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Fall Foliage Colors: Maine
The Pine Tree State in "Leaf Peeping" season combines blazing forests, rolling hills, ocean vistas, harvest season and white villages outlined in red, orange and yellow.
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Fall Foliage Colors: New Hampshire
In "Leaf Peeping Season" from the seacoast to the mountains, NH's country roads, white church steeples and stonewalls are framed by red, orange and yellow maples.
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Fall Foliage Colors: Vermont
"Leaf Peeping" season in Vermont's Green Mountains combines brilliant maple forests with rolling hills and white villages outlined in red, orange and yellow.
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Foliage all around me: And Not a Drop of Green
You can have color all year even when nothing is in bloom.
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Pleasing Plantings - One Leaf at A Time.
A garden that looks good all year starts with the foliage color, texture and shape. Get that right and you'll always have an interesting garden - even when nothing is in flower.
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So, you're starting a new garden?
A few basic principles to get you started right.
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The Science of Fall Foliage Color
Discover why foliage appears to turn colors in the fall, using science to explain the drastic change from green to brilliant red, orange, yellow and gold leaves.
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Color in the Garden
Everyone has different views and desires when it comes to color. Many landscape designers and garden architects prefer foliage color over flowering garden plants.
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Foliage for the White Garden
To enhance the overall effect of your white garden or moon garden design, plant gray, blue, silver or white variegated foliage plants along with your white flowers.
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What Still Looks Good?
Inspiration for the fall garden! Enjoy some unusual hardy perennials, grasses, trees and shrubs with wonderful fall interest as guest columnist and garden designer Abby Millager describes her zone 5 Massachusetts garden in mid October.
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Shrubs for Bright Fall Foliage
Red, yellow, orange and burgundy-purple colors make the autumn landscape shine with brilliant colors. These shrubs add fall foliage accents to the garden.
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Edible Vegetables with Red and Maroon Foliage
Gardeners do not have to sacrifice colorful landscapes to stretch their family's food budget. These edible vegetable plants all have brightly colored foliage.
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Fall Flowers for Autumn Color
With the cooling days of autumn, many summer perennials begin to cease their blooms. Gardeners can keep the color going for the autumn months by including these plants.
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Late Color
As November wends it's way into December, bleak becomes the adjective to describe the landscape for gardeners in the northern hemisphere. This week, I have some eyecandy to stave off color starvation for winter frustrated gardeners. <b>Warning - this one is photo intensive</b> and may be slow to load for you.
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Late Color - Part 2
Last week, I shared some late color from my USDA zone 7 garden in the green and yellow range; this week, we'll blaze out! Get out your sunglasses and enjoy the color. <b>Warning! Lots of images - may load slowly for you.</b>
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Late Color - Part 3
Subtle variations in tone and tint add a richness to the sepia of our November gardens and conclude this series on Late Color.
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Ten Fall Garden Chores
Ten seasonal chores for the fall garden. A great fall send-off means a jump on spring -- and maybe an eye-opener or two. Best of all, find out how to get super FREE STUFF!
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Foliage: The Living Palette - Part 3
As we dream of our gardens and what we want to do, we need to keep our aesthetic tools in mind. Foliage is one of the primary tools available to those of us who garden in shade. With it, we can weave a living tapestry. I've finally gotten a scanner and I've been playing with it. One of these days, I'll figure out the best way to use it. In the meantime, please bear with me if my page is slow to load.
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Designing and Planting Container Gardens for Sun and Shade
Container gardening is the solution to gardeners lacking space or time to create a beatiful garden. Discover how to put together a bountiful container garden and get ideas for container gardens made for sun and shade.
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Fall Classics
Fall Classics
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Patriotic Themed Garden Plants
What better place to celebrate Independence Day than in a garden full of plants that celebrate that spirit of "freedom and liberty for all".
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Plants for Dramatic Containers
Putting together a seasonal container planting full of color and excitement means combining plants with contrasting growth habit, color and foliage texture.
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Foliage: The Living Palette - Part 4
Today, I'd like to explore other ways to use foliage contrasts and echoes in the garden.
