April is often the month that gardeners get into...
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Make Your Own Hanging Basket by Mike Darcy
If you have been to a garden center recently, you probably have seen a variety of various hanging baskets, all of which were very colorful. The temptation is strong to buy a ready-made one and I do...
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