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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...

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Winter pots

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....

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Fresh-cut Christmas Tree Selecting & Caring

Selecting & Caring for your Fresh-cut Christmas...

It looks, smells and feels like Christmas in the nursery! Sean, our horticulture guru here at The Gardener’s Center, shares tips about selecting your fresh-cut tree, and how to keep...

Selecting & Caring for your Fresh-cut Christmas Tree

It looks, smells and feels like Christmas in the nursery! Sean, our horticulture guru here at The Gardener’s Center, shares tips about selecting your fresh-cut tree, and how to keep...

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How to Protect Deer from Eating Your Evergreens

Let’s Talk Protecting Your Evergreen Plants Fro...

Three late-blooming native perennials we’re focusing on here are members of the asteraceae—or aster—family. These are all native to a good part of North America, east of the Mississippi River,...

Let’s Talk Protecting Your Evergreen Plants From Deer Browsing

Three late-blooming native perennials we’re focusing on here are members of the asteraceae—or aster—family. These are all native to a good part of North America, east of the Mississippi River,...

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What to Plant (and Not) in the Fall, Zones 6 & 7

Zones 6 & 7: What to Plant (and Not) in the Fall

Three late-blooming native perennials we’re focusing on here are members of the asteraceae—or aster—family. These are all native to a good part of North America, east of the Mississippi River,...

Zones 6 & 7: What to Plant (and Not) in the Fall

Three late-blooming native perennials we’re focusing on here are members of the asteraceae—or aster—family. These are all native to a good part of North America, east of the Mississippi River,...

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Fall is Time to Feed Your Hardy Landscape Plants

Fall is the Time to (Organically) Feed Your Har...

Three late-blooming native perennials we’re focusing on here are members of the asteraceae—or aster—family. These are all native to a good part of North America, east of the Mississippi River,...

Fall is the Time to (Organically) Feed Your Hardy Landscape Plants

Three late-blooming native perennials we’re focusing on here are members of the asteraceae—or aster—family. These are all native to a good part of North America, east of the Mississippi River,...

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Late-blooming Coreopsis

Late-Blooming Native Perennials You'll Want to ...

Three late-blooming native perennials we’re focusing on here are members of the asteraceae—or aster—family. These are all native to a good part of North America, east of the Mississippi River,...

Late-Blooming Native Perennials You'll Want to Add to Your Garden

Three late-blooming native perennials we’re focusing on here are members of the asteraceae—or aster—family. These are all native to a good part of North America, east of the Mississippi River,...

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Why September Thru October is Best Time to Plant Perennials, Shrubs, Trees & Grass Seed

Why September Thru October is Best Time to Plan...

The fall season presents a window of opportunity for gardeners… In fact, according to Sean, our horticulture guru here at The Gardener’s Center, the fall season is, in almost every...

Why September Thru October is Best Time to Plant Perennials, Shrubs, Trees & Grass Seed

The fall season presents a window of opportunity for gardeners… In fact, according to Sean, our horticulture guru here at The Gardener’s Center, the fall season is, in almost every...

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