Plants and Flowers in November: Fruits and Vegetables in November: Roses Tomatoes Chrysanthemums Beets November Maintenance Tips Fertilizing November is a great time to fertilize deciduous trees and shrubs and cool season grasses to prepare for the upcoming growing season in the spring. An ideal fertilizer to use for this is N-P-K 24-4-12. Pruning The […]
Plants and Flowers in December: Fruits and Vegetables in December: Pansies Sweet Potato Primrose Apples December Maintenance Tips Fertilizing Fertilizing in the winter is a great way to ensure that your plants have plenty of nutrients stored to make it through the winter. Use a winterizer fertilizer on your deciduous trees and shrubs in the […]
Have you ever heard the term ‘variegated plants’? Variegated plants are a category of plants that are significantly different in color than others. They are often multicolored and have foliage markings such as stripes, blotches of color or bordering leaf patterns. Some common plants that have variegated varieties include:
Plants and Flowers in season: Fruits and Vegetables in season: Garden Mums Brown-Eyed Susans Garden Cosmos Pumpkins October Maintenance Tips Fertilizing Fertilizing in October is a great way to help your plants become hardier before temperatures drop in the winter. Fertilizers that are high in nitrogen and low in potassium (like 25-5-5 or 24-4-12) will […]
Are you trying to decide between filling your garden beds with mulch, pine straw, or rock? The bedding you choose can be determined by which plants you are attempting to include, price range, environment, and other factors. Here are some things to consider while making that decision: Mulch Bedding Pine Straw Bedding Rock Bedding
When we talk about pruning a plant, a term that is commonly brought up in the discussion is “deadheading”. This is the process of removing old blooms from the top of the stems of your plant to encourage new blooms to take their place. This could be done by hand or with gardening tools. While this […]
Plants and flowers in season: Fruits and vegetables in season: Coneflower Snapdragons Butterfly Bush Blanket Flower September Maintenance Tips Fertilizing Mid to late September is a great time to fertilize young trees and shrubs to give them one last growth boost to prepare for dormancy in the winter months. 24-4-12 is the recommended fertilizer for […]
Do you have a plant in your front yard that you would prefer to be planted in the backyard? Are you interested in planting a removed and discarded plant from a friend’s or neighbor’s yard into your own garden? This process is called transplanting! And here’s how you do it:
Succulents in gardens are becoming more and more popular in southern landscape designs and for good reason! These types of plants are incredibly low-maintenance and drought-tolerant plants that thrive even when neglected. Succulent plants are different from other plants because they store water in their stems and in their leaves. This is what makes it possible […]
Did you know that some of your favorite plants could possibly come in a dwarf variety? These varieties have a maximum height of 4 – 5 ft, and they only grow about half a foot a year. Dwarf varieties for plants allow you to have a much more low-maintenance, and compacted version of your favorite plants […]
