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White caladium in a blue pot in a garden

Garden

3 Summer Annuals for Container Gardens

Part of the joy of gardening in summer is potting up planters of colorful annuals for my big front porch. Over the
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Container garden with snapdragons, carex, flowering kale, parsley and chard

Garden

Cool Weather Container Gardens

When you learn how to make cool weather container gardens, you can mix and match plants from fall to spring and, with
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Flower pot with sweet potato vine, caladiums, asparagus fern and spikes

Garden

Late Summer Flower Pots Update

It's early October in my zone 7b, Atlanta-area garden and as I walk about the property in this exquisite (if lamentably
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Summer annual flowers in a black pot

DIY Garden

Summer Flower Pots

My parents were both Depression babies. I think that's the reason why, whenever I was tempted to purchase something new,
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