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Skeleton Flowers

November is the month when flower gardeners who have not yet cut down all of their herbaceous plants may still find a few specimens in the garden for dried bouquets.

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Colorful Shrubs

This native grows 6-9 feet tall in full sun or partial shade and has white flowers in the Spring and then white berries later. Another possibility is Doublefile Viburnum ‘Pink Beauty' (hardy zones...

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Thanksgiving Table

On today's Focus On Flowers, we've got a festive design for your Thanksgiving table!

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Winterberry

Winterberry produces a grand display of bright red berries that persist and light up its branches long after all of the leaves have fallen.

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St. Cecilia and Spirituality in Gardening

It has been said that when the weather is cold, as in British gardens, there are paths for walking, and where the weather is hot as in desert areas of the world, there are more pools and places to...

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Creating A Thanksgiving Centerpiece With Texture

As the cold weather comes into my Midwestern garden, I grow somewhat mournful because it will be months before I see the results of the bulbs planted this fall.

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Spicebush Provides A Refined Softness To A Shady Landscape

Lindera benzoin, commonly known as spicebush, is a native multi-stemmed, understory shrub that can grow as wide as it is tall.

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Red Chokeberry

Our native Aronia arbutifolia with the common name of red chokeberry is a shrub that offers four seasons of interest in our gardens.

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Native Sumacs

Our native sumacs have vibrant, colorful foliage in autumn, and yet they are often overlooked as shrubs for residential gardens.

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More Plants To Avoid

More invasive plant to avoid include oriental bittersweet, garlic mustard, reed canary grass, common reed grass and the autumn olive.

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Fillers Supplement Flowers In A Bouquet

At certain times of the year we just don’t have quite enough flowers. This is when "filler" is really important.

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Pyracanthas’ Berries Brighten Winter Landscape

Pyracantha is a shrub with evergreen glossy foliage and broad spreading growth. One disadvantage is its thorns, thus the common name of firethorn.

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Thanksgiving Flowers and Leaves

For flower lovers, a Thanksgiving table is not complete without some blooms.

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American Beautyberry

Callicarpa americana makes a good hedge on the outskirts of a garden, as well as excellent ornamental focal points in borders.

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Twelfth Night

Do you wait until Twelfth Night to take down the Christmas tree and holiday decorations?

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Bloom Sequences

Most flower gardeners enjoy sequences of bloom in their beds.

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Cardinals

Plant lots of nasturtiums, coneflowers, and sunflowers to provide seeds for these year-round garden residents.

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Shrubs For Shade

The catalogs have arrived in the mail, so we are all thinking about what to order...

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Preparing For Winter

I make my potpourri using the rose petals and flower heads that I cut off while deadheading all summer.

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