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Recent Blogs
Stop Hand Digging in Your Garden (And Use This Bulb Auger Instead)
Plant all your bulbs in the fall and spring (along with saving your back, shoulders, and wrists from dig...
Iris (Iridaceae): A Gardener’s Guide and Plant Profile
Learn all about Iris (Iridaceae) in this gardener's guide of these beautiful perennials, including plant...
Coneflowers (Echinacea): A Gardener’s Guide and Plant Profile
Learn all about Coneflowers (Echinacea)Â in this gardener's guide of these beautiful perennials, includin...
Blanket Flower: A Gardener’s Guide and Plant Profile
Learn all about the perennial species of Blanket Flower in this gardener's guide of this beautiful plant...
Top 10 Summer-Blooming Perennials For Long-Lasting Garden Color
Enjoy flowers for months with the best summer-blooming perennials! Learn about 10 low maintenance, beautiful summer-blooming perennials in this post.
Tulips: A Gardener’s Guide and Plant Profile
Learn all about Tulip flowers in this gardener's guide.
Tulips are one of the most popular flowers and ...
Best Flowering Roses For Your Spring Garden (And How To Pick The Right One)
Learn how to choose the best type of flowering rose for your garden this spring based on seven different modern rose options.
Rose...
Primrose: A Gardener’s Guide and Plant Profile
If you want a variety of color in your early spring blooming garden, look no further than primroses.
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Best Pruning Tools: Prune Confidently With This List
Learn about the seven best pruning tools you should own, tips for correct tool use, and our favorite too...
Poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima): A Gardener’s Guide and Plant Profile
Learn all about Poinsettias (Euphorbia pulcherrima) in this gardener's guide of these beautiful, indoor ...
Chrysanthemums: A Gardener’s Guide and Plant Profile
Learn all about Chrysanthemums in this gardener's guide of these beautiful, fall bloomers, inclu...
Top Fall Garden Tasks Guaranteed To Prepare Your Garden For Spring!
Prepare your garden for the upcoming winter and spring months with the most important fall garden tasks!...
Best Loppers for Your Pruning Needs
Learn which bypass loppers are the best loppers for your pruning tasks any time of year, including Fiska...
Lavender: A Gardener’s Guide and Plant Profile
Learn all about your beautiful, summer-blooming lavender plants in this gardener's guide, including plan...
Best Pruning Shears for Any Gardener! The Must-Have Garden Tool!
When you're a beginning gardener, there are so many tools, products, and garden supplies to choose fro...
Poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima): A Gardener’s Guide and Plant Profile
Learn all about Poinsettias (Euphorbia pulcherrima) in this gardener's guide of these beautiful, indoor ...
Dianthus: A Gardener’s Guide and Plant Profile
Perfect for containers, borders, and baskets, Dianthus will add pops of color to any garden. Learn about...
Chrysanthemums: A Gardener’s Guide and Plant Profile
Learn all about Chrysanthemums in this gardener's guide of these beautiful, fall bloomers, inclu...
Lavender: A Gardener’s Guide and Plant Profile
Learn all about your beautiful, summer-blooming lavender plants in this gardener's guide, including plan...
Sunflowers: A Gardener’s Guide and Plant Profile
Learn all about Sunflowers in this gardener's guide of these beautiful summer flowers, including plant c...
Shasta Daisy: A Gardener’s Guide and Plant Profile
Learn all about your beautiful, summer-blooming Shasta daisy plants in this gardener's guide.
A...
Crocosmia: A Gardener’s Guide and Plant Profile
Perfect for borders and edges, learn all about the beautiful, showy crocosmia plant in this gardener's g...
Fuchsia Hanging Basket: A Gardeners’ Guide and Plant Profile
When you think of the Fuchsia, do you picture beautiful, hanging baskets full of vivid colors and striki...
Calla Lily: A Gardener’s Guide and Plant Profile
There are not too many plants out there with such an interesting history full of name changes, origin st...
Clover: Gardener’s Guide and Plant Profile
Clover is an amazing plant.
Beloved by pollinators, helpful to the soil, beneficial cover cro...