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Best Plants for Fall Gardens and Containers
Crisp air and bold leaf color beg for rich, beautiful fall flowers. But how do you choose, whether for fabulous containers or great ground plantings?
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Biennial Plants with Yellow Flowers
Biennial plants are usually hardy, easy to grow plants that self-sow in the garden, so these yellow blooming plants will make great additions to a yellow themed garden.
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Create a Garden Wall
Today's article tells how a few plants will make a living wall out of a dry stack rock wall.
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Fair Heather Friends
Fair Heather Friends
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Minnesota's North Shore State Parks
When planning that Fall Colors trip along Lake Superior's North Shore in Minnesota, consider getting outdoors (and saving some money) by staying at one of 8 state parks.
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Organic Garden Seeds of Autumn
Organic gardening opens the door for seeds to germinate wherever they fall. No herbicides will interfere. Nature provides rich rewards for the receptive garden.
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Plant Profile Barberry (Berberis)
Barberry shrubs are widely used in garden landscapes because of the attractive foliage, fragrant flowers and deer resistant thorny stems. See how to care for the shrubs.
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Pulmonaria--An Episode on "ER?"
This herbal perennial has made a real comeback!
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Rare Conifer Evergreen Trees
Plant hunters, propagators,and geneticists have developed rare and unusual conifers. Because of this there is a perfect plant for any site.
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Simple Convertible Container Gardens
Looking for an easy container garden but wanting to get more use out of it than just one season? Why not try a convertible container?
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That was Quick!
Some plants that bloom after the daffodils.
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A New CD-Rom on Grasses and Their Relatives
Many consider grasses, sedges, and their relatives to be the backbone of a perennial garden. The CD reviewed in this article features these plant species.
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Autumn Plants
Fall means a second gardening seasons for California gardeners. Chrysanthemums, salvias, scabiosa, daisies, coleus and more.
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Blue Flowered Ground Covers
Blue flowered ground covers offer another opportunity to add the color blue to your yard and flower garden.
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Blue Flowers for Fall Color
Grow blue flowers that bloom in the fall season whether you are planting an all blue theme garden or just enjoy a few blue flowers in your flower garden.
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Buy A Rose You Love
How do you make your final selection when it comes to buying a rose bush? Here’s when NOT to go by the book! Hint: Have you experienced it in bloom up close in real life?
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Caladium Bulb Plant Profile
Caladiums are one of the most popular foliage plants for adding color to shade gardens. See how to grow favorite caladium bulbs in your garden.
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Fall Foliage Across America
Fall is a great time of the year for families to experience some spectacular aspects of nature at its finest.
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Fall Foliage is Eye Candy
Help yourself to some eye candy! Fall foliage is a gift of nature, one we treasure each autumn. Here's where to find it in person or by web cam and how to bring some home to enjoy and grow in the landscape plan for your own yard or garden design.
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Foliage Road Trip Getaways in New Hampshire
Each autumn NH maple trees turn into a kaleidoscope of reds, oranges and brilliant yellows for travelers to enjoy as they buy fresh farm produce at roadside stands.
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Grandfather Mountain Sold to State
The sale of historic Grandfather Mountain to the state of North Carolina ensures preservation of the area for future generations, per the wishes of the previous owner.
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Installing a Japanese Garden
It's planting day for the Japanese gardens and the temperature is soaring. Will the inspiration garden be inspiring?
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Japanese Garden Evergreen Plants
These lovely evergreen conifers make great additions to a Japanese reflection garden because of the interesting form and year round color they provide the landscape.
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Late Winter Flowers
Persian Parrotia has a lot to offer the garden. Unfortunately, late winter flowers are not on the top of the list. Witchhazel is the choice for winter flowers.
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Low-Maintenance Plants for DIY Landscape Gardens
Low-maintenance plants are top choices for DIY landscape gardeners in designing a feasible landscape. They are no-nonsense picks for memorial and meditation gardens.
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Roses for the White Garden
There are so many white roses just perfect for the white garden or moon garden. How can you pick just one?! Here are a few suggested white roses for your flower garden.
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Summer Flowering Bulbs
Included in the wide array of summer flowering bulbs, you will find cut flowers, fragrant blooms and colorful foliage plants.
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