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2018 is the year of bringing your favorite aspects of life - outdoors. Whether you are considering adding a new landscaping feature or giving your yard a design makeover, this year’s top landscaping trends are full of ideas to inspire and help you get started.

Trends from outdoor living elements such as kitchens and fireplaces, to stone accents and low maintenance plantings will help you envision your yard as an outdoor living space that can be shared with friends and family alike.

Read through our take on this year’s top trends and let the experts at Ted Lare guide you through creating a yard that will both increase the resale value of your home and give you a space to enjoy for years to come.

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ContainerGarden TrendsEvery year, the gardening world comes alive with new trends and plants to rejuvenate our gardens. This year, the trends are all about filling your garden with color and beauty with bright and beautiful new plants, but also transforming it into a space for rest, relaxation, and bask-ing in nature.

New edibles will turn your garden into a destination for the freshest and most delicious finds, while new annu-als are sure to dazzle wherever they are planted. They’ll look especially radiant in containers where we can take advantage of their spectacular short lives to experiment with colors and textures that can easily be replaced next season with the newest trends. Before you start planning for next year already, though, read on for our best guides and recipes to keep you on-trend and making the most of your garden in 2019.

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Ted Lare is the Des Moines expert in landscape design and installation. With thousands of landscaping projects completed in the past 37 years, our philosophy of doing it right carries with it the Ted Lare promise of the best results, the first time.

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Where does most of your yard maintenance time go? Chances are you’ve spent too many hours mowing, watering, and fertilizing a beautiful lawn. At some points in our lives, we might need a lawn.

Native plants are a gardener’s dream. They’ve evolved perfectly for your normal rainfall, so in a normal season you might not even need to water your plants at all. They’ve also had the chance to develop natural resistance against local pests and disease, as well as being the most attractive to local pollinators.

Watering Help: Mulch will help to prevent soil evaporation, keeping water at the roots of your plants. Not only does this dramatically cut how much you need to work watering your plants, but it also keeps them healthier between waterings.

Weed Control: Mulch will smother weeds, only allowing the plants you want to grow to flourish. With less work, your plants will look better and cleaner than ever.

Biodiversity: Healthy yards have a host of resident predators that keep pests under control. Mulch will give ladybugs, ground beetles, and other tiny mercenaries ideal spots to hide so they can keep your plants healthy for you.

Young kids can certainly demand a very different use of your backyard space. Once you can, exchange maintenance work for time to relax in your yard. Ditch the lawn and install beds of native, low maintenance plants.

Native plants require less pesticides, less fertilizer, and less watering than tropicals or hybrid perennials. They drastically decrease the labor needed to maintain your backyard, stay healthy, and bring an assortment of helpful and beautiful pollinators to boost the health and appeal of the rest of your yard.

Wood mulch is a savior for gardeners looking to enjoy their time outside. It’s easy to install, aesthetically pleasing, cost effective and brings all of these benefits with it:

We recommend using a natural, double shredded, undyed mulch, such as Cedar or Hardwood.

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We also have an award-winning garden center that is the best in Central Iowa. If you love gardening or arejust looking to get your hands dirty for the first time,the Ted Lare Garden Center is the place for you. If you have not visited us, you will love all the landscape installations we have as examples and the enormous selections of flowers, shrubs, trees, fountains, pottery, and locally-sourced garden art.

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Who doesn’t love a summer patio party? Whether it’s the first reason you build an outdoor kitchen or not, the space will have you dazzling guests more often as it practically begs you to throw some steaks on and mix a few drinks. You’ll also save money by craving restaurants less and your own backyard more.

Whether you have a growing family or a desire for extra space, an outdoor kitchen opens up a new frontier of living space. It essentially adds another room to your home with the added bonus of spending more evenings outside where you can relax while the kids run off some energy.

Personal reasons aside, an outdoor kitchen has a real ROI when it comes to resale. Depending on how versatile and appealing your kitchen is to other buyers, you could reap 100% or more of your investment back.

