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woman in a green garden, using a trowel to plant

June in the Miami Valley is full-throttle. The peonies are heavy with blooms. The tomatoes you planted last month have doubled in size. Your lettuce is ready to eat, the herbs smell incredible, and everything in the yard is growing faster than you can keep up with it. 

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How to Design Your Dream Garden: A Guide to Layering Plants for Shape, Color, and Structure

A customer came in last spring with a sketch of her garden and a lot of enthusiasm. She knew where the sun hit her yard and when, she knew what she wanted it to feel like by midsummer, and she was ready to go. We spent a happy half hour walking the aisles together, picking plants for specific spots in her beds. By the time we were done, every plant in that cart had a job in her garden. That's layering, and it's one of our favorite things to help people plan. 

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Ohio Native Plants for Every Yard: What to Grow in Sun, Shade, Wet Soil, and Clay

We're nuts about natives around here. Not just the usual coneflowers and black-eyed Susans (though we love those, too), but the plants we really get excited about are the ones most gardeners haven't discovered yet.

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Seasonal Secrets: What You Can Plant in March (and What Needs to Wait) for Zone 6

March in the Miami Valley is a tease. One afternoon you're in a t-shirt soaking up sunshine; the next morning there's frost on the windshield and you're second-guessing everything. If you've been eyeing your bare garden beds (or wandering the aisles with a cart full of maybes), you're not alone. Every year, we hear the same question from fellow gardeners: What can I actually plant right now without losing it all to a late freeze? 

Turns out, there's plenty you can do this weekend.

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How to Make the Most of Your Garden Space, For Any Size or Type (Part Two)

Every garden has potential—you just need the right approach to make the most of the space you’ve got. Some gardeners grow for the harvest, others for the joy of color, sound, and texture. Whatever your reason, creating a space that reflects your style and makes you feel at home is what gardening’s all about—and we’re here to help.

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Houseplants for Every Home and Every Lifestyle

Most plant guides tell you what's easy or what's popular. What they don't tell you is whether a plant will actually work in your home, with your schedule, around your pets, in your light. We're gardeners, just like you, and helping you find that match is what we do. 

Indoor plant success depends less on botanical skill and more on honest assessment of your space and lifestyle. 

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