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Best Small Native Evergreen Shrubs
15 best dwarf evergreen shrubs to plant in fall in every region Native globular dwarf evergreens can punctuate the corners of beds as well as the boxes at Rough Point, Newport Can you think about fall...
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Celebrating 1 Year!
12 inspiring rewilding success stories from around the worldMy dear subscribers, There are now more than 6,500 of you across 49 states and dozens of other countries, far exceeding the ambitious goal I...
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Mulch Ado About Mulch
Plus, 13 easy, eco-friendly ways to dispose of yard waste Dear Avant Gardener, I am interested in affordable, natural looking mulch for my growing native garden. Do you have any recommendations and...
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How to Get Started
10 really easy ways to start using native plants in your yard Dear Avant Gardener, I moved into a new home and am eager to turn the lawn-and-boring-foreign-foundation-shrubs into an integrated...
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To Edge or Not to Edge
Plus, the latest, scary research on glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup Gravel path in Florida garden (photo: Tom Hewitt) Dear Avant Gardener, Something I want to see more discussion of and...
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Creating Lush & Evergreen Urban Gardens
How to create a lovely lush, evergreen city garden to withstand climate change; plus, removing lead from soil Adam's needle (Yucca filamentosa), a shade-loving, salt-tolerant Louisiana native Dear...
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Tiny + Wild: Small Garden Solutions
Plants that look good dead, as well as evergreens, make sensational small urban spaces. A U.K. garden designed by Piet Oudolf in winter (photo: Piet Oudolf; source: The New York Times) Dear Avant...
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Plants that Look Great in Winter
How to create a gorgeous Piet Oudolf winter garden with native plants Piet Oudolf’s Floral Labyrinth at Trentham Gardens (source: Trentham) Dear Avant Gardener, Would you please share the plant names...
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How Does Landscaping Affect Your Home's Value?
Plus, a peek into Zillow listings that mention native landscaping Listing at Desert Mountain, in Scottsdale, which requires native plants. Dear Avant Gardener, I'm interested in native landscaping from...
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For the Joy of It
12 benefits of gardening from recent research Legacy is a benefit of home gardening. This is me, a Brooklyn kid burying food waste in my grandmother's New Hampshire garden, circa 1970 Dear Avant...
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Seed a Meadow Now for Big Savings
Sowing a prairie or meadow in winter is easy and cheap. Paths and destinations at the Vitra company campus, designed by Piet Oudolf Dear Avant Gardener (aka Mommy), I’m looking forward to starting your...
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Answers to Your Meadow Seeding Questions
Plus, discover how bird species are faring in your town. The Washington Post's new interactive analysis of eBird data by species Thanks to all of you who replied to my recent article about seeding a...
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Why I Ignore USDA Hardiness Zones
Plus, what’s "native" in a warming climate? Source: Environmental Protection Agency Dear Avant Gardener, We’re originally from Pennsylvania, where when it’s too cold to work outside, things go dormant...
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Firescaping to Protect Your Family from Wildfires
Discover your wildfire risk and protect your family with a safely wild yard. Cassy Aoyagi's fire resistant yard (photo: Lesly Hall) Dear Avant Gardener, About leaving fallen wood lying in place: Many...
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Spring Already? Native Flowers for Now
Light up your shade with these early-spring-flowering natives Left, reader’s exotic hellebores; right, native spring beauty (Claytonia virginica, photo: Adobe) Dear Avant Gardener, Right now, I’m...
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How to Design Outdoor Lights
And affordably make an actually awesome home and yard (that’s also safe for wildlife) How light is your sky? New Mexico, left, protects its night skies. The Catskills, where my subscriber lives, has...
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75 Fabulous Native Shrubs and Trees
These keystone species are as easy and beautiful as they are important. Good morning, Yardener!This newsletter is a short one, because I’ve been working so hard to get ready for tonight’s class of...
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Vibrant Native Plants for Shade
Incredible species for your woodland garden — plus, why and how to order plugs for spring planting. Asarum canadense, wild ginger (photo: stonepocket.com) Woohoo, Yardener! Time to order for spring...
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Gardening Through Grief
Plus, super sun-loving native plants to celebrate life In memory of my beloved daughter, Eva Evans. Dear Yardener,I had already ordered hundreds of plugs before the devastating call, but they haven’t...
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The Fast, Cheap Way to a Nice Enough Native Plant Landscape
Or, how we transformed Lila’s yard in a weekend Lila takes a break from work to see how well Zoe and I are following the design she created in Transform Your Yard. Dear Yardener,I headed back to...
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