Grilled simply tastes better. The ingredients just taste fresher and when the smell of your food fills the air, you’ll simply be enjoying your meals more. Being able to prep all of your materials outside where you cook them will keep the mess outdoors and make the grilling that much easier.

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Top NewAnnuals 2019

“Every year it seems like our annuals are bigger, better andmore spectacular - and 2019 is no exception.”

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Top NewAnnuals 2019

Our annual gardens are where the hottest of trends get to shine every year. Many years we have our favorites from seasons past holding over to grace our gardens once again, but the temporary nature of annuals has us excited to try new things each year to capitalize on new trends without any risk!

Our favorite annuals for this year bring the best of color, flair, and enthusiasm to our gardens, and with thrilling plants and flowers like these, how could you not be excited about summer and spending some time in your own yard? Every year it seems like our annuals are bigger, better and more spectacular - and 2019 is no exception. These are our top picks for the most popular and successful annuals this year, ready to be brought home to dazzle your backyard and containers:

Begonias are an essential staple in the American garden, but the Canary Wings Begonia brings a uniquely colorful twist to set it apart from the rest. These shade-lovers are a phenomenal way to bring stylish blooms to those darker parts of your yard that might otherwise go uncelebrated, especially with the Canary Wings variation. With this brilliant new variety, you can enjoy golden-chartreuse foliage decorated with pops of crimson flowers, that will truly brighten your shady spots from spring through

There’s something traditional and charming about sunflowers that’s hard to improve upon in the garden - except maybe extending their growing and blooming season so that you have the chance to enjoy their cheerful bright yellow flowers for longer. Sunfinity Sunflowers take the winning formula of our

favorite sunflowers and give them to us with a newly improved and extended blooming time in our garden! A charming presence in the backyard and an excellent choice to cut and enjoy indoors, these blooms are a simple joy that doesn’t quit.

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summer. Plant alone or with other shade lovers in a garden or container for a design that is not only on-trend this summer, but confidently commands attention in your garden design.

Simply chose a location with shade or morning sun and provide well-draining soil to get your begonia off to a great start. For such a complex flower, the Canary Wing Begonia is actually simple to take care of as long as you put in the initial effort to give it the light and drainage it needs.

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This new vinca variation brings the artistry of your garden design to life, with vibrant and intense flowers with stunning petals that look as if they’ve each been hand painted. With new colors, like Black Cherry, Black Coral, and Tangerine, offering top-notch color saturation and style in every bloom, you can take your backyard design from charming to professional with the addition of just one popular Tattoo Vinca variety. Everything that modern gardens look for, the Tattoo Vinca bring intensity, color, and ease of care to your backyard. Simply pick a location with good sun exposure for the brightest and most vibrant results with a healthy plant that is ready to keep working to impress all season.

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Instead of a single flower that’s gone too soon on other sunflowers, enjoy over 100 blooms per plant all summer. These flowers have it all and are extremely low maintenance, so you can just plant them and forget about them - although that will be hard to do with their blooms exploding with enthusiasm all season long. Fit for both containers and gardens, there’s always a way to bring these sunny flowers home to cheer up any garden style and design.

Superbells Doublette

The Love Swept Doublette series brings a hint of romance to your yard with cascading calibrachoa blooms in blushing shades of pink with lacy white trim. We’ve come to trust Superbells varieties to bring the best blooms for the longest in our gardens for years now, and we’re very excited about this popular new color that we can add to our annual repertoire.

Wonderful for containers, these stunning flowers will spill out for a cascading effect of delicate but bountiful blooms that require little to no encouragement and minimal maintenance to absolutely thrive in your backyard. Plant by themselves in a container as they often grow so successfully that they overtake any other container mates. Thankfully, their beautiful pink and white tones on dainty flowers contrasted against emerald foliage is all the statement that you need for a single container - giving you all the lush garden style you want for this year.

