How to Grow

 

HOW TO GROW BLUEBERRIES

How to Grow Blueberries: Growing blueberry plants is very easy and rewarding. Learn how to grow hardy blueberry plants, how to fertilize blueberry plants and how to care for your ...

HOW TO GROW BLUEBERRIES

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How to Grow

 

How to Grow Giant Pumpkins

How to grow giant pumpkins, products for giant pumpkins sold online. how to grow giant pumpkins.

How to Grow Giant Pumpkins

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How to Make Compost

Setting up the Compost Pile

A compost pile is more than just raking up some leaves. A good mix is to have equal parts of green and brown materials plus enough water to keep it all moist. Use any plant material and leaves in your compost pile as long as they are not diseased.

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Toro Blueberry

A versatile blueberry bush that makes a lovely ornamental plant... as well as producing pounds of delicious, healthy Toro blueberries. Toro Blueberry bushes are known for being heavy producers... you get buckets of berries every year! Even after an extremely cold winter, your Toros will produce tons of sweet berries in mid-July. Fantastic as a border or privacy hedge… the Toro boasts delicate white to hot pink flowers in the spring and fiery red foliage in the fall.

Toro Blueberry

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Dwarf Cavendish Banana Tree

The Dwarf Cavendish Banana Tree brings bananas within reach of any home gardener… no matter where you live! In cold areas, the can easily be grown in containers and moved indoors during the winter. Makes a great looking tropical house plant. The problem with other varieties that grow 20 ft. tall is you couldn't bring them indoors to ripen fruit. The Cavendish is dwarf-sized, only maturing to 8-10 ft. tall...

Dwarf Cavendish Banana Tree

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Silk Tree, Hardy

A cold hardy variety of a tropical favorite! Loved for their graceful, lacy foliage and fluffy, bright pink flowers. This improved, cold hardy species can be grown in zones 5-10. The exotic flowers last May through August and attracts butterflies and…

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Grass - Prairie Dropseed

The Grass 'Prairie Dropseed', Sporobolus heterolepis, is a native American prairie plant. Prairie Dropseed produces a magnificent fountain of fine-textured, emerald green leaves, adding a touch of elegance to any planting. Considered by many to be the most handsome of the prairie grasses, it makes a well-defined and distinctive border when planted 18 to 24 inches apart.

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Plum, Santa Rosa

One of the most widely grown plums! Delicious red skinned plum is sweet and juicy. Self-fruitful.
Plum, Santa Rosa

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Crabapple - Adams

Gorgeous Pink Blooms in Early Spring With its gorgeous spring flowering, ‘Adams’ is a great choice for the smaller home garden since it has a small in stature.   Crabapple - Adams, Malus 'Adams', forms a dense, rounded outline with masses of pink-burgundy buds that open to large, dark pink-burgundy blossoms in early to mid spring, before the leaves appear. Crabapple - Adams

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Cherry Tree - Sweetheart

Superb Cherry with Prolonged Harvest Sweetheart Cherry Tree is a compact tree with ornamental features and outstanding, summer fruit.  These cherry trees would look spectacular lining your driveway, or even just one in your front or side yard would be sure be noticed. Your Sweetheart Cherry Tree will create a spectacle in your yard once friends and neighbors have sampled its delectable fruit. 

Cherry Tree - Sweetheart

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Lilac - Tinkerbelle®

Fragrant Bright Pink Blooms Tinkerbelle® Lilac, Syringa 'Bailbelle' (PP12,294), is one of the Fairytale® Series and has an upright shape with incredible wine red flower buds. They open to single, bright pink blooms, with a spicy fragrance, in late spring. Tinkerbelle lilac is an excellent choice for foundation plantings or as a specimen.

