A look back at the earlier months of the growing season in St. Paul

Gaillardia is an easy-to-grow perennial that puts on a burst of color throughout the summer months. With a few simple preparations, you can set up your plants to survive winter's chill and come back healthy in springtime. Learn how to care for your blanket flowers during the winter in this guide. Read more now.

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Learn more about ‘Fireworks’ wrinkle-leaved goldenrod and how to grow it

Learn about wild bleeding heart, an underappreciated native perennial

Learn about this beautiful, cold-hardy, and deer-resistant plant that does well in dry shade

A look back at the changing seasons in St. Paul

Tough plants that stand up to dry conditions

The farmhouse could wait; Laura Grimm had 11 acres to reclaim and a flower farm to build

A few colorful views from a garden in Sterling Heights

Your boysenberry bushes provided tasty sweet-tart berries through the summer, and now they’ve died back. You know they’re going to return in the spring – as long as you can keep them warm this winter. But how do you do that? What steps are involved? Learn everything you need to know in our guide. Read more.

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A little autumn beauty from the Pacific Northwest

Tracy Buttrick shares more of her autumn container designs from homes throughout New Jersey

Ellen Goldfarb takes a natural approach to fall container design with arrangements that don’t require watering

Garden designer Tracy Buttrick makes the most of limited planting space with colorful autumn arrangements for New Jersey homes

A garden that takes care of itself

Elizabeth shares two lovely views of her Bozeman garden

If you are growing peonies you'll need to know how to care for them over the cold winter months. Peony plants require a period of dormancy and chilling hours to bloom again next season. So how do you prepare your plants for winter? Learn all about winter care for peonies in this guide. Read more now.

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Repeated colors and contrasting textures carry this New Jersey border into autumn

A returning GPOD contributor shares some of the combinations still putting on a show as summer winds down

By reader request, we’re heading back to January 2010 to see what came next in the GPOD archives