New annuals are exciting ways to keep your

garden up to date on all the newest trends. In addition

to following hot styles like color trends (we love the

focus on chartreuse and coral that we’re seeing this

year), picking up some of the newest and hottest

annuals on the market is not only a treat for you with

the latest developments in ease of gardening, but a

style refresher that makes your garden fashionable

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Salvia Skyscrapers

This beautiful bloom offers a uniquely vertical bloom that adds intrigue, contrast, and something strikingly artistic to your garden design this year. Three colors have been introduced in 2019 to offer beautiful blooms in shades of Dark Purple, Pink, and Orange - each prettier than the last and ready to pair with your current backyard style. With flowers towering like a skyscraper far above their foliage you’ll love the unique look and shape of these flowers that draw the eye to them.

Not only stylish, these flowers are also proven to be quite drought and pest resistant, with easy maintenance to make keeping their blooms around a dream. Blooming from late spring all the way through fall, they are practically tailor-made for our Iowa summer season. Try them as a vertical thriller in your containers or as a background element in your landscaping and add intrigue to your garden design this year.

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Container Garden Design 101Container gardening is a design process that works like all art forms, when creativity follows certain guidelines. These aren’t rules, the guidelines are essentially hints on how to create a promising creation that performs well and looks its best. In container gardening, these guidelines are so broad that your imagination is the limit in creating gorgeous, statement-making designs in your own yard.

Containers are the trendsetters of gardening, they’re about creating designs that don’t have any commit-ments. While trees, perennials or landscaping may be about enduring statements, containers are meant for experimentation and following whatever you dream up each year.

Here are a few guidelines to have your annual state-ments looking their best.

The Biggest Isn’t Always the Best

Traditional container gardening in the era of cookie-cutter, identical suburban homes was about cramming as many flowers and colors into one pot as you could. We’ve matured and refined our aim since then to something more statement-making.

With the realization that container gardening can be an art, came all of tools that artists use to create their masterpieces. Gardeners have discovered an ability to experiment with the subtleties of textures and color in different plants, branches, leaves, and flowers. Container gardening has grown up past playing with contrasting color, to weaving in all the elements of shape and texture to build a better vocabulary for creating beautiful designs at home.

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Back to the Basics

A few guidelines to keep your designs gorgeous every year:• Choose whatever shape and size of container that

works for you, whether that’s short, tall, skinny, or wide. To keep a good sense of scale in your design, your plants should be 1.3x taller than your container (so, the height of the container, plus another third).

• Place your centerpiece according to how your container is going to be viewed. If you want to look at your container from all directions, the centrepiece should be in the middle, but if it is against a wall, the centrepiece should go at the back. This will drastically change how much room you have at the sides of the container for color and filler plants, so choose the width of your pot or groupings of plants to suit your ideas.

• Remember to check how big your plants will get when you are buying and designing, so that you keep in mind how your container will mature over the season.

Well-designed containers tend to abide by a rule of having elements of a centerpiece, plants for body and volume, and trailing plants. How you combine these in your own containers is very flexible, allowing for unique and personalized trendy designs that are guaranteed to work.

Central plants can be either flowering or foliage, but they function as the body and bulk of your container design. They typically have a mounding habit and fill in the shape of your container. This is the ideal element to use for tying everything in your container together to make a statement. Keep proportions in mind to keep your fillers in synchronization with the rest of your design.

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The “Thriller”

Trailing plants provide cascades of foliage or flowers out of the container and provide an improved sense of height to your container. Including trailing plants with more volume can do double duty as filler plants as well, as they might grow both upwards and down. Good planning can make these robust plants a lush element of the design, instead of competitors for space. If you have a tall container, or a container you don’t like as much as your design, long vines are a great choice to mask parts of it. On the other hand, trailing lengths of vines might not look well-proportioned in a shorter container.

The “Spiller”

These are your centerpiece plants. They provide a focal point and are usually the most bold architectural feature in your design. There are many different varieties of styles to consider here, ranging from straight and vertical grasses, to lush and leafy. The shape and form of your centerpiece plant will have a lot of influence over the shape of your container and the rest of the plants you consider.

