Outdoor Plants & Growing

Preparing Vegetable Garden Beds for Winter and Next Spring

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...

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Expert pruning tips for your perennial hydrangea paniculata

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...

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Pro-tips for enjoying a living Christmas tree for years to come.

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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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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Conifer plant in a container on a brisk winter day

Keeping Your Hardy Plants in Containers Over th...

If you have plants that live in pots all year long, including through the winter, do you know what to do to keep them happy and healthy?

Keeping Your Hardy Plants in Containers Over the Winter

If you have plants that live in pots all year long, including through the winter, do you know what to do to keep them happy and healthy?

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