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Tips for Choosing the Best Annuals

Tips for Choosing the Best Annuals

Do you walk into a garden center and think, "Where do I even start?" We know the feeling, so we have put together our pro-tips on choosing the best annuals to make your experience enjoyable!
Tips for Planting Roses

Tips for Planting Roses

Finding the best rose and planting it might feel like a daunting task, but with these tips you can choose the right rose for your garden and plant it with confidence.
Top 10 Ways to Celebrate June Outdoors

Top 10 Ways to Celebrate June Outdoors

You can find gardening related holidays seeded all throughout the year, but June is practically exploding with days and ways to have some festive fun!
Tips for Tomato Caging, Staking and Pruning

Tips for Tomato Caging, Staking and Pruning

These tips require very little effort but can have a big effect on the health of your tomato plants and the quality and timing of your harvest.
Grilling with Fresh Herbs

Grilling with Fresh Herbs

Use herbs from your garden to add layers of flavor to grilled foods. A fresh supply of herbs make the tastiest marinades and rubs.
10 Hanging Basket Ideas

10 Hanging Basket Ideas

No matter if you're looking for a new twist or are new to hanging baskets, here are ten tailor-made suggestions to try.
Edible Landscaping: A New Trend in Outdoor Living

Edible Landscaping: A New Trend in Outdoor Living

Adding edible plants, berries and fruits to your traditional garden scheme is a clever way to add beauty as well as reduce your food costs.
Tips for Raised Garden Beds

Tips for Raised Garden Beds

Putting together a raised wooden bed is one of the easiest and most rewarding garden projects.
Top 10 Tips – Caring for Flowering Indoor Plants

Top 10 Tips – Caring for Flowering Indoor Plants

Flowering potted plants are a quick way to add color, freshness and a designer touch to interiors.
TIP: Creating Attractive Combination Containers

TIP: Creating Attractive Combination Containers

It's SPRING! Which means you can start filling your landscape, deck and balcony with colorful combos. Here are a few tips to make the most attractive combination containers.
Get to Know Miniature Roses for Mother’s Day

Get to Know Miniature Roses for Mother’s Day

Gifting a mini rose is a symbol of your love for Mom and other important women role models in your life!
Unconventional Garden Vessels

Unconventional Garden Vessels

In nature, plants occupy every imaginable niche on the planet. Since almost everything is a potential substrate for plant life, we can have fun with the quirky adaptability of plants by intentionally vegetating re-purposed objects.
Growing Herbs and Vegetables for Pets

Growing Herbs and Vegetables for Pets

Most house pets can enjoy a range of fresh foods as part of their overall diets. Many of the herbs and vegetables among these foods are quite easy to grow in containers.
Top 5 Plants for a Quick Privacy Screen

Top 5 Plants for a Quick Privacy Screen

Yes, you can grow a privacy screen in a reasonable amount of time.
Supportive Garden Structures

Supportive Garden Structures

Beautiful and supportive classic garden structures.
Finding Perfect Companion Plants

Finding Perfect Companion Plants

These tips will have you designing like a pro!
Cool Weather Spring Vegetable Containers

Cool Weather Spring Vegetable Containers

Taste-full style, easy and close at hand.
Top 5 Flowering Spring Perennials

Top 5 Flowering Spring Perennials

Looking for the perfect plant? Here are some options that consistently get high marks for beauty, adaptability and all-around ease of growing.
DIY: Hardscape Essentials

DIY: Hardscape Essentials

Hardscape is not a catchy term for overly difficult gardening sites. Hardscape simply means the hard, durable parts of the landscape…the non-plant elements.
5 Fabulous Annuals to Try this Spring

5 Fabulous Annuals to Try this Spring

Five great annual flower options for gardeners ready to try something new and different.
How-to: Green-up Your Lawn this Spring

How-to: Green-up Your Lawn this Spring

Early spring raking, aeration, and fertilization all help create a healthy lawn that is thick and vigorous, with better pest and disease resistance.
Plant a Family Vegetable Garden

Plant a Family Vegetable Garden

Enjoy some low-stress family time, fresh air and outdoor exercise - along with fresh, tasty food – by growing a family veggie garden.
Know Your Plants – Annual vs. Perennial

Know Your Plants – Annual vs. Perennial

Learn the differences between annual and perennial plants and how to decide which type of plant is best for your gardening needs.
Gardening Tips for Early Spring

Gardening Tips for Early Spring

The basics of “dewinterizing” your landscape to get it ready for spring.
frost map with dates

Frost Map with Dates

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USDA Zone Finder

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