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What Color Can Do for Your Garden

Some colors and combinations are just naturally more appealing to our individual tastes. What’s your favorite color? Do you tend to use a lot of it in your own garden? While yellow, pink and white are the most common flower colors in gardens, practically every shade and hue can be found in plants when you include all of the parts—flowers, leaves, stems, seeds and bark. And colors, especially foliage, can change throughout the seasons. This can be great to have so many options! But if you’re just getting started, it can also be overwhelming. Sometimes putting colors together may not turn out the way you

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