Lilac - Tinkerbelle®

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Astilbe - Visions in Red

Red Plumes Over Bronze Foliage The Astilbe Chinensis Visions in Red PP#119, 'Chinensis Visions', produces large rusty maroon red flowers that are tinted with a faint rosy tone that is ever-changing as the flower plume matures throughout the summer.   The ‘Visions in Red’ plumes offer a striking contrast against the lacy, bronze-green foliage…

Astilbe - Visions in Red

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Verbena - Lanai® Blush White

Verbena Lanai Blush White, Verbena Lanai® Blush White, has bright white flowers with pale yellow centers. Lanaiâ„¢ flowers early and is free flowering from tip to crown. The flowers on this verbena look wonderful and attract butterflies. Verbena is one of those garden essentials that bloom from spring to fall with very little fuss. In frost-free climates it is grown as a perennial…

Verbena - Lanai® Blush White

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Lantana - Bandana® Cherry

Lantana Bandana Cherry, Lantana 'Bandana Cherry' PPAF, displays a beautiful mix of hot pink (red velvet) and yellow flowers. Bandana® Cherry is a well branched plants that has a nice mounding growing habit. Try Lantanas in a hanging basket or in a mixed combo planter. Lantana - Bandana® Cherry

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Coleus - Dipt in Wine

The Coleus Dipt in Wine, 'Coleus hybrid', has large leaves of burgundy red with lighter veins running nearly the entire length. The bright gold at the base of each leaf extends to the petiole (leaf stem). These new, bigger, sun loving varieties have revolutionized contanier gardening. The brilliant colors explode in sunny locations. Coleus - Dipt in Wine

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Begonia - Nonstop® Mocca Yellow

The Begonia Nonstop Mocca Yellow, Begonia x tuberhybrida Begonia Nonstop® Mocca Yellow, adds a sizzle of color to that part shade to shade location in your garden. The large, full, double yellow flowers of Nonstop® Mocca Yellow makes a real statement in your patio planters all summer long. Mocca Nonstop Yellow brings a whole new dimension…

.Begonia - Nonstop® Mocca Yellow

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Double Flowering Plum

Stunning Double Pink Blooms Cover its Branches! A familiar sight across the northeast quarter of the U.S in May is the Double Flowering Plum, a cold-hardy shrub that puts on quite a show with its gorgeous double candy-pink flowers blanketing each branch with blooms. It tends toward a round shape, is a robust grower and will withstand wind and cold winters well… Double Flowering Plum

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Hosta - Halcyon

True Blue in the Shade Gardeners are always looking for two things: 1) shade plants and 2) blue plants. The Halcyon Hosta is made for the shade and is the most interesting frosty ocean-blue color, earning it the 1997 Award of Merit (AGM). It’s a vigorous (but slower) grower with ribbed, spear-shaped foliage that sits

Hosta - Halcyon

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Asparagus - Jersey Giant

The Asparagus Jersey Giant, Asparagus 'Jersey Giant', a spring planted herbaceous root, produces large quantities of quality spears of green Asparagus. The spears can be up to 7 to 9 inches long and they grow profusely on vigorous plants. They are very tasty and meaty. Jersey Giant Asparagus prefers well worked organic soils. This plant matures in early April through mid-May in zones 4, 5, and 6…

Asparagus - Jersey Giant

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Coneflower - Julia

Hardy Coneflower with Orange Flowers Julia is a hardy, compact Coneflower with long-lasting, bright orange blooms.  Place a few of these in your cutting or wildlife garden.  Julia is also lovely in patio containers, or anywhere you need a splash of color. Your Julia is a variety of Coneflower that is exceptional for both its color and form.

  Coneflower - Julia

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Butterflies, Bees and More

Butterfly on Lettuce
Butterflies, Bees and More

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Troybilt Trimmer TB20CS

Easy to start, dependable and versatile

This Troybilt weed trimmer comes with a spring assist pull starter maikng it very easy to start. This is a curved shaft model and accepts line up to .090". It is compatible with other attachments such as edger, tiller, hedge trimmers, and pole saw.

Troybilt Trimmer TB20CS

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Garden Tips

It's easy these days to be blinded by horticultural science and bewildered by the array of new and complicated products on sale for the garden. But look back a few years and use some good old practical know-how and you'll find some amazing money-saving, nifty alternative ways of growing plants and maintaining your garden.

