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Select native plants to encourage songbirds and caterpillars to your gardens.

Selecting native plants for home gardens has become popular over the last decade. It’s a shift in the way we think about residential gardens. Most (not all) gardeners believe ‘traditional English garden plants’ are the only flowers for their home […]

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My Top 10 ‘Wild and Crazy’ Client Requests!

As I start into my 23rd year as a landscape designer, I got to thinking about all the wild and crazy ideas clients have requested as part of their landscape projects.

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Watering Flowering Perennials | My Best Advice

What Are Flowering Perennials? A flowering perennial, a true marvel of nature, is an outdoor plant that lives for more than two years. Perennials emerge in the spring after the snow has melted and temperatures have warmed; they flower at […]

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