
Sunnyside Nursery Blog
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Steve Smith's weekly gardening column will impart timely gardening advice sprinkled with a bit of humor. Sunnyside Nursery is a garden center for all your landscaping essentials with a friendly, knowledgeable staff. We're a small, local business and support the same in our community.
Sunnyside Nursery Blog
3d ago
I am back once more to help you continue down the road to pruning success this week with episode three. Most things work best as a trilogy, right? I am sure that all of your eager gardening minds are ready for more this week as we keep this momentum going. Up next is a focus on types of buds, which will ..read more
Sunnyside Nursery Blog
1w ago
My hope from last week is that I got everyone’s pruning juices flowing. This week I will attempt to build on that momentum and get into some more specifics. If you got outside in this wonderfully cold and sunny weather and started your personal pruning battle plan, pat yourself on the back! You have earned a gold star and embarked on a journey to pruning success. If you haven’t, don’t worry, there is still time ..read more
Sunnyside Nursery Blog
2w ago
Winter presents the ideal time to prune a great many things, so I am going to attempt to inspire you to get your landscape specimens pruned… and properly. This will be a difficult subject to explain through verbiage, but I am thinking we can at least tackle some ..read more
Sunnyside Nursery Blog
3w ago
As we march on through the month of January, it is time to recall the annual gardening tradition of dormant spraying. The ideal products may have changed a bit over the years, and certainly their effectiveness has improved as well, but the spray techniques and principles remain the same. A plan for success always begins with ..read more
Sunnyside Nursery Blog
1M ago
As we begin to navigate 2025, I have decided to start the year with a new mantra… “Strive in ’25”, which of course has meaning in my landscape AND my daily life. There seems to be so much strife and negativity these days, but we can counter this by striving for positivity. We can strive for ..read more
Sunnyside Nursery Blog
1M ago
I am sure many of you, like me, are battling the seemingly endless procession of rabbits invading your garden. In my landscape, the cute little furry destructors are there every morning to send me off to work, and then there to welcome me home. The main perpetrators are usually ..read more
Sunnyside Nursery Blog
1M ago
I thought it might be fun to kick off 2025 in style with some talk about climate, gardens, and the adjustments we continue to make to both our gardening choices and practices. Gardeners have certainly always been flexible, or rolled with the punches as they say. As Mother Nature surprises us with this or that, she always ..read more
Sunnyside Nursery Blog
1M ago
One of my all-time favorite plants is the Hellebore, a magnificent evergreen perennial that goes back for millennia in gardens across the globe. These plants thrive in our climate and should be utilized in every landscape without question. They make wonderful ..read more
Sunnyside Nursery Blog
2M ago
The winter solstice is upon us, and I am sure everyone is looking forward to a bit more light each day, eventually steering us towards the great annual awakening of spring. To most gardeners, the idea of year ‘round interest is top of mind, as patrons I speak to year after year look to add specimens into their landscapes that provide that “WOW” factor all year long, including ..read more
Sunnyside Nursery Blog
2M ago
In the weeks leading up to Christmas and New Year’s Day, several traditional houseplants are available for the holiday season. Most places I visit seem to have Poinsettias, Amaryllis and holiday cactus, and I think most enthusiasts are familiar with these common (but worthy) options. If you look a little closer, you will find ..read more