Daffodils: A Gardener’s Guide and Plant Profile
The daffodils are coming!
As one of the first flowers to pop out of the ground, they signal the beginni...
Roses: A Gardener’s Guide and Plant Profile
Roses.
Everyone loves roses.
What other plant can you think of that is as symbolic to the month of F...
Hellebore: A Gardener’s Guide and Plant Profile
Learn all about Hellebores in this gardener's guide of these beautiful perennials, including plant care,...
How To Attract Pollinators To Your Garden Like A Boss!
Attracting pollinators to your garden can be simple if you know how. Learn steps and strategies for attr...
3 Simple Things Gardeners Should Consider Before Planting A Vegetable Garden: Garden Basics Part 1
Have you ever set up your garden or grown your own food before?
Tomatoes? Carrots? Potatoes? Lettuce? Green Onions? Radishes? Are you,...
Calla Lily: A Gardener’s Guide and Plant Profile
There are not too many plants out there with such an interesting history full of name changes, origin st...
How To Build Your Very First Raised Garden Bed in Time For Spring Planting!
Learn How to Build Your Own Raised Garden Beds Before Spring!
Want to know a secret?
Raised bed gardening is the solution...
Top 5 Spring Garden Tasks You Should Start Right Now!
Learn about the most important spring gardening tasks to begin now.
Spring.
The time when flowers begi...
Clover: Gardener’s Guide and Plant Profile
Clover is an amazing plant.
Beloved by pollinators, helpful to the soil, beneficial cover cro...
Daffodils: A Gardener’s Guide and Plant Profile
The daffodils are coming!
As one of the first flowers to pop out of the ground, they signal the beginni...
5 Natural Pest Remedies for Your Garden
Learn natural, earth-friendly ways to eliminate garden pests that wreak havoc in your yard or garden.
...
How to Strategize and Manage Garden Pests Like a Pro
Learn how to create a strategy to eliminate unwanted moles, slugs, weeds, or any other garden pe...
Top 7 Reasons Mulching Your Garden is Beneficial
Why you should be mulching now to improve the health of your garden.
You are trying to decide...
Roses: A Gardener’s Guide and Plant Profile
Roses.
Everyone loves roses.
What other plant can you think of that is as symbolic to the month of F...
Inspiration Emerges at the Tacoma Home and Garden Show
What inspires you to make improvements to your home or garden? Do you need visual examples or do you prefer reading research-based prod...
How To Attract Pollinators To Your Garden Like A Boss!
Attracting pollinators to your garden can be simple if you know how. Learn steps and strategies for attr...
Fuchsia Hanging Basket: A Gardeners’ Guide and Plant Profile
When you think of the Fuchsia, do you picture beautiful, hanging baskets full of vivid colors and striki...
9 Fruits and Vegetables To Plant Right Now For A Summer Harvest! (Garden Basics Part 2)
It's Spring and that means the flowers are popping, the pollen is flying, and the birds are chirping. Your garden is rejoicing to the t...
3 Simple Things Gardeners Should Consider Before Planting A Vegetable Garden: Garden Basics Part 1
Have you ever set up your garden or grown your own food before?
Tomatoes? Carrots? Potatoes? Lettuce? Green Onions? Radishes? Are you,...
Calla Lily: A Gardener’s Guide and Plant Profile
There are not too many plants out there with such an interesting history full of name changes, origin st...
Clover: Gardener’s Guide and Plant Profile
Clover is an amazing plant.
Beloved by pollinators, helpful to the soil, beneficial cover cro...
5 Natural Pest Remedies for Your Garden
Learn natural, earth-friendly ways to eliminate garden pests that wreak havoc in your yard or garden.
...
How to Strategize and Manage Garden Pests Like a Pro
Learn how to create a strategy to eliminate unwanted moles, slugs, weeds, or any other garden pe...
Roses: A Gardener’s Guide and Plant Profile
Roses.
Everyone loves roses.
What other plant can you think of that is as symbolic to the month of F...
Winter Pruning: How to Best Prune Your Garden This Winter (Yes, It Can Be Done!)
Some people might have you told you that you aren't supposed to prune during the winter.
Believe it o...
