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Table of Contents

From the Editor 3

Garden Gate Online 6

Reader Tips 8

Plan a Garden with Nonstop Color 12

Add Energy to Your Summer Garden 14

Dark, Dramatic Plants for a Midnight Garden 22

Troubleshoot Your Tomatoes 48

Wondering why your tomatoes have spots, splits or curled leaves? Find out here!

Create a Tropical Look Anywhere 62

If you’d like to replicate the exotic feel of a tropical garden in a temperate climate, try these design tips and plants.

A Drought-Tolerant Gathering Spot 68

5 Tips for Your Summer To-Do List 72

Q&A 76

Beggartick 77

Garden Essentials 78

Embrace outdoor living.

Dainty Blooms for Hot Spots 80

Finishing Touches 82

Terrified of Topping Flowers 83


Gardening is our passion

Flowers bursting with color. Fragrance floating along the breeze. Fruit ripening. Bees pollinating. These garden pleasures tell only half of the story. Boots discarded at the door, dirtied shovels hung in the shed and leaves thrown into the compost tell the rest. We know what goes on behind the scenes to make a great garden. From a yard sprawling with dazzling perennials to a single violet on a windowsill, gardens and gardeners of all kinds inspire us.

Connect with Garden Gate

Like a homegrown bounty passed across the neighbor's fence, Garden Gate magazine gathers and shares wisdom that can help any thumb turn green. Here's how you can connect with us and grow:

  • Garden Gate magazine is a quarterly publication packed with tips, inspirational gardens, expert advice and quality gardening information delivered right to your door.
  • Garden Gate Notes, our free weekly newsletter, gives you seasonal information right to your inbox and takes the guesswork out of gardening tasks to help you know what to know when.
  • Our social media accounts, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, help you stay up-to-date with current gardening information, give a behind-the-scenes peek at our production process and have sweet giveaways for you to win. Follow us @GardenGateMagazine.
  • On our Pinterest page, Garden Gate Magazine, you can scour endless gardening ideas and tips and save your favorites for later.
  • Garden Gate Magazine YouTube channel has lots of instructional videos, simple how-to's and charming stories of gardeners just like you.
  • Garden Gate Seminars and Garden Gate University deepen your understanding of your favorite topic and include online instruction from gardening experts.
  • Our special interest books mean you can take the best gardening information with you wherever you go!

Flip or scroll through pages of phenomenal photography, helpful illustrations and practical advice, but don't just let it take your breath away. When you close the cover of our magazine or exit one of our online resources, slip on your garden gloves, grab your trowel and walk into your garden geared with the freshest techniques, design ideas and plant information.

Head for the soil. Let's garden together.


Magazine Staff

Editorial Department

Kristin Beane Sullivan
Executive Editor
Sherri Ribbey
Senior Editor

Art Department

Eric Flynn
Executive Art Director
Jack Coyier
Multimedia Producer
Katie Meyer
Digital Production Specialist

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