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Can the UK re-introduce pet licences?

There’s something about the partnership with pets that I love, when the animal is put first, as they should be, it can be wonderful...

Hardscaping vs. Softscaping: Achieve Batter Garden Harmony

Welcome to the second edition of our landscaping series! Now that we’ve covered the basics of landscaping in the introduction, it’s time to dig...

Ringing In The 2025 Winter Season

It is probably close to 15 years ago that Rob wrapped a vintage steel tractor tire hoop with a string of incandescent holiday lights,...

Up For Grabs: Garden, Culinary, and Decorative Antiques From Patricia Wells’s Provence Farmhouse

Known for her popular French cooking school, At Home in Franceand revered for decades as one of the most influential personalities in the culinary...

Big Key Role Players in Landscaping You Really Need to Hire

Creating a stunning landscape involves more than just picking out plants and arranging them around your yard. It’s a collaborative effort requiring the expertise...

Taking the Next Step | Deborah Silver & Co.

It was not my intent to give the impression that the time it took to write my previous post was in any way comparable...

Cascades of Orange Nasturtium Vines Celebrate Spring in Boston

March 29, 2024 by Robin Plaskoff Horton Photo: Jenny Pore. Courtesy of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston. For about three weeks every year, cascades...

Red, Wild, and Revolutionary: Why I’m Obsessed with Bee Balm (Monarda didyma)

Every garden needs a showstopper—something with real presence, something that hums with life and story. For me, that’s Monarda didymabetter known as red bee...

Chelsea Show Gardens 2023 – Janna Schreier Garden Design

It’s Chelsea time. Hip hip hooray! The aim of the show is to ‘inspire more people to grow’. I’m not sure I can ever become...

You Don’t Need to Go to Holland to Tiptoe Through the Tulips

Diana Robinson, Flickr, Licensed by Creative Commons. Contemplating tulips conjures images of Dutch windmills, wooden shoes, and blue Delft pottery, which makes sense because the...

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GPOD on the Road: Late Winter at Abkhazi Garden

Happy Friday GPODers! We are finished with Cherry Ong’s incredible late winter tour of The...

Sumptuous Season Extenders – your flower relay team – Successful Garden & Lifestyle Design

For flower lovers, especially in a small garden, it can be difficult to achieve a continual stream of them throughout...

Managing Water and Nutrients Differently

Sharing is caring! If you manage container plants the same way you manage raised beds or in-ground soil, you’ll always be fighting problems you can’t...