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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 Peonies 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 […]

Landscape construction is like a train!

I’ve always thought of landscape construction as a big, long train. A heavy locomotive or two leads the way, with boxcars following behind, all trudging down the tracks. And sometimes, there’s a locomotive at the back pushing things along. This […]

Life Lessons from the Garden

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

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