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Free planting templatesI often find getting started is the hardest part of many projects. I was recently reminded how true that is for gardening when a Master Gardener from Newport News wrote to me about a fantastic project she is working on with her fellow gardeners: a "Getting Started" kit tailored specifically to Virginia coastal gardens. This sounds like a terrific idea and I hope to be able to share it when it is ready for prime time. In the meantime, her note jogged my memory about…

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Maryland Cottage Garden Design on Instagram: "Every garden—especially a cottage garden—has a formula for success.

That formula is 20% spikes + 40% mounded/domed + 40% fans and fillers = a balanced and texturally complementary gardenscape. 💃🏻 

Spike shaped plants are any that shoot up into the air and add height and spikey texture—like foxglove, baptisia, lupine, delphinium, hollyhocks, sunflowers, verbena bonariensis, stachys hummelo, monarda, agastache, giant allium, liatris, and bearded iris.

Other plants like salvia, lavender, and catmint are technically spiked in shape, but they’re considered mounded varieties because the foliage and size stay compact. Nothing shoots up drastically higher to emphasize the spike. Make sense?

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Maryland Cottage Garden Design on Instagram: "Every garden—especially a cottage garden—has a formula for success. That formula is 20% spikes + 40% mounded/domed + 40% fans and fillers = a balanced and texturally complementary gardenscape. 💃🏻 Spike shaped plants are any that shoot up into the air and add height and spikey texture—like foxglove, baptisia, lupine, delphinium, hollyhocks, sunflowers, verbena bonariensis, stachys hummelo, monarda, agastache, giant allium, liatris, and…

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