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'David' garden phlox with L.D. Braithwaite ('AUScrim') David Austen rose. (Photos by Stephen Westcott-Gratton)

Cut flowers, harvested fresh from your garden

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Cimiifuga and Japanese anemone in garden in Beaverton, Ontario. (Photo by Stephen Westcott-Gratton)

Cimicifugas: Superstars of the autumn garden

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Chicago Hardy' figs in Beaverton,- Ontario, in August 2017 (Photos by Stephen Westcott-Gratton)

The joy of growing figs

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Joe Pye w painted lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui) in Beaverton, Ontario, August 2017. (Photos by Stephen Westcott-Gratton).

Super-sized flowers for late summer

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Hydrangea Incrediball (Photos by Stephen Westcott-Gratton)

Bountiful midsummer flowers: Hardy hydrangeas

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Eremurus Romance: four-foot (1.25-m)-tall hybrid with pale salmon-pink flowers that fade to a rich cream colour.

Reach for the top with foxtail lilies

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