Hydrangea Problems

The end of June is often a Good News/Bad News time for Hydrangeas. On the one hand, many varieties of this summer flowering shrub have come into beautiful bloom. On the other hand, it’s the time of year when we might notice that our plants have problems. Here’s a list of a few common Hydrangea…

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Plants for Shade Gardens – You Need Ferns!

Got shade? You need ferns. These lovely, low-maintenance plants add cooling colors and textures to a shade garden. Ferns combine well with other common shade plants such as Hosta and Tiarella (aka foam flower) and there is a fern for every garden. Here are some of our favorites. Lady Fern (Athyrium felix-femina) is a wonderful…

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Instant Garden Improvement

Are there places in your garden that could use more color? Sometimes our customers say that they like their landscape but that the gardens are “missing something.” Others express the need for bright colors, but say that there isn’t much space left for planting or enough sun for most annuals or perennials. For all of…

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Male & Female Plants

Are your smoke trees smoke-free? Are your hollies not berry berried? It’s possible that you need “the opposite sex” in your garden. Smoke trees and holly are two of the plants that are dioecious. This means that there are separate male and female plants and that in order to produce fruit you will need both…

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Time to Plant!

This video was made by John Sullivan, with a song by Andrew Rappo, made for PlantSomethingMA with homegrown talent from Cape Cod.

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