Young Trees Are Little Homies: Protect Them at All Costs
Young trees are newbies to the garden family, and so they need a little extra protection from the elements to stay safe! Here’s how to protect your youngins from a tough winter so they can have a great start in the spring and safely settle…
Cut It or Leave It? What to Prune and What to Leave Standing
For most of us, winter’s a time to fight with our snow blowers, be cold, and pack on a bit of insulation (Christmas cookies, anyone?) For your plants, however, it’s a time to lay low and conserve energy for the explosion of new life ahead…
What’s All the Hype About Hibiscus?
Let the trumpets blare out in celebration of this varied flowering species. With their large trumpet-shaped flowers the size of dinner plates and a wide array of stunning colors, hibiscus adds a warm, vibrant touch to any garden space or patio. You can find perennial,…
OK Bloomer: Snowbird Plants that Need a Winter Vacation Indoors
Gardening is a year-round adventure, especially if you can successfully transition tender plants indoors over the winter and make them feel at home. Before you start knitting those plant cozies, it’s important to learn the how-to of getting your plants acquainted with the indoors. After…
It’s Clean-Up Time! Use This Checklist for the Yard and Garden
It’s fall, baby! Back to school season, harvest season, spooky season—it’s pretty much all the best seasons wrapped up into one. All we want is to wrap ourselves in chunky cardigans and chug pumpkin spice lattés like our life depends on it, but it’s still…
Dees’ Nursery Elementree School, Today’s Lesson: Fall Tree Planting
So you think you can plant trees? Don’t get ahead of yourself, champ. While tree planting certainly isn’t difficult, you can’t just wing it without knowing the basics. With the back-to-school season underway, we figured a little lesson in fall tree planting would be useful…