Outdoor Plants & Growing

Nepeta may have a tendency to flop over, and if that’s an issue for you or something you want to avoid, you’ll want to know more about these newer, more compact varieties that will behave better in your garden.

Our garden guru, Sean, shares his tried-and-true rules for successfully growing tomatoes in containers. Follow these and he promises summer-long harvests!

Interested in a super popular, ornamental perennial? Sean, our horticulture expert, is also a fan of catmints, (botanical name is Nepeta), not to be confused with catnip, although they are related. Why are catmints so popular? Well, they check a lot of boxes for gardeners.

We sell A LOT of summer annuals here at Gardener’s. In fact, we sell more annuals than we do perennials, shrubs and houseplants COMBINED every year. They are definitely one of our specialties and we’d like to share some thoughts, tips and pointers regarding the summer-annuals ritual that we all love so much.

They’re beguiling. They’re bewitching. They’re begonias and they’re Sean’s favorite annual. Sean, our horticulture guru here at The Gardener’s Center, points out some key reasons why they make great additions to gardens and containers, no matter your light conditions. Watch the video and see if they’re not going to be your fave, too!

You’re going to love peonies! First, they are easy to grow. Second, you’ll be enjoying them for a long time… They can live in your garden for a hundred years!

You want to enjoy beautiful plants in your pots, hanging baskets and window boxes. But it’s not as simple as getting a container, putting soil in it, putting plants in it — not if you want them to remain healthy and as beautiful as they can be.

You’re simply not using this plant enough. Maybe it has a bad press agent, but Sean, our horticulture guru here at The Gardener’s Center, says Phlox subulata, otherwise known as creeping phlox, has a lot of good things going for it and it isn’t being used nearly enough.

Every year in the spring we start getting tons of inquiries regarding everyone’s favorite hydrangea, the hydrangea macrophylla, also known as mophead hydrangeas or big leaf hydrangeas. And most of those questions and inquiries are about pruning this specific type of hydrangea, because everybody loves to prune their mophead hydrangeas.

Sean, our horticulture guru here at The Gardener’s Center, says, “Stop! Back away from your pruners!”

First to bloom in spring, Hellebores are shade-flowering perennials that grow in hardiness zones 5-8. And they can live 30+ years under the right conditions. Sean’s got all of the deets…