A primer on when and how to prune climbing plants so they flower beautifully, stay healthy, and remain under control Read How to Prune Your Vines and Other Climbing Plants
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Plant Choices
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Plant ChoicesEcological Gardening
How to Prune Your Vines and Other Climbing Plants
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Garden DesignPlant Choices
Spring-Bulb Design Primer
Plan a gorgeous bulb display with snow drops, daffodils, tulips, fritillaria and other flowers that blooms in series as the season unfolds. Read Spring-Bulb Design Primer
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Plant ChoicesThe Climate CrisisBBG Gardens & Collections
Why Is the Native Flora Garden Pond Green?
That's not algae, it's the world's smallest flowering plant! Read Why Is the Native Flora Garden Pond Green?
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Plant ChoicesUrban Gardening
Weed of the Month: Chicory
Its roots taste like coffee, its leaves taste like dandelion greens, and its blue flowers will be gone before you know it. Read Weed of the Month: Chicory
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Plant ChoicesGrowing Food
Agastache: Fragrant Foliage and Colorful Blooms
This lovely, sweet-smelling mint relative will add color and attract pollinators to you garden in summer and fall. Read Agastache: Fragrant Foliage and Colorful Blooms
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Plant ChoicesGrowing Food
The Asparagus Pea
This pretty legume has deep red flowers and lovely frilled seedpods, which are edible and taste like asparagus. They are delicious in a salad with shrimp, tofu, and chile paste (recipe included). Read The Asparagus Pea
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Plant ChoicesGrowing Food
Red-Stemmed Malabar Spinach
Easy to grow and delicious to eat, this vigorous vine is unrelated to true spinach but produces abundant large leaves that are remarkably spinachlike. It's also much better suited for summer growing than its better-known namesake. Read Red-Stemmed Malabar Spinach
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Plant Choices
Irises for Summer and Fall
Reblooming and late-blooming iris cultivars extend the season for this garden favorite. Read Irises for Summer and Fall
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CherriesPlant ChoicesUrban Gardening
Plant a Cherry Tree of Your Own
Flowering cherry trees make great additions to a home garden or back yard. They come in all shapes and sizes and can grow well in many different types of soil. Read Plant a Cherry Tree of Your Own
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Plant ChoicesBBG Gardens & Collections
Bloom Alert: Magnolia Plaza
The early-blooming specimens have blossomed, with later ones to follow throughout April and early May. Read Bloom Alert: Magnolia Plaza