9 Low-Maintenance Border Material Ideas For Cleaner Flower Beds
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9 Low-Maintenance Border Material Ideas For Cleaner Flower Beds

Admit it. You want a yard that looks like a magazine cover, but you also have a life. Or you’re trying to get one. What’s stopping you? Probably your lack of boundaries, and I mean the garden kind. Skip a couple of overpriced lattes with boring people, and you’ve saved enough money to start turning…

12 Low-Mess Flowers That Keep Borders Looking Neat
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12 Low-Mess Flowers That Keep Borders Looking Neat

I know you’re afraid of flowers behaving like toddlers in a ball pit. They’re cute for five minutes, max. Then there’s chaos everywhere, and your border looks like it gave up. If you want a garden border that stays within the lines, you just need plants with a basic sense of decorum. If you’re trying…

15 Edible Fence Ideas That Combine Beauty and Function
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15 Edible Fence Ideas That Combine Beauty and Function

Dear reader, let me tell you about the time I ate my fence and my neighbor preemptively called an ambulance. Apparently, “grazing on the property line” isn’t a standard hobby, but my homegrown chokeberry tasted better than his judgment. It also looked far prettier than any wooden barrier ever could. Why settle for a plain…

10 Stunning No-Mow Lawn Ideas Using Ground Covers
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10 Stunning No-Mow Lawn Ideas Using Ground Covers

My mower belongs in a museum, not a garage. And yet, until a few years ago, I really thought it would come in handy one day. It didn’t. I was given a packet of teeny-tiny seeds that changed my little landscape… and my weekend routine. No Mow Struggle Ever I see most of my neighbors…

14 Best Edible Hedge Ideas for a Beautiful and Productive Garden
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14 Best Edible Hedge Ideas for a Beautiful and Productive Garden

Living the dream involves eating your way through the yard. Flowers are lovely, sure, but fruit is better. instead of planting another plain green barrier, why not grow something that feeds you back? Brace yourself, an upgrade is coming. Your garden will never look (or taste) the same. 14 Hedges That Pays You Back Ready…

9 Best Companion Plants for Peonies (And What to Avoid)
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9 Best Companion Plants for Peonies (And What to Avoid)

Your peonies are ready to pollen love and settle down. The only challenge right now is picking a partner that shares a thirst for life and a love of well-drained spots. Hint: Why choose? Plant the entire fellowship. Honestly, the more the merrier. Nothing Puny About Peony A thriving garden bed is one where all…