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It’s just the look I was hoping for!

Those are the ones you should start with!Even if you don’t know the name of that plant, go to the nursery when you notice that it’s in bloom in your neighborhood and find it that way!

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There’s nothing worse than finding a beautiful, expensive plant that you’ve never seen before, bringing it home, and then learning after the fact that it’s outside of your skill-set as a gardener.Practice with the basics first until you get good at it!.If you’ve used a plant in your garden before, and you know how it’s going to do, that’s a great bet too!

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I had some of these bachelor’s buttons at my old house and I know I could never manage to kill them, no matter how neglected they got, so a few of these won a spot in the garden too.. Buy smaller plants and be patient..This is the hard one, right?

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We could have spent a fortune on buying really nice, big, mature plants and having a bit of instant gratification, but it’s worth it to have one or two years of an “OK” garden, before it really becomes the garden of our dreams.

We’ll learn so much watching the plants grow during that time too.Here it is next to the.

Valentine’s tree.that’s saving V-Day for my whole family..

I stuck a few other Valentinesy things around, like this heart on a piece of wood that Kennedy painted for me last year.. …well, actually, that’s really about it.. It’s mostly festive.And that’s good enough.