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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

Facts and Fables about growing Peony

Botanical Name: Paeonia spp. Flower colours: Pink, purple, red, white and yellow Peony are perennial herbaceous plants that come back year after year with large, fragrant blooms. They are long-lived with some lasting up to 100-years-old. They require little to […]

Landscape construction is like a train!

I’ve always thought of landscape construction much like a really big, long train. There’s a heavy locomotive (or maybe two) leading the way with box cars following along behind, all trudging its way down the tracks. And, sometimes there’s a […]

Life Lessons from the Garden

Digging 50 years of Gardening Plant a seed and it will grow! It always amazes me that a seed can grow in the most adverse conditions. The dandelion grows in the crack of an asphalt driveway. The acorn seedling pushes […]

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