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October 7, 2026

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Heirloom Collard Greens: Connecting with My Roots

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Cool Crops for Fall

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Summer Bulbs

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Dreaming of spring color

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Summer Comes to the Dwarf Conifer Garden

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Fall Container Change-outs

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Bonsai in the Semitropical Greenhouse

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Food for Thought: Celebrating the Vegetables of the 1890s

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Meet Naranjilla

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Autumn Blooms in the Bulb Garden

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Veterans Grow at the 51³Ô¹Ï

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Mulch Ado about Everything

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The Plant Doctor Is in the House

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September Shorties

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Workin’ the Berm: Aster Management

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³Û´Ç³Ü’v±ð Never Seen a Baptisia Like This Before

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How a Heat Wave Can Affect Fall Color

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Fall color means blue squash and pink pumpkins, too

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5 Perennials for Spectacular Fall Color

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Desert Island Herbs

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Sex, scandals, and, oh, that wisteria

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A Beatrix Potter-ish Spring Garden

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Meet Some of Spring’s Superstars

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Roses That Say Love

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Roses Are Red

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The Love Lives of Orchids

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Test your orchid IQ—how do orchid roots work?

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‘Ugliest’ orchid and other wild orchid stories

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Unexpected Signs of Spring

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Karl Foerster: the Plant, the Myth, the Legend

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Pruning the Linden Allée

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Spring Weather and Your Garden

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A Scientist with Orchid Fever

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A Winter Tour of The Greenhouses

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Time to Uncover the Rose Garden

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Reshape the way you think about winter

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Gardening in Winter: Dos and Don’ts

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Conifers to Light Up the Winter Garden

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The Joy of Winter Green

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Christmas Tree Taxonomy

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Finding Awe

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The Gift of Bonsai

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The Gift of Bonsai

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Bulbs for the Holidays

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Bulbs for Fall and Winter Interest

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Overwintering Your Bonsai

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Get a Head Start: Preparing Against Winter Damage

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Keep holiday plants beautiful beyond the season

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A Paranormal Perennial

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Monsters, Magic, and Monkshood

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Overcoming Winter Scorch

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Garden trials biochar to improve challenging soils

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Moving Houseplants Back Indoors

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Keep Calm and Get Your Lavender On

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Make the Farm-to-Table Connection

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Fireworks for the Grill: Herb Brushes

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Fruit Pursuit Game

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Discovery of the Red Fernleaf Peony

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