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Marty’s 2025 Garden Highlights, Part 3

Happy Friday, GPODers! Winter isn’t over yet, but we are inching closer and closer to...

Bubble Drawings for Landscape Design: From Ideas to Layout

Designing your yard can feel overwhelming. Before you worry about exact measurements, materials, or plant choices, the very first step is creating a landscape...

Wired vs Wireless Sensors 101: The Ultimate Guide

Choosing the right sensor for your grow is vital! Are you building the gold-standard reliable system, or a flexible, data-rich array? At my automation company,...

How One Gardener Designed Her Home for Sharing

What does it look like to design a home and garden around community? In this Q&A, we explore how one East Van gardener has...

Episode 190: Deer-Resistant Plants – Fine Gardening

Meet the plants that have proved to be deer-resistant in our gardens A public service announcement prior...

Five years of Hebden Bridge | Jack Wallington

“Time flies when you’re having fun,” Chris said when I asked him what I should write for this post, along with it’s been “five...

Ask the Expert: Tom Eaglestone on How to Reuse Preexisting Materials in Your Garden

We’ve been noticing lately that a talent for stonework is more than an extra feather in the cap for garden designers. Wilder planting can...

Design, Care and Planning Tips for the Cold Season

Winter may feel like a quiet time in the garden, but it is filled with opportunity. Flowers and plants can still thrive when you...

Finding Garden Advice in the Offseason

During the peak season, gardening advice inevitably comes at you from everywhere and everyone—whether...

Terraced backyard for outdoor living, plus meadowy entry garden

February 17, 2026 Last fall, landscape architect Curt Arnette and I visited one of his Site Design gardens in central Austin. Right away, I was...

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12+ Best Crops for Raised Beds

Raised beds offer a unique set of advantages and disadvantages. They drain well, warm quickly, and can provide soft, loose soil. They may also...

How to Maintain Your Chemical-Free Yard

4. ‘No Mow May’ isn’t the best idea. While the rhyming moniker is well-intentioned (it’s meant to let lawns grow long and go...
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