GARDEN GUIDE
Our garden notes are here to help you feel more confident as the season unfolds.
You’ll find timely tips, simple explanations, and practical guidance based on what’s happening in the garden right now. Nothing overwhelming—just steady support you can come back to, season after season.
Garden Journal
Houseplants With Fascinating Foliage
Joy, our houseplant guru, wants you to know about some unique plants and special varieties that are giving her all the feels. What’s so special about these? She loves their...
Houseplants With Fascinating Foliage
Joy, our houseplant guru, wants you to know about some unique plants and special varieties that are giving her all the feels. What’s so special about these? She loves their...
Identifying and Treating Houseplant Pests
Joy, our houseplant guru here at The Gardener’s Center, has seen her fair share of houseplant pests! She has all the deets on three common little buggers that will wreak...
Identifying and Treating Houseplant Pests
Joy, our houseplant guru here at The Gardener’s Center, has seen her fair share of houseplant pests! She has all the deets on three common little buggers that will wreak...
Tips For Keeping Your Houseplants Happy in the ...
During colder months, your houseplants have to live inside and hibernate for the winter just like the rest of us. Joy, our houseplant guru here at The Gardener’s Center, tells...
Tips For Keeping Your Houseplants Happy in the Winter
During colder months, your houseplants have to live inside and hibernate for the winter just like the rest of us. Joy, our houseplant guru here at The Gardener’s Center, tells...
All About the Popular Alocasia
Joy introduces us to alocasias, an increasingly-popular houseplant. Also known as Elephant Ear, many gardeners recognize the big, green, arrowhead-shaped leaves on this tropical plant that typically lives outside in...
All About the Popular Alocasia
Joy introduces us to alocasias, an increasingly-popular houseplant. Also known as Elephant Ear, many gardeners recognize the big, green, arrowhead-shaped leaves on this tropical plant that typically lives outside in...
Preparing Your Vegetable Garden Beds for Winter...
It’s mid-November and finally time to say goodbye to vegetable and produce production from our zone 7a gardens. And just as you prepped your garden bed to give your plants...
Preparing Your Vegetable Garden Beds for Winter and Next Spring
It’s mid-November and finally time to say goodbye to vegetable and produce production from our zone 7a gardens. And just as you prepped your garden bed to give your plants...
Thanksgiving Time is Pruning Time for Your Hydr...
Sean’s observation is that people have a tendency to NOT touch these in the fall, right when they should. Sean says NOW is the time to prune them. Why? Unlike...
Thanksgiving Time is Pruning Time for Your Hydrangea Paniculata
Sean’s observation is that people have a tendency to NOT touch these in the fall, right when they should. Sean says NOW is the time to prune them. Why? Unlike...
Tips for Enjoying Your Living Christmas Tree
A living Christmas tree is one that still has the roots attached to it, and may be in a pot or a burlap sack. As Sean, our horticulture guru here...
Tips for Enjoying Your Living Christmas Tree
A living Christmas tree is one that still has the roots attached to it, and may be in a pot or a burlap sack. As Sean, our horticulture guru here...
Keeping Your Containers “Happy and Healthy” Ove...
Sean, the horticulture guru at The Gardener's Center in Darien, CT, talks about which pots can take the winter elements and which pots need to be brought in or protected....
Keeping Your Containers “Happy and Healthy” Over the Winter
Sean, the horticulture guru at The Gardener's Center in Darien, CT, talks about which pots can take the winter elements and which pots need to be brought in or protected....