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Expert care advice for maintaining healthy boxwoods
Learn how to protect your plants and minimize winter damage
Learn how to protect plants this winter so they thrive come spring.
Expert advice for successfully maintaining potted camellias
Prepare your garden for the season with this month-to-month Fall Growing…
Common Questions and Answers
Not all gardeners are blessed with rich, loamy soil.
Made for Southern Gardens
Bold evergreen foliage that lasts all year
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Try these helpful tricks in your garden.
Purple Pixie® Loropetalum is truly a new and unique plant.
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A Loropetalum Size Guide
How to attract beneficial insects to the garden
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Here are some tips to encourage gardenias to bloom
This year’s off-season blooming is not a source for concern
How to identify and properly prune your summer beauties
Want outstanding blooms that dazzle all summer? Our experts in this…
How to care for this petite beauty
4 ways to make a statement with Yewtopia® Plum Yew
How to structurally prune young trees
Caring for Plants after the Storm
The natural way to banish bugs and pathogens from your garden
Expert advice for using a variety of camellias
A recipe for garden success
Why now is the time to start digging
Versatile Delta Series Crapemyrtles shine bright in summer
Spring-Blooming Early Bird™ Crapemyrtles
How to entice pollinators to your garden
Our plants are so much more than just a brand name on a label.
Learn the optimum time to plant trees, shrubs, annuals, perennials,…
Not all plants should be pruned in late winter or early spring.
Join Carmen Johnston in this video as she details 5 easy to grow plants.
“Crape Murder,” is often committed by otherwise decent, law-abiding…
Learn the proper way to prune crapemyrtles for maximum blooms and…
Four easy steps to make your Purple Pixie® Loropetalum thrive
Increase your gardening potential with microclimates.
Loropetalums and more plants for your deer-resistant garden
Fall and spring bulbs share similar growing behaviors and planting…
Let’s make compost.
Plants have different preferences in soil texture, drainage, nutrients,…
Oxblood Lilies bloom striking vermilion red flowers beginning in early…
Who can resist the sweet doe-eyed Bambi we’ve grown to love in cartoons?
The most basic factor in selecting the right plants depends on your…
Make gardening much easier by choosing from our list of top 5 plant…
How to choose plants based on light conditions in the landscape
Make planning your garden or landscape much easier with our easy care…
How do you know how good your soil is or how to make it better? Just…
Insects are an important part of your ecosystem, accept their presence.
Follow these 6 easy steps to improve and enhance your garden:
Spring planting goes beyond immediate gratification and can keep on…
Use this checklist to to support and protect new growth in your garden.
We all love drought resistant plants!
Shrubs need protection from extreme weather conditions!
Expert tips for doing the job correctly
Take the time to transplant your shrubs so they can thrive!
Late fall and winter can be a dormant season for gardeners.
As much as we’d like to hibernate during winter, the leaves remind…
We've made planning easy by selecting ten must have plants for fall.
Fall planting advice and plant suggestions from Southern Living Plants
Grab your gloves, here are 11 essential