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Gardening Guides6 Branches and Berries to Spruce Up Holiday Decor
Bring garden cuttings in from the cold to warm up seasonal arrangements and decorate your home for the holidays
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FlowersGreat Design Plant: Carol Mackie Daphne
With a sweet, strong fragrance and white flowers that fade to pink, this garden standout has feminine wiles to match its name
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Winter GardeningFire and Ice: 8 Plants That Blaze Once Frost Hits
Not everything in the garden sleeps in the cold — these plants rise and shine in fall and winter, bringing bright color to beat the blahs
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FoliageGreat Design Plant: Foxtail Fern
Not actually a fern, this vivid member of the asparagus family has a distinctive appearance to awaken a garden year-round
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Blue and Gray FoliageGreat Design Plant: Blue Oat Grass
For soothing coolness in a garden or container, this evergreen grass is the low-maintenance and hardy choice to know
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Red FoliageGreat Design Plant: 'Roger's Red' California Wild Grape
Lush, vivid and a considerate provider of snacks for wildlife, this deciduous vine is especially spectacular in a fall garden
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Gardening GuidesHow to Use Pachysandra Responsibly in the Landscape
It's tops at covering lots of ground quickly, but be sure this low evergreen plant doesn't spread where it shouldn't
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Gardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: Periwinkle
This lush and highly tolerant ground cover grows quickly and offers pretty blue blooms in spring
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Blue and Gray FoliageGreat Design Plant: Cushion Bush
Fuzzy and otherworldly, this white mounding shrub lights up gardens through all four seasons
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Red FoliageGreat Design Plant: 'Little Henry' Sweetspire
Small in stature but big on impact, this fuss-free shrub promises spring flowers, fiery fall color and good manners in the garden
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Purple FoliageGreat Design Plant: Autumn Snakeroot
Venture fearlessly into the dark with this striking almost-black plant that brings a dramatic mood to the garden
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