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- Carolina Seasons Nursery
- Fishing Creek Tree Farm
- Five Oaks Nursery
- Gary's Nursery
- Green Biz Nursery and Landscape
- Growing Wild Nursery
- Middle Sound Landscaping, Inc.
- Morris Nursery & Landscaping
- Muddy Waters Aquatic Nursery
- Parker Bark
- Seaside Mulch
- Smith's Nursery
- Southview Greenhouse
- Star Ridge Auatics
- The Plant Park
- United Turf
- Wagoner's Nursery
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- Appledoorn Landscape Nursery
- Big Horse Creek Farm
- Carolina Native Nursery
- Fry Nursery & Landscape
- Haiku Bamboo Nursery
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- Honeybee's Paradise
- Jacobs Creek Stone Co.
- Jericho Farms
- Jesse Israel and Sons Nursery
- Landmark Landscapes
- Meadowbrook Nursery
- North Carolina Ginseng & Goldenseal Co.
- North Lake Christmas Tree Nursery
- Owens Orchids
- Pine Lake Nursery & Landscaping
- Pleasant Ridge Nursery and Landscaping
- Price Nursery
- Quaker Meadows Nursery
- Reems Creek Valley Nursery
- Rux Gardens
- Sam's Nursery
- Santa's Trees
- Southeastern Natives
- Spillman's Christmas Trees
- The Mustard Seed Market
- Turf Mountain Sod
- Watauga Country Farmer's Market
- Western North Carolina Green News
- Wildcat Ridge Farm
- Wolfc Ceek Tree Farm
NCNLA Members Piedmont
- A & A Plants
- A.B. Seed Company Farmers Market Garden Center
- Adcock's Nursery
- Atlantic Avenue Orchid and Garden Center
- Bland Landscaping
- Boundary Waters Farm
- Bountiful Gardens Greenhouse
- Camelia Forest
- Chirs' Greenhouse
- Color Landscapes
- Daddy Pete's Plant Pleaser
- DeWaynes
- Dickinson Garden Center
- Fairview Garden Center
- Family Home and Garden Center
- Fast Growing Trees
- Finch's Blueberries
- Flynthill Farm
- Fountain Landscaping
- Frank's Perennial Border
- Gar-Mac Irrigation
- Garden Eureka
- Garden Gate Nurseries
- Garden Supply Company
- Golden Leaf Nursery
- Gossett Nursery
- GreenView Garden Center
- Guildford Garden Center
- H & H Farm Machine Company
- Heaven Sent Roses
- Homewood Nursery
- Kiefer Landscaping
- King's Greenhouse
- L.A. Reynolds Garden Showcase
- LanArc
- Landvision Designs
- Living Landscapes
- Logan's Trading Company
- McDonnell Horticulture
- Mitchell's Nursery and Greenhouse
- Mitchelle JamesEnviro-Developers
- Niche Gardens
- Nichols Nursery
- Norwood Road Garden Center
- Page Road Garden Center
- Piedmont Turf
- Plant Delights Nursery
- Planting For You
- Tarheel Native Trees
- Terragen Nursery
- The Garden Hut
- Tom's Creek Farm & Nursery
- Trees 2 Go
- TriPlants
- Turtle Creek Nursery
- Watson's Nursery
- Whitaker Farm
- Wright Brother's Services
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- Best Garden Blogs
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- Color Landscapes
- Decorate a Garden
- Defining Your Home, Garden and Travel
- Finding Plant Treasurers in the Foothills
- FlowerGardenGirl™
- Garden of Words
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- Green Nursery
- Heartland Ramblings
- Leave me Alone I'm Digging
- Leave me alone, I'm digging
- Morgan Creek Chronicles
- Nevertheless…
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- Outside Clyde
- Randy and Meg's Garden Paradise
- Seven b Gardener
- Squash's Garden
- Western North Carolina Green News
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- Carolina Gardener
- Carolina Outdoors Guide
- Garden Club of North Carolina
- Garden Coach Directory
- Gardening Carolina Forum
- Gardening With Confidence™
- JC Raulston Arboretum
- News from JoCoPlants
- North Carolina Master Gardener
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- Seaside Mulch
- Triangle Gardener
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- Fine Gardening Magazine Blog
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- Garden Variety – The Baltimore Sun
- Gardening for Nature
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- Gardening While Intoxicated
- Gardening With Confidence™
- Gardens of the Wild, Wild, West
- Growing a Garden in Davis
- Grumpy Gardener – Southern Living Magazine
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- http://colorlandscapes.wordpress.com/
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- In The Garden
- InterLeafings
- Lamtreefarmnursery.com
- Ledge and Gardens
- Martha Stewart Living – In the Garden
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- Mr. McGregor's Daughter
- My Corner of Katy
- Nancy's Garden Spot
- Over Planted – Tom Fischer
- Patient Gardener
- Perennial Gardener
- perryswatergardens.net
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- Red Dirt Ramblings
- Robert's Tropical Paradise Garden
- Sanctuary Native Plants
- Seasonal Wisdom
- Seven b Gardener
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- Sweet Home and Garden Chicago
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An arbor addition transforms the garden
An arbor serves as a portal into a garden room; a transition point to tell a visitor it’s time to pause, giving you a change in perspective. Training vines to cover the arbor, brings garden life to another dimension — reason enough to want to find the perfect spot in your garden to add an arbor. Continue reading
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The Iris, the larkspur and the peony
The Iris, the larkspur, and the peony. It kind of sounds like a mystery series, and in many ways it is. It is possible to plan you garden to get three wonderful spring bloomers performing at the same time.
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A Walk in the Winter Garden
Reprinted from Triangle Gardener January/February issue…. Flowers, berries, evergreens and grasses will fill the winter garden with wildlife and give you reason to walk around. One of the best parts about living in North Carolina are winters worthy of gardening. … Continue reading
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New Year, New Plans, New Plants
After the last Auld Lang Syne is sung, pull out some paper and plan for new plants in the new year. Continue reading
Water-wise Garden Design
Waterwise design is not only worthy, but a win-win. A waterwise garden comprises three gardening zones: oasis, transitional, and xeric. The oasis zone is the area closest to a water source: drain spouts, rain barrels, spigot, etc. The transitional zone … Continue reading
Tall, Lush Plants
Take your garden from the ground up by adding height. With tall, willowy, nodding or upright, flowers or leaf, grasses or bananas, adding height to the garden, adds drama. Tall plants have a place in any garden size. They can … Continue reading
Privacy Design
There is no reason to sit on your back deck and only to look over at your neighbor doing the same, but looking back at you. Plan for privacy. Fences will certainly give instant privacy, but they can leave the … Continue reading
Cottage Garden Design
Climbing roses arching around an arbor, or peonies popping through a white picket fence, a birdhouse perched on post; these are just a few images that come to mind when dreaming about cottage garden design. While it seems that anything … Continue reading
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