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Gardening Guides8 New Ways to Garden This Year
A successful garden means knowing the plants, the wildlife and yourself
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Gardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: Woodland Garden Beauty Polystichum Acrostichoides
Eastern U.S. native Christmas fern is a living decoration in the winter woodland garden
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Native PlantsGreat Design Plant: Hydrophyllum Virginianum
This reliable, shade-tolerant native plant provides spotted foliage and clusters of pink flowers in eastern U.S. woodland and shade gardens
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Gardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: Lobelia Siphilitica Keeps Its Cool
Great blue lobelia, a flowering native that prefers moist soil, adds a calming blue hue to the late-summer garden
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Gardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: Ratibida Pinnata Flutters in the Breeze
This bright coneflower brings splashes of yellow to eastern U.S. prairie gardens and perennial borders
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Gardening GuidesWhat’s in a Name? See 6 Wildflowers That Aren’t ‘Weeds’ at All
Dispel the stereotypes of weeds and try these wildlife-supporting native wildflowers in your garden
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Gardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: Annual Phacelias
Coveted by California beekeepers and wildlife gardeners, phacelias are worth planting now for their prolific blue to purple spring blooms
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Gardening Guides10 Top Native Plants for the U.S. Southeast
For a low-maintenance and wildlife-friendly landscape, use Southern natives that withstand heat and humidity
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Gardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: Staphylea Trifolia Shines in the Shade
Plant American bladdernut for 3 seasons of interest: spring flowers and striped brown branches and bladder-like seedpods in fall and winter
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Gardening GuidesCelebrate Eastern Oaks for Wildlife, Longevity and Seasonal Interest
There might not be a more important tree to have in your eastern U.S. landscape — if you can fit one in
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Gardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: Eutrochium Maculatum
Sculptural, slightly tropical looking and a boon to wildlife, Spotted Joe Pye Weed is a gotta-have plant in many parts of the U.S.
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