If you only have just three feet or less of a ground area to work with for planting space, you can choose to focus on plants that perhaps grow taller than wider or have more of a mounding effect. There are many upright or mounding annual plants and perennials or shrubs that will fit this description, as do some climbing …
Seeding Vegetables
Our Seed packets are here! … there are very few seeds which are required to be planted as early as late March – and those that are, can wait to be seeded until the 1st week of April. When looking at the seed packets for planting instructions, you would work the weeks backwards from when the last frost is expected …
Getting your Garden Ready for Winter
After a season of enjoying the blooms from your perennial flower garden, late fall is the time to prepare the beds for winter. Putting the garden to bed for the winter is mostly a matter of cleaning up and covering up. As fall progresses and temperatures drop, plants are preparing for dormancy. Stopping the fertilizing of perennials in late summer and …
Tomato Splits
Seeing your big, red, ready to pick tomato with a split in its soft skin often happens after a big rain – right when you are ready to pick it! All season you’ve watched your tomato plants grow and blossom, and have nurtured the plant and small green tomatoes into plump, red juicy ones. And then you notice a long …
Drought Tolerant Plants
In order to beat the heat of summer and have a colorful yard or patio all season long, you’ll need to have plants that are tolerant of the high temperatures of summer as well as being somewhat drought tolerant. The following is a partial list of plants having drought tolerant potential, but you must still remember that all plants will …
Fall Planting Tips
A few fall planting tips from an expert! Fall Planting Tips
Plant of the Year!
Lemon Coral Sedum This is the National Plant of the Year! It’s incredibly easy to grow, has bright lime green textured foliage that looks spiky, but is really quite soft to touch. It will provide bold, fresh colour all season long in your garden or pots. This stunning succulent grows well in the sun or part sun, can tolerate dry …
Wave Petunias
Wave: The original spreading petunia grows low & wide with a height of 4-6 inches and a 3-4 foot spread Shock Wave: this is a well branched, mounded plant with a height of 7-10 inches and flower heads around 1.5 to 2-inch flowers, spreading 2-3 feet wide. The Shockwave has smaller flowers than the rest of the waves. Easy Wave: Grows more …