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Gardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: Picea Glauca
Its sculptural form and evergreen foliage provide year-round beauty and wildlife shelter. Its cones offer important winter songbird food
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Gardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: Dasylirion Quadrangulatum
The drought-tolerant Mexican grass tree adds dramatic interest to the Southwest garden
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Gardening GuidesHummingbird or Moth? See Why You Want Clearwings Around
These fascinating moths may be helpful pollinators for your garden. Here’s how to coax them your way
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Gardening for BirdsBackyard Birds: Those Nutty Nuthatches
The North American songbirds, which often perch upside down, make themselves known in the winter landscape
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Gardening Guides3 Easy Ways You Can Garden for Nature
Your choice of plants can help wildlife while cleaning the air and water
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Gardening GuidesWhat Are Your Spring Gardening Plans?
Tearing out the lawn? Planting edibles? Starting from scratch? Tell us what you plan to change in your garden this year
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Gardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: Pseudognaphalium Obtusifolium, or Rabbit Tobacco
This late-blooming native annual, also known as sweet everlasting, adds spontaneity to landscapes in the eastern United States
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Gardening GuidesYour Garden Is Stirring — Here’s What to Do in February
February is a good time to start seeds, shape up shrubs and watch for the earliest blooms. Here’s what to do in your part of the U.S. now
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TreesHow to Buy Healthy Trees and Shrubs
A healthy young plant with a strong form is more likely to do well in your yard. Here’s what to look for at the nursery
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Gardening Guides10 Cold- and Heat-Tolerant Perennials and Shrubs for the Arid West
These flowering native plants shrug off the cold of winter and heat of summer while adding beauty to the drought-tolerant landscape
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Gardening GuidesHow to Stop Worrying and Start Loving Clay Soil
Clay has many more benefits than you might imagine
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