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In The Garden with Danielle Brown | April 2025 Edition
In The Garden with Danielle Brown | April 2025 Edition Chapter 4: Tackling Weeds and Embracing Spring’s Bloom Spring has sprung! It’s not too hard to get excited about gardening this month. Every plant seems to be putting on a show. The evergreens that seemed so colorful and full of life during the winter now suddenly pale in comparison to fresh green leaves and...
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In The Garden with Danielle Brown March 2025 Edition
In The Garden with Danielle Brown | March 2025 Edition Chapter 3: Mulch Your Way to a Healthier Garden This month is special. It is still winter, and, in some years, we have gotten some of our worst winter storms this month, but you get hints of spring. Bright highlights of forsythia stand out against the drab landscape, abundant, tiny flowers create a red glow around...
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In The Garden with Danielle Brown February 2025 Edition
In The Garden with Danielle Brown | February 2025 Edition Chapter 2: Trim for Triumph! February can be a time of cold, dark days. It is the shortest month of the year, and I’ve often thought it was because we couldn’t take 31 days of this month! There may be snow on the ground which could prevent putting down mulch, but the deciduous trees and shrubs are bare,...
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In The Garden with Danielle Brown January 2025 Edition
In The Garden with Danielle Brown | January 2025 Edition Chapter 1: Preparing for Growth The holidays are over, the decorations have been taken down, and you are now settling into the dark days of winter. For some, this is a restful and welcome time. For others, the post-holiday let-down and shortened daylight can be a bit of a bummer. I like to think of this time as a...
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Great Dixter
This is the seventh installment of multiple reports from the week-long educational trip some of our team members took in the summer of 2022. Great Dixter - A Garden Out of Place Planning and research for our trip to England had begun years ago. Google searches for the “best gardens in London” or “Gardens of the Cotswolds” were a regular Sunday morning activity...
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Sissinghurst
This is the sixth installment of multiple reports from the week-long educational trip some of our team members took in the summer of 2022. As I cross the entry courtyard of Sissinghurst Castle Garden, its famous red brick tower looms over the grounds like a watchful warden. My nose catches the scent of roses – the famous collection here is still in bloom despite the...