The aspects of a Thriller, Filler, and Spiller are architectural guidelines for anyone to play with in their own containers. Other aspects like texture, color, and scent are also great ways to experiment with new trends each year and craft container designs that are perfect for you and your home, every time.

“Craft container designs that are perfectfor you and your home, every time.”

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This is an exciting year for our gardens and our kitch-ens, with lots of new colors, styles, and flavors to bring to your own backyard. The theme of our 2019 garden seems to be plants that are not only delicious, but stun-ning to look at in our gardens, boasting interesting color combinations and patterns that make your dinner into a homegrown work of art.

Just because our edible gardens are incredibly func-tional doesn’t mean that they can’t contribute to our summertime aesthetic at home. With all of these hot new favorites of 2019 your garden and dinner table will be bursting with style and grace - perfect for making a home you enjoy with your family and guests.

Shimmer Hybrid Tomatoes

Your first impression of these charming cherry-sized tomatoes is their “shimmering” gold, green, and red pattern in a charming almond shape that makes each angle a unique look. The second impression, though, comes as you take your first bite. Bursting with summer flavor, each tomato is tasty enough you’ll want them all for yourself - but with impressive yields, you might need to host a few parties or give them to your neighbors just to keep up. Style doesn’t have to come at the cost of quality, and you’ll love using these beautiful tomatoes in everything this summer. These tomatoes can be started from seed indoors for a head start on the season, or brought home as a starter ready to go into your soil right away. As an indeterminate they need a bit of training to keep them under control, but these tomatoes get right down to business growing in just one summer, with a quick-growing season that gives you mature tomatoes ready to eat with plenty of time to enjoy the harvest. Simply plant in a sunny spot with lots of room, stake forsupport as they grow, and enjoy their stylish harvest.

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Candy Cane Peppers

Another edible bringing fun color to your garden and kitchen for an added boost of style, the Candy Cane peppers not only look charming on your dinner plate with striped variegation, but even their foliage fills your garden with gorgeous stripes. With these peppers there’s no compromise on beauty or flavor. These peppers are so sweet that you can almost taste the sunshine they grew in when you take a bite. Store-bought peppers simply won’t make the cut anymore after you’ve grown these right at home!

This delicious herb not only brings delicious flavor to all of your favorite dishes, it’s simple gorgeous to grow. You’ll be easily charmed by its green and indigo foliage that looks just as good in your garden as it does as an embellishing herb on your dinner. While you’ll want to prevent it from flowering as long as possible to enjoy the best flavors possible, it’s still lovely to look at with vibrant purple blooms when it goes to seed.

Of course, the distinct color of African Blue Basil isn’t the only thing that sets it apart. The leaves are fragrant - perfect for pestos - and boast a more intense flavor with hints of camphor. The foliage is pretty enough by itself when the basil isn’t in bloom, and you might want to delay flowers by pinching off the spikes for a while to get the most of your flavorful herb. Although the flavor changes once your basil blooms, the brilliant purple flower spikes are gorgeous enough to make up for it - and are extremely popular with our local pollinators.

You can plant this basil directly into your garden, or choose a container in a sunny spot. If you plant it in something portable, you might even be able to bring it indoors over the winter if you simply can’t get enough of it. We don’t recommend growing from seed right at home, as it can be quite tricky, but you can pick up a starter to plant that will be thriving in no time!

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Start indoors from seed, or buy a starter plant and plant directly into your garden in warm weather. These peppers grow fruit pretty quickly, and it helps that you can nibble on unripe peppers when you simply can’t wait for a taste of your garden flavors. Once the peppers change from their pretty green stripes to a bright red you know that they’re ripe. However, they’re actually deliciously crisp and sweet at any stage of maturity, so pick whenever!

Solar Flare Tomato

This beefsteak heirloom tomato is bursting with color and flavor. Meaty and large, they are the perfect garden tomato for slicing, but look just as good growing on the plant where they look like molden drops of lava with gold and red veining. Not only will you appreciate having these tomatoes at home to dress up your burgers and sandwiches, but you’ll also love how easy they are to take care of in the garden.

