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Lexi Dearborn

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Welcome to the Gabby Gardener. I’m Lexi Dearborn.
I’m excited to share with you posts on gardening, horticulture, planning, design, lighting and so much more.
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Professional Landscape Designer | Certified Horticulturalist

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Rain Gardens! Controlling Water.

A rain garden is an engineered landscape feature that utilizes rain, stormwater, and melting snow by collecting and temporarily storing runoff from eavestroughs, lawns, driveways, and walkways. Conditions for a Rain Garden. This garden’s design and plant selection are essential […]

Colour throughout the Seasons. Great Combinations!

Perennial combinations that really work! Do you want gardens that bloom all season?  Planning is the key to creating a perennial garden with colour from spring to frost.  Here are a few of my favourite perennial combinations! MAY AND JUNE […]

Annual Containers for Instead Colour!

After a long, cold winter, I need colour! Annual containers are one of the fastest and easiest ways to add colour to any landscape.  Instead Colour!  A few containers filled with nonstop blooming annuals surrounding a tropical focal point can do the […]