Amy Mitchell
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- Aug 11, 2026
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- Jul 14, 2026
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This Stunning Tropical Plant Looks Like Living Art—and It’s Easy to Grow at Home (opens the original)
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I have a menagerie of favorite plants that I grow every year in the ground and in containers—annuals such as coleus, plumbago, lantana, and sunflowers. My perennials list is even longer: black-eyed Susans, candytuft, phlox, gaura, salvia, Stokes’ aster, and a Pink Delight Butterfly Bush to attract pollinators to my garden. But one plant in particular has really captured my heart: the polka dot begonia. After growing it for a couple of years, it’s solidified its place as my favorite plant, and I
This Easy-to-Grow Plant Brings Months of Color—and You Can Multiply It for Free (opens the original)
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A longtime favorite plant among gardeners, coleus is beloved for its variety of dynamic colorways that bring richness and depth to spring, summer, and fall gardens. With its velvety, textured foliage that’s soft to the touch and a fantastical feast for the eyes, colorful coleus feels equally at home in formal outdoor landscapes, rambling cottage gardens, mixed containers, and lining a shady path or border. But there’s more to coleus than meets the eye. This hardy plant is easy to grow and even e
This Late-Blooming Perennial Brings Vibrant Color to Your Fall Garden After Summer Flowers Fade (opens the original)
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As the riotous color of your summer garden slowly fades away, the vibrant aster is just getting started. Not only do these late bloomers bring a welcome burst of color to garden beds and borders, but they also make a lively addition to fall flower arrangements, bringing a cool pop against autumn’s warmer palette. With a classic flower shape like a daisy and yellow centers as well, asters come in purples, blues, pinks, and white, too. In fact, due to their similar characteristics, asters are comm
This Tough-as-Nails Perennial Blooms for Months—and Attracts Butterflies to Your Garden (opens the original)
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A gorgeous garden can come to fruition in many ways: a well-laid plan by a talented landscape designer, perfect growing conditions, or a green thumb you inherited from your grandmother. But seasoned gardeners know one secret to a glorious garden: low-maintenance perennials—those dependable beauties that return bigger and better year after year. Some of our favorite low-maintenance perennials include bright and sunny black-eyed Susans, stunning salvia, and colorful coneflowers, just to name a few
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