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Garden Writer, Linda Vater

Linda Vater

Linda Vater is a self-taught garden designer, writer, and media producer (tv, magazines, and the web) who obsesses over garden-inspired living. She is the author of the Elegant and Edible Garden and Linda Vater’s 5-Year Garden Journal. After gardening at the same historical home for over 30 years, Linda has moved into another historical home and is starting a brand new garden. Follow her journey on Instagram, YouTube, QVC, and on the web at www.lindavater.com
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Articles by Linda Vater

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Linda Vater in green shirt, jeans and knee high garden boots sits on porch bench
Plan Your Garden

Video: ScentAmazing™ Gardenia – Beauty and Fragrance

Create a beautiful hanging basket full of fragrance with ScentAmazing Gardenia.
By: Linda Vater
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October 24, 2023
Linda Vater in a blue print dress sits on a brick pathway among Southern Living plants
Plan Your Garden

Video: Jubilation™ Gardenia with Linda Vater

Add fragrance as well as beauty to your landscape. Fall in love again and again with Jubilation™ Gardenia.
By: Linda Vater
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October 24, 2023
A girl hands her grandmother a gardenia stem while the grandmother plants a container of ScentAmazing Gardenia & Heucherella
Plan Your Garden

Video: ScentAmazing™ Gardenia

Classic green and white never fails in garden design.
By: Linda Vater
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October 24, 2023
displays dark purple mounding foliage year-round and bursts with lovely dark pink string clusters each sprin
Plan Your Garden

Video: Purple Daydream® Dwarf Loropetalum with Linda Vater

‘Drop in’ color for your garden beds while waiting for summer color to arrive.
By: Linda Vater
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October 24, 2023
Yewtopia Plum Yew in flower bed lined with red rocks and white flowers
Plan Your Garden

Video: Plant a Yewtopia® Plum Yew

Linda Vater on why Yewtopia Plum Yews are an ideal evergreen landscape solution.
By: Linda Vater
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October 24, 2023
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Plan Your Garden

Video: October Magic Camellias with Linda Vater

You all know we are crazy about Camellias, and so is our friend Linda Vater.
By: Linda Vater
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October 24, 2023
Lomandra Platinum Beauty
Plan Your Garden

Video: Make a Statement with Platinum Beauty™ Lomandra

Make a bold statement and add movement and grace to garden spaces.
By: Linda Vater
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October 24, 2023
A Jubilation Gardenia shrub in full bloom bordered by chartreuse green Everillo EverColor Carex, an ornamental grass
Plan Your Garden

Video: Green and White Garden Magic with Jubilation™ Gardenia

Create garden magic with the glorious Jubilation Gardenia as the centerpiece
By: Linda Vater
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October 24, 2023
Close-up on informal double red blooms with yellow centers of Bella Rouge Camellia
Plan Your Garden

Video: Camellia Collection

Meet our collection of camellias. They’ll light up your fall & winter gardens.
By: Linda Vater
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October 24, 2023
Linda Vater in a red blouse posing with newly arrived Southern Living plants before she plants them in her garden
Plan Your Garden

Video: ‘Orange Rocket’ Barberry with Linda Vater

Fabulous color spring through fall and tough enough to take the summer heat.
By: Linda Vater
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October 24, 2023
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Plan Your Garden

Video: ‘Lemon-Lime’ Nandina with Linda Vater

Solve many garden challenges with ‘Lemon Lime’ Nandina.
By: Linda Vater
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October 24, 2023
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