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Your Vegetable Garden in October

Read about how to help your raised bed or in-ground vegetable garden in October: enriching soil, extending harvest, cover crops and more.

Perennial Gardens: Fall Cleanup?

October is a great month for putting new perennials in the garden, editing out the overly-enthusiastic plants, and improving the soil with compost.

Plant a Pumpkin

Create a living fall centerpiece or gift by planting succulents into a small pumpkin. We give you instructions and tips for success.

Bulbs, Bunnies and Bambi

Critters digging up your bulbs? Did something cut off your tulip flowers, or are the bunnies and deer eating them? We have answers.

Be In The Know About Fall Planting

When shopping for plants in the fall, use a list of your goals as a guide. Do you need natives, ground cover, perennials or shrubs for birds?

Can I Prune or Cut Back This Plant Now?

Wondering if you can cut your shrubs and trees back in the fall? It depends on how much you want to trim. Your pruning questions answered.

Fall Hydrangea Care

Your questions about removing brown hydrangea flowers, cutting hydrangeas back, pruning panicle hydrangeas, how to help hydrangea shrubs now.

End of Summer in the Flower Garden

We answer customers' questions about brown Hydrangea flowers, fall annuals, collecting flower seeds, and unopened Rose of Sharon buds.

Creating Outdoor Spaces for Respite

Here are 7 ideas for easily making outdoor rooms for reading, mediation, writing, art or other creative activities. Restoration gardens!

Q & A From the August Happy Hour

We answer questions about transplanting Hydrangeas, pruning butterfly bush, and renovation of red twig dogwood and more.

Backyard Fun With Kids and Plants

Your garden and backyard are filled with materials for creative projects that children and adults enjoy. Use these ideas for outdoor activities.

Dry Gardens Q & A

Our customers ask about their drying lawns, wilted shrubs, brown hydrangea flowers, and how they can help their plants recover from drought.

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