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Best Way to Paint Your Garden with Plants

Gardens offer a broad canvas for gardeners to paint, and within most of them there are opportunities to introduce new features and to group plants in exciting and colorful combinations. The flower arranger’s garden offers a wide range of flowers that are suitable for cutting to display in vases indoors.… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Paint a Winter Garden with Plants

Winter-flowering plants are invaluable for brightening the so-called dull season of the year. Winter-brightening shrubs and trees with colorful barks and stems look superb on their own, but when other plants are positioned around them, their season is extended and the display improved. Here are a few combinations of plants… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Consider the Height of Garden Plants

You don’t want to be conscious of how the plants are arranged; all you want is the impression of a community of flowers, beautifully and naturally grouped. Of course you’re going to be guided to some extent by relative height; you wouldn’t plant a solid clump of three-foot phlox in… Continue Reading…