General garden tips

Garden Tips

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Gardening Magazine

 

Even the most seasoned gardeners will have a question about their garden once in a while, and you can bet that beginners will be full of questions. Gardening magazines can help with questions that arise involving nearly every aspect of gardening. Not only will gardening magazines give instructions on…

Gardening Magazine

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Ladyfern - Burgundy Lace

Two Feet of Silvery Lace Athyrium Burgundy Lace, Athyrium niponicum 'Burgundy Lace', is a show stopper fern with its contrasting leaves of silvery green and purple midribs. 'Burgundy Lace' is a great addition of lovely color to a shade garden.  With its graceful fern-like foliage, this plant will add texture to any shaded landscape, and makes a wonderful counterpoint to flowering perennials. This plant grows best in moist, highly organic soil and is very striking when planted in groups, along borders or in containers. 'Burgundy Lace' is a hardy fern that grows best in humus-rich, moist soil but will also adapt to tough conditions. It is tolerant of clay soils, hot summers, and frigid winters. Divide plants in spring. *Silvery Fern Leaves with Purple MidRibs *Tolerant of Cold, Heat, Clay Soils *Full to Part Shade 

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False Cypress - Golden Mop

Evergreen Shrub with Outstanding Color The Golden Mop is a dwarf evergreen shrub with outstanding landscape color. It would work well for foundation plantings in your yard, or in the front of borders. You could use this plant for Bonsai as well. Your Golden Mop is an adorable shrub with an equally adorable name. Called “Golden Mop” for its mop head appearance, this little gem features foliage of a golden yellow hue. The long, thin, bowing stems combined with the fine needled foliage tend to give your Golden Mop a delightfully fuzzy appearance, adding to its charm. The golden yellow color will hold true throughout the seasons so you can enjoy the bright color in your landscape year-round. Golden Mop is a gently-mounded dwarf evergreen. It has no serious insect or disease problems of note, is drought tolerant and forgiving of some salt. It’s considered a low maintenance shrub so you won’t have to fuss with it like some other landscape varieties. For outstanding color in an adorable shrub, the Golden Mop is the choice for you. *Bright Foliage Color *Hardy

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Hydrangea - Oak leaf

Shrub with Outstanding Flowers and Foliage The Oakleaf Hydrangea is a deciduous shrub with large flowers and unique foliage. Plant several near your patio or front door so you don’t miss a moment of this plant’s lovely display. Hydrangeas are always impressive plants for their huge and lasting blooms, but the Oak leaf Hydrangea has the added attraction of foliage that is as interesting as its flower. Each leaf is deeply-lobed and reminiscent in style of the type of leaf Oak trees have. The 8-inch “Oak” leaves are deep green, but turn bronze/purple in fall. In autumn, when the leaf-fall has passed, your Hydrangea’s lovely brown bark will be visible for some additional winter interest. In the summer, you can expect your Oak leaf Hydrangea to develop the stunning flowers that Hydrangeas are known for. The 14-inch panicles of flowers will rival any other flowering plant in your yard as they stand erect on their sturdy stems. The blossoms begin white, but slowly transition to pink as the summer season progresses. You actually get two flower colors on the same plant, and in the same season! Your Oak leaf Hydrangea is one of the few Hydrangeas that is native to the United States. The spectacular bloom and fall display make it an exceptional addition to any yard. In fact, as sensational as its summer bloom is, many feel the autumn leaves are even more eye-catching. It’s simply a remarkable plant with unbelievable color. Plant several today for that head-turning affect in your own landscape. *Unique Foliage*Summer and Fall Color*Hardy

Price: $109.90 Buy Now ---> Hydrangea - Oak leaf

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Azalea - Bollywood

Rhododendron Bollywood Azalea, Rhododendron Bollywood Azalea 'Farrow', offers an exciting show of elegant color and becomes a show stopper in any landscape! Bright, deep pink flowers appear in the spring and the foliage is glossy, silver and dark green variegated. The Bollywood Azalea is a hardy, compact, semi-evergreen that provides season-long color and attracts many butterflies. Good drainage is essential for this plant; water regularly, especially when newly planted. This azalea needs little pruning, but may be trimmed after flowering. It is best to apply a controlled release fertilizer in early spring. In the southern areas choose a location with some shade, and in northern climates Bollywood may need some winter protection. Use this plant in mixed borders, as an accent plant, or in containers. This azalea packs a huge punch of color and style that will brighten your garden! * Excellent in tight spaces* Easy to care for* All season interest

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