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Let’s Take it Outside: Take Your Houseplant on a Walk Day is June 27 Imagine a day when housebound pothos and peace lilies uproot themselves from their pots, break loose from their domestic confines, and march down the street en...
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Right as Rain: Successful Rain Gardens If you’ve ever trudged through a wet spot in your garden, your boots making that unmistakable sucking sound with every step, or watched the rain cascade off your roof or down your driveway then...
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Nip Problems in the Bud with Heat-Tolerant Plants ‘It’s a scorcher out there’ is something we’re hearing nearly every day this summer, and few parts of the country have been immune to record-breaking heat. Without the right precautions, plants and...
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Today’s Wellness Garden Trend Has Deep Roots Home and garden gurus are calling 2024 “the year of the wellness garden,” promoting backyard plots of land as places to relax, fill your senses, soak in the joy of beautiful surroundings, connect...
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The Plant Name Game. Hooker’s Lips and Other Curiosities Thanks to the work of Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus, the question of what's in a name has more than one answer. In the 1700s, Linnaeus came up with the naming convention...
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Try Cocktail Gardening for a New Twist on Favorite Drinks On a hot summer’s day, there are few things as refreshing as a cold cocktail or mocktail. Just thinking about a strawberry mojito with basil or a cucumber mint julep...
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For Better Gardens and Happier Gardening, Beware of These 8 Social Media Trends Social media is a highlight reel: The things you see don’t always represent the entire picture or, in some cases, reality at all. So while you can...
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From Asters to Water Lilies: Birth Flowers Month-by-Month Whether you read your horoscope regularly or wouldn’t know your “sign” from a traffic signal, even if you believe your birthstone is a garden rock, it’s fun to learn about the flowers...
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Not Your Grandma’s Garden: Millennials Are the New ‘Plant Parents’ Millennials may be best known as tech savvy “digital natives” who love a good matcha latte with almond milk, but as with any generation, there’s more to them than that....
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Social media is a highlight reel: The things you see don’t always represent the entire picture or, in some cases, reality at all. So while you can get good, thorough online gardening advice from sources who actually specialize in it,...
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