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Moon and Stars Watermelon

Is there any other garden favorite that captures the joy of summer like watermelons? The Moon and Stars heirloom watermelon is the variety to choose for something pretty in the garden that is downright impressive at full grown.

Despite being an indeterminate and needing a little bit of staking, these surprisingly large tomatoes will grow in massive quantities, mature quickly, and are even resistant to scabbing and some pests. While many gardeners are used to accepting a short and limited harvest from their plumpest and beefiest tomatoes, these heirlooms don’t need nearly as much compromise.

Grow in a sunny spot with good drainage and give your plants the room they need to thrive. If you’re starting from seed, give yourself a head start on the season by seeding indoors, or purchase a starter to transplant later. Once you see the many tomatoes maturing on the vine of these plants, you’ll know you need to host a barbeque to eat them all (and show them off)!

The intense, green rind of this melon is decorated with tiny, yellow spots like stars on a night sky - and while they take some time to reach maturity, like any other melon, they’re still gorgeous to look at as they grow. Even the foliage extends the “night sky” image of your melon with similar deep green and yellow speckles.

Once they are ripe and ready to eat, you’ll enjoy a crisp, fresh texture and flavor with bright, ruby red flesh, and possible a lot of harvesting yield, with melons reaching 25 to 30lb. Deliciously sweet and stunningly beautiful, these watermelons have earned themselves a reputation over the past years and are being embraced as one of this year’s hottest trends.

Sow directly into your garden or seed indoors before the first frost and transplant, and be patient waiting for your delicious watermelon to mature. With such a long maturation and large fruit, it can be hard to know when they’re ready to enjoy. To know when it’s ripe and ready, look for the tendril closest to the melon dying, a split developing in the stem of the melon, or the bottom of the melon turning yellow. You’ll know it’s ripe if it sounds hollow when you knock on it gently. Once your watermelon is ready, they’re perfect for entertaining with more than enough to go around between guests.

We love the new garden trends of this year for their ability to brighten our gardens and homes all season. Not only are they delicious new variations of all of our favorite garden flavors, but they look beautiful in the garden and on our plates. With bountiful harvests and a garden aesthetic like this, it’ll be impossible not to invite friends over to enjoy the best of your home and garden.

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In 2019, we’re focusing on enjoying our homes and out-door spaces more. After all, why not put in the effort to make our own homes the type of escape and oasis that we want? Look no further than the hottest looks, styles, and trends of 2019 for how to make your home and property into something that you can and want to use more often and with your favorite people.

Sometimes what you need to enjoy your outdoor space a bit more is a style that is easier to maintain so that you can spend less time picking weeds, mowing, and maintaining, and more time relaxing and enjoying your property.

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Planting native plants is the clear solution here, and it comes with so many benefits. While there are many options for exotic annuals and plants from far away climates that are sure to make a statement in your yard, they often come with difficult and time-consuming care regimens that take away some of your time to actually enjoy them. Native plants are the secret to a gorgeous home that doesn’t compromise on appearance, but offers tough plants that don’t need to be babied.

These are plants that are accustomed to growing in our climate, so they’re more resilient to our challenging weather - from droughts and heat to difficult frozen winters. As an added bonus, they are also very environmentally friendly, so you’ll feel better about using less chemicals and water, and be rewarded by making your yard a hotspot for your favorite local pollinators, like butterflies, bees, and even birds.

To start easy, try introducing a few native plants in your home this year to try it out - consider picking a bed or spot in your garden to plant some local favorites. If you’re ready to embrace native plants and the low-maintenance-yet-gorgeous lifestyle, we have lots of options to fill your yard, or consult with our expert landscapers for advice.

Everyone loves a “staycation”, and they’re only made better when your home and backyard is an oasis that you simply can’t get enough of. Make the most of enjoying your backyard by creating a living space that you can use with your family or for entertaining! The landscaping and construction options for improving your yard can all be designed to cater to you and your needs, just like the design of your home is fit to what you want and use. These projects can range from small to large, and are best fit when you think about what you want to do more of in your backyard. Do you want to go simple and rustic with a firepit for friends and

family to gather around into the late night? Do you want an outdoor kitchen to bring your cooking closer to your garden and the lovely summer weather? Maybe a patio area for entertaining outfitted with elements tying together your indoor and outdoor living style? The options are limitless and ready to be tailored to fit your budget and lifestyle. Our expert landscaping team is always ready to help make your backyard dreams a reality with stylish and high-quality work to your specifications. Whether you’re unsure of how to make your dreams happen or you have an exact vision, our team of experts is ready to make your dreams a reality!

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This 2019 trend is all about embracing the brightestand most beautiful shades that our gardens have to offer. It’s so much more encouraging to put the effort in for a gorgeous home with vibrant plants offering stunning style and romance all summer. Whether it’s in your containers or garden, there are so many exciting new shades of classics that we’ve come to love, and the statement that they make in your home is just breathtaking. While new varieties of our favorite blooms in staggering new colors is almost expected with every new season, this year we’re excited to see so many new types of foliage and vines starting to make a bold statement, too. With more textures, patterns, styles, and colors there are endless combinations.

The color of the year is a brightly blushing shade of coral that pairs well with so many other colors to make fantastic statement pieces. While you’re picking up your favorite new vibrant colors to make your annual masterpiece in your home, consider picking up something with this hot trendy shade - and combine it with whites and turquoises for a retro pop, rosy reds and pinks for a romantic blush, reds and oranges for a fiery sunset look, or intense indigos and purples for a feminine and mysterious mood.

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Edible Gardens

It’s nice when our gardens are functional as well as beautiful, and truly nothing beats the flavor of summer fruits and veggies straight from your own backyard. While this year doesn’t disappoint when it comes to delicious varieties of our garden favorites, we’re a fan of the new trend embracing foods that are both tasty and attractive in the garden! Whether you have a vegetable garden and love growing your own harvest every year, or keep it simple with a few containers of your summer favorites, having an edible garden is offering more and more for people every year. Growing your own offers better flavor, healthier food, more confidence in what you eat, and a tasty hobby. With our summer varieties, you’ll be tempted to snack as you pick, but don’t worry. You will grow more than enough to have some harvest left over for your dinner table - all without compromising anything about the aesthetic of your home.

The 2019 trends are just like our resolutions - making

the best out of what we have and striving to enjoy the

things around us in our lives. It’s the year of options and

embracing vibrancy, and you can bring that home with

you in whatever little or spectacular ways you want.

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Bringing the Green Inside

Houseplants have enjoyed a massive surge in popularity and we can see why. Bringing something green inside is the best way to boost your home aesthetic and mood all year, even when everything is frozen and dreary outside. While houseplants used to be almost exclusively limited to tropical plants, the new popular interest in this home decor style has opened the door to many more

unique plants that offer new styles and looks for any aesthetic. We still love our glossy and green tropical plants, but there are exciting new plants available that are still easy to care for but have unique shapes, colors, and looks that give our homes a trendy edge. Succulents and air plants have especially skyrocketed in popularity, looking particularly fantastic when paired with chic decoration options, like terrariums and living crafts. Whatever your style or look, there are now plants that you can bring home to enjoy every single day of the year. Having something green inside with you is a nice boost to your mood at home, but is a stunning way to make an aesthetic statement that is perfectly suited to you. Browse our garden center for some ideas and inspiration for the perfect houseplant for you and your home and other home decor trends you can play with by taking home a plant. A low-maintenance living companion is not only a fun accent, but a way to embrace what is uniquely “you” about your home.

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2019 Container Garden Trends by Ted Lare Design + BuildPublished by Ted Lare Design + Build | 2701 Cumming Avenue Cumming, IA 50061

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Images courtesy of Ball Seed Company, Burpee Seeds and Plants,NetPS Plant Finder, PanAmerican Seed, Proven Winners, Rare Seeds,

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