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Tree Guide: a great guide to help you decide what to plant

Tree Guide: a great guide to help you decide what to plant

16 Invasive Species Sold at Garden Centers You Should Never Buy

These 16 invasive species of plants are commonly sold at garden centers - beware of them and DO NOT buy them from your garden store!

Top 10 Plants You Can't Kill

Tough as nails, but they're pretty, too. Turn your black thumb into a green thumb with our picks for the top 10 plants you can't kill.

13 Trees You Should Never Plant In Your Yard

13 Trees You Should Never Plant In Your Yard For most people, the end of summer and approach of autumn means cooler temperatures, harvest time for crops, a

10 Best Plants for Container Gardening

Container gardening continues to be hot. Homeowners like that containers are easy to maintain. Here are 11 of the best plants for container gardening.

DIY Holiday Bird Feeder

One of my favorite things to do on a lazy Saturday afternoon is to sit by the window with a cup of tea and watch the birds. Recently, my oldest daughter helped me make these festive pine cone bird feeders to encourage our feathered friends to visit more often. And because it’s the holiday season, we adorned our bird fe

Green shoots: how veganism is changing gardening

Giving up animal products this year? If so, you might want to rethink how you garden

10 Mistakes You Make Buying Plants

Plant and Grow Strawberry Plugs

Jane Moore. Planting for Butterflies: The Grower's Guide to Creating a Flutter.

Butterflies are brilliant pollinators and add vibrancy and color to the garden. A summer's day wouldn't be the same without the gentle fluttering of delicate wings. They connect us with living and breathing nature and are an essential part of a dynamic ecosystem. However, in the past forty years, these insects, which w

These L.A. Plant Shops and Nurseries Will Help You Grow a Dreamy Home Jungle

looking up at leaves. See the fruit?

Ficus dammaropsis in my garden - looking up at leaves. See the fruit?

More Than Just Pretty Plants …

Orchid? More like taking care of Y’Orchid…😎<br>Proper Orchid care seems to be a bit of a controversial topic in the plant community because there is so many different ways to keep those beauties nice and healthy.<br>To avoid over watering most people place ice cubes on top of the soil, so that the melted ice provides just enough water. Instead of watering like usual, we’ve decided to test this method out!<br>How do you keep your orchid alive?

How to Choose Healthy Nursery Plants

The good new is, if you must buy nursery plants, the options for finding healthy, regionally appropriate, and organic garden seedlings are growing.

How to: Selecting healthy nursery plants

If your customer’s landscape is the canvas you are working on, then the plants you choose to install can be considered your medium. Just like any good artist chooses quality paints or other art supplies, it’s important for you to select quality nursery plants that will be more likely to last the lifetime of the […]

Learn to read a nursery plant tag

FALLBROOK - Shopping for new plants for a home can be an exciting undertaking. Nurseries and garden centers are often home to dozens of types of plant species that come in various colors, leaf variations and sizes. Such variety can make choosing plants more fun while also making the process of buying plants a bit complicated, especially for novices...

How To Choose Plants Wisely at the Nursery

Every once in a while I can't help buying a sad, lonely plant that I think I can rehabilitate, especially if I see the magic word 'sale'. But plants—and seedlings especially—are not like a sad little puppy

Organic Growers See Healthier Plants, Increased Yields with Biologicals

“Many people think of biologicals as biocontrol products with biocidal activity that destroys life like a fungicide or herbicide would,” Aaron Waltz, Ph.D., director of field trials and nutrition for Concentric, a producer of OMRI-listed biological products, said. “But there are biologicals that do a number of other things, such as stimulating the rhizosphere and promoting nutrient efficiency, utilization and solubilization activity.”

Volunteers gather seagrass to grow in a nursery and then plant in spots lacking seagrass.

Excess seagrass shouldn't go to waste, according to these volunteers. Not when there are areas of the Indian River Lagoon that need it.