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Plan Your Garden

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Plan Your Garden

Plant Pollinator Plants for “Garden for Wildlife Month”

Get these pollinator-friendly blooms on the menu in your garden.
By: Southern Living Plants Staff
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August 28, 2024
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Plan Your Garden

Pet Friendly Southern Living Plants

Designing a garden that is both beautiful & pet-friendly takes special planning. Try these tough, pet-friendly shrubs.
By: Kim Toscano
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October 24, 2023
Tall metal cone-shaped container planted with Soft Caress Mahonia, Purple Pixie and Camellia
Plan Your Garden

Container Plantings for The Porch and The Patio

Two distinct spaces with vastly different plant requirements
By: Kim Toscano
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October 24, 2023
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Plan Your Garden

Shrubs and Perennials to Attract Butterflies

Look beyond annual blooms to incite a flurry of butterfly activity in the garden
By: Kim Toscano
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February 27, 2025
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Plan Your Garden

Attract More Birds to the Garden

Plant a diversity of shrubs and perennials to provide birds with food and shelter year-round
By: Kim Toscano
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October 24, 2023
Gardenia ScentAmazing border planted around a garden shed backed by Oakleaf Hydrangea and containers of Heucherella
Plan Your Garden

Add Timeless Beauty With Gardenias And Their Companion Plants

Highlight the elegance of Southern Living Gardenias — and extend the bloom season — with these plant combo ideas
By: Erica Glasener
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September 26, 2024
Easter basket-like containers of ornamental grass Carex and Southern Living Nandinas
Inspiration & Projects//Plan Your Garden

Plant Combinations: Obsession Nandina Containers for Easter Morning

Celebrate the season with colorful foliage of Obsession Nandina & playful decor
By: Kim Toscano
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October 24, 2023
Garden border of Yewtopia and Everest Carex
Plan Your Garden

Asian Design Inspiration for Your Backyard

Create a serene garden retreat at home with these tips
By: Kim Toscano
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October 24, 2023
Purple Pixie Loropetalum in decorative container with rich purple foliage.
Plan Your Garden

Select Your Easy-Care Southern Living Loropetalum

A Loropetalum Size Guide
By: Southern Living Plants Staff
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January 15, 2024
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Plan Your Garden

5 Steps to Create Your Secret Garden

Reward yourself at the end of the day with an inviting space to unwind.
By: Kim Toscano
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October 24, 2023
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Plan Your Garden//Planting & Care

10 Plants for Poor Soils

Not all gardeners are blessed with rich, loamy soil.
By: Kim Toscano
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October 24, 2023
Foundation landscape planting of nandina and boxwood
Plan Your Garden

These Landscape Superstars Add Easy-Care Curb Appeal

Make these four Southern Living Plant Collection plants the foundation for your home landscape.
By: Southern Living Plants Staff
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October 24, 2023
Queen Mum Agapanthus, white flowers with lavender bases
Plan Your Garden

Bring on the Blooms: 10 Reasons to Plant Agapanthus

If their buoyant blooms aren’t enough to sell you, here are ten more reasons to love agapanthus.
By: Southern Living Plants Staff
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October 24, 2023
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Plan Your Garden

Video: Plant Your Delicious Downhome Harvest

Get to know the tastiest additions to our collection – DownHome Harvest berry plants and fruit trees.
By: Mary Beth Shaddix
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October 24, 2023
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Plan Your Garden

3 Key Landscape Design Elements

Understanding Mass, Form and Line
By: Kim Toscano
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October 24, 2023
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Plan Your Garden

Plant Combinations: Set the Mood Container Combo

Create an atmosphere of calm and comfort with container combinations featuring Blush Pink Nandina
By: Southern Living Plants Staff
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October 24, 2023
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Plan Your Garden

Five Ways to Use Nandina in Your Landscape

How to integrate this Southern beauty into your garden
By: Kim Toscano
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October 24, 2023
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Plan Your Garden

Harness the Versatility of Evergreen Shrubs with Cleyera  

From a sizzling summer fling to everlasting love, Romeo and Juliet Cleyera deliver short-term radiance or long-term drama to the garden. 
By: Kim Toscano
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August 28, 2024
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