Gardening Tips
Coordinating Fall Mums, Grasses, and More in Your Landscape
It’s just around the corner—the season of all things pumpkin spice and sweater weather! Early fall is the ideal time to reassess our gardens and consider adding new plantings while the soil is still warm and the temperatures are mild. Let’s get our landscape ready for fall by coordinating mums, perennial grasses, asters, and the…
Read MoreRefresh Your Fall Garden
Maintaining a bright, beautiful garden in the summer months is pretty much a no-brainer, but many gardeners forget how many gorgeous fall-blooming perennials and annuals there are to choose from. If you take a walk around your neighborhood, you might notice flowering shrubs, foliage, and other perennials that you, too, can include in your landscape…
Read MoreAll-Season Color Hacks: How to Combine Annuals and Perennials in Your Landscape
It’s one of the toughest challenges a gardener can have—how to get color in the garden all season long. Some of us find it easy to achieve a vibrant flowering spring garden, but when the heat of mid-summer hits, our gardens tend to drift away into a sea of green—and sometimes brown. There are a…
Read MoreHow to Prepare Heavy Clay and Sandy Soils for Planting
Soil is the secret sauce of gardening. While it may just look like brown dirt, it is the lifeblood for healthy plants. Unfortunately, many of us work with poor native soil that leaves our trees, shrubs, and perennials wanting more. The landscape near our Blooms Greenhouse in Laporte, Indiana, tends to be on opposite sides…
Read MoreGrow Your Groceries in Style with Our Edible Container Gardening Tips
Grow your groceries! Even apartment dwellers can reap the benefits of growing produce with these easy edible plants to grow in pots. Regardless of landscape size, container gardens are ideal, and it’s becoming trendy to not only grow your own produce but to display it proudly in your front gardens and containers. Let’s dig into…
Read MoreHanging Basket Design: How to Design Your Baskets Like a Pro
The ease and versatility of hanging baskets are not to be overlooked. As gardeners, we all crave a well-designed landscape full of lasting perennials, trees, and shrubs––but hanging baskets overflowing with vibrant annuals add an extra level of design that many gardens are missing. Plus, they allow us to experiment with trendy design principles––without the…
Read MoreEdible Garden Design: The Best Ideas for Planning Your Vegetable Garden Layout
It’s time to get growing! Regardless of the size of your landscape, anyone can design and implement an edible garden. There is nothing more satisfying than growing your own produce– it truly makes you feel like a superhero when green veggies and herbs begin to sprout through the soil. The first step is to plan…
Read MoreTrending Plants You Will Fall in Love With at First Glance
Spring planting season is upon us! Now is the perfect time to discover the new cultivars and trending plants that are sure to astonish. Let’s break those boring garden barriers with a sneak peek into what all the stylish gardeners will be adding to their landscapes this season. Trending Plants of 2021 Sometimes we wonder…
Read MoreGuide for Convenient Gardening
It’s not too late to have a bountiful garden…even if you have nothing close to a green thumb. Since we nearing the middle of May, it’s a little too late to grow plants the old fashioned way with seeds, but you can still have that dream garden. Here is your guide to having the most…
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