In a garden, the soil is the thread that binds everything together. But how do you prepare your garden soil for the following year? This blog will show you how to prepare your soil for a prosperous year ahead using resources like amendments, compost, and fertilizer!   Add Organic Matter to Your Soil  Taking care of your garden soil in the fall, just before winter sets in, will result in healthier plants; this begins with adding organic amendments to your soil. Adding organic matter to soil enhances the soil’s ability to store vital nutrients and fight toxic substances. There are sev ..read more

Learn how to grow philodendrons as houseplants so you can bring the beauty of the rainforest to your home.    When it comes to popular houseplants, philodendrons are topping the charts! These tropical beauties are glossy, lush, and so easy to grow. With so many spectacular cultivars to choose from, you can curate an impressive plant collection of different philodendrons with unique colors, sizes, and growth habits. Learn how to grow philodendrons as houseplants so you can bring the beauty of the rainforest to your home in Pennsylvania.    How Do You Grow Healthy Philodendro ..read more

Autumn is a great time to plant new landscape plants because the soil is cool and comfortable, so seize the moment and update your landscape today!   It’s hard to feel sad about our summer annuals fading when all the trees, shrubs, and landscape plants take on such spectacular fall colors! We have a few particular favorites that always deliver gorgeous fall foliage to brighten the scenery.    Our Favorite Landscape Plants with Vibrant Fall Foliage Transform your fall landscape with radiant red, fiery orange, sunny gold, and rich plum foliage plants. These seven trees, shrubs, an ..read more

Winter is looming, and you need to get your grass prepped before the snow falls. Step one: rake those leaves!   While it’s not always the most exciting undertaking, finishing your fall lawn care tasks is oh-so-satisfying. If you can take an afternoon to get through these steps, you’ll ensure your grass will look lush and green next spring!    Make Time This Fall to Complete These Necessary Lawn Care Tasks Go through these eight fall lawn care steps, and you’ll see a noticeable difference in the health and vigor of your turf grass next year.    Stop Mowing by Late Octob ..read more

Spring, summer, fall, and winter—these shrubs are stone-cold stunners throughout the whole year!   Colorful shrubs add so much aesthetic appeal to the landscape in spring and summer, but some varieties leave much to be desired in the fall and winter months. A winter landscape devoid of color is a real buzzkill! Ensure your landscape is never lacking that “wow factor” by planting these sensational shrubs for year-round color and visual impact.      Endless Splendor: The Best Shrubs for All-Season Interest Spring, summer, fall, and winter—these shrubs are stone-cold stun ..read more

Taking the proper steps to winterize your beds will help protect your tender perennials and keep things clean so that they’re ready for planting in early spring!   Raised garden beds are a super popular method for growing vegetables in Pennsylvania, as well as perennials, annuals, and other gorgeous plants. You’re in control of the soil that goes in, so you can be sure it’s loose and nutrient-rich with terrific moisture retention. The soil also tends to thaw faster in spring than soil in the ground so that you can jump into the gardening season even sooner. However, if you don’t properly ..read more

While most flowering perennials need plenty of sunshine to stay bright and blooming, these hardy plants are perfectly content in the cool shaded areas of your backyard.    Why limit yourself to deciding between a leafy, shady tree canopy and a big, blooming garden when you can have it all? There are lots of beautiful flowering perennials that thrive in the shade. Add them to your landscape to enjoy all the benefits of a shaded, comfortable yard with a colorful blooming garden.    Brighten Up Your Garden with These Shade-Loving Perennials While most flowering perennials need ..read more

Don’t say goodbye to your beautiful tropical annuals like begonias and caladiums once the summer is over. You can keep them as houseplants through winter and continue to enjoy their beauty for many more years!   Many of our houseplants can benefit from much-needed sunshine and fresh air during the summer months. That said, there are also plenty of tender annual plants unable to handle the climate conditions of our Pennsylvania winters. So, once summer ends, we start bringing those plants indoors to spend the winter with the rest of our houseplant collection! To avoid damaging your housepl ..read more

Whether you want to plant them throughout the landscape, in garden beds, or even in decorative containers, there are so many brilliant ways to use these beautiful, low-maintenance ornamental plants.   Ornamental grasses have so much to offer the landscape. Their slender, wispy foliage brings textural contrast and a sense of movement to the scenery, and their distinctive blooms are undeniably lovely. There are so many ornamental grasses native to Pennsylvania, and planting them helps support our local wildlife and biodiversity! Plus, they’re super low-maintenance, so you can get incredible ..read more

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