Tag: Flower gardens
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Make Gardens You Love & Give You Joy
The Best Garden Design uses Plants you Love Flower gardens give me joy. Flowering plants in large masses and drifts with the occasional individual to keep it interesting. Pairing plant shapes and colors with others that complement and contrast creates visual excitement and abundance. Indeed, the kind of abundance that means you can pick selected…
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Gardening at Dawn on a Summer-Like Day
I love gardening at dawn on a summer morning. Cool enough to pull weeds, prune branches, deadhead, plant, lay mulch as I did this last weekend-of-May Sunday. Yet it’s warm enough for shorts and a tshirt. It’s a time of birdsong and quiet in the neighborhood. No noisy lawn mowers, leaf blowers, or power songs.…
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Stunning Perennial and Shrub Combinations
Often gardeners grow really beautiful plants well, but they don’t look like much. That’s because they’re just randomly plunked in the garden or at look that way. Gardeners don’t think about creating stunning perennial and shrub combinations. Usually it’s because the flowering perennial or shrub lacks a contrasting background that also may enhance the color.…