Garden Maintenance Articles
Soil is the foundation of a healthy garden, and knowing your soil type is essential for improving your soil health and arming you will the primary knowledge required to choose the right plants.
If you have questions about pruning such as when the best time is to cut back your hydrangeas, how far down the stems should you prune, or how to clean up a shrub with dead branches, you’ve come to the right place. Find the answers to these and many more pruning questions here.
Is there a low spot in your yard where water pooling in yard areas tends to pool for a day or more after a big rain? We’ll share a number of yard drainage solutions that will help prevent flooding, redirect runoff or soak up the excess in this helpful article to fix wet spots in yard situations.
If you are anything like me, the dream is to have a gorgeous garden regardless of the time of year, a true garden for year-round color. Having a garden that is always colorful will take time, persistence, patience, and planning. Just like any other garden, a garden that is always in color will need updating and care as time goes on to support garden color all seasons. Here are twelve items to consider when planning an ever-colorful, year-round garden color.
Roses are obviously beautiful, but notoriously terrifying to care for. We introduce roses that are easier to grow and enjoy! We choose roses with good disease resistance, long bloom times, and self-cleaning natures (goodbye deadheading!). Your garden will look like it’s maintained by professionals. We’ve made a guide to help you garden with confidence and get the most out of your Proven Winners ColorChoice roses.
Many gardeners ask us about how to overwinter salvia, especially when it comes to their Proven Winners salvias. Plants that are so vigorous and grow so large in a single season seem like they might be durable enough to survive the winter with proper salvia winter care, but will they? The answer is a little more complex than you might think. Here’s the low down on overwintering all of our salvia.
Gain some helpful tips about how to care for perennial plants including which types benefit from deadheading, how often to fertilize and divide, and much more in this informative article.
Summer is the time to enjoy the fruits of your spring labor and have fun in the garden. While you’re at it, keep up on these 10 basic summer gardening tasks and your plants will reward you by growing and blooming strong all the way through fall.
Clay soil is much maligned by gardeners and homeowners everywhere, and no wonder: it’s heavy, sticky, and difficult to work in. But the simple fact is that clay soil gets its bad rap because it’s hard on people - from a plant’s point of view, clay soil is usually not problematic at all. In fact, clay soils offer plants two major advantages over other soil types: they hold water well, minimizing drought stress, and are abundant in nutrients essential for plant growth. So, if you’ve been struggling to achieve your dream garden or landscape in clay soil, cheer up! Here are ten beautiful annuals that will thrive in clay.
“Why isn’t my plant showing any signs of life when everything else in my yard is?” you start to wonder. “Is it dead?”
