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Highlights from the Lafayette Square Spring Home and Garden Tour-2025
The 56th Lafayette Square Spring Home and Garden Tour took place June 7th and 8th in and around the historic St. Louis neighborhood surrounding Lafayette Park. 12 properties were included on this year’s…
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Garden Vignettes Garden Tour Highlights
The Plant America FGCM East Central District Garden Tour on June 7th, featured 10 member gardens in Webster Groves, Town & Country, Fenton, Sunset Hills, Melville, and Oakville, Missouri. Proceeds go toward the…
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Garden-Lou Spotlights Kathie Soehngen
Oakville, Missouri Garden-Lou had the recent pleasure of meeting with Kathie Soehngen in the Oakville Garden she’s created, nurtured, and enjoyed with her husband, Jim for over 49 years. The Soehngen Garden will…
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May Tree of the Month-Kousa Dogwood
After our native dogwoods, Cornus florida, April Tree of the Month-Dogwood, finish blooming, the kousa dogwoods take the stage. Cornus kousa (syn. Benthamidia japonica) is native to Japan, Korea, and China and can…
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May Shrub of the Month-Deutzia
Deutzia is not a well-known shrub among most homeowners or average gardeners. I had never heard of it before until I started taking plant ID classes. It didn’t seem like anything special, until…
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May Perennial of the Month-False Indigo
One of the most striking native perennials for our area is the false indigos. Baptisia australis, with its royal purple blooms, and Baptisia sphaerocarpa, with its sunny yellow flowers, are both so structural…
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Road Trip Garden-Sadie Seymour Botanical Garden
Kona, Hawaii Sadie Seymour Botanical Garden is adjacent to the Kona Education Center in Kona, on the Big Island of Hawaii. The lush 1.5-acre garden was created by landscape architect Scott Seymour and…
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April Tree of the Month-Crabapple
If one could bottle up the scents of childhood, for me, it would be the lingering smell of melting tinsel against C7 Christmas tree bulbs, The sharp scent of Bactine on scraped knees,…
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April Shrub of the Month-Burkwood Viburnum
Burkwood Viburnum, Viburnum x burkwoodii is what we call a “hybrid” in the plant world. If you aren’t a botanist or horticulturalist, that little “x” in the botanical name is the clue that…
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April Perennial of the Month-Dutchman’s Breeches
April is the best month to walk in the woods and view some of our native ephemerals. These plants have evolved to live in areas of Eastern North America once covered by forest.…
