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I Tried Growing an Avocado From Seed: Here’s What Actually Matters
Every avocado comes with a free houseplant inside it. That’s the pitch, anyway, and it’s mostly true: an avocado pit will sprout on a kitchen counter with nothing more than…
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Could Succulents Work With Your Wedding Style? These Ideas Make a Strong Case
Cut flowers have a clock running from the moment they leave the field. Succulents don’t. They can be bought weeks before the wedding, they sit happily through a hot afternoon…
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Space-Saving Herb Garden Ideas for Indoors and Outdoors
An herb garden needs plenty of sun and very little space. Most culinary herbs are small, happy in pots, and more productive the more you cut them, which makes them…
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Small Pool, Big Escape: Mediterranean Landscaping Ideas for Compact Yards
A Mediterranean pool doesn’t need a cliffside in Mallorca. It needs warm stone underfoot, terracotta pots, a few silver-leaved plants that smell good in the heat, and some shade to…
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Rose and Lily Bouquet Ideas for Every Style and Occasion
Roses and lilies work together because they’re opposites. A rose is compact, round and layered; a lily is big, open and star-shaped, with a scent that fills a room. Put…
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I Turned My Kitchen Windowsill Into a Mini Jungle: Here’s What I’d Change
A kitchen window full of plants looks wonderful in photos and slightly less wonderful when you’re trying to fill a pot of pasta water around a trailing pothos. Kitchen plants…
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Garden Statues and Sculptures: How to Choose a Style Without Overdoing It
One well-placed garden statue gives the eye a place to land. Five statues scattered wherever there happened to be a gap turn it into a garden center clearance aisle. The…
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What I Look at Before Planting a North-, South-, East- or West-Facing Garden
The direction a garden faces decides how much sun it gets, when it gets it and how hot it runs, and that in turn decides almost everything else: which plants…
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From Aerial Roots to Moss Poles: Everything Your Monstera Actually Needs
Good monstera care comes down to four things: bright light without harsh sun, water only when the top of the soil has dried, a chunky mix that lets the roots…