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Dig into our online garden classroom featuring urban gardening advice, fun projects for kids, and recipes straight from the garden.

Learn to foster a garden that supports your community and local ecology.

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Brown is the New Green?

Brown may be the new green, but what happens after that? Can we really count on future rainy years to save our lawns? Wouldn’t it be better to redesign our city now, with plants that do not need much summer water? Then silver and gold, lime and lavender and burgundy can be the new brown. These are only some of the palette of colorful and thriving plants you can see if you visit Garden for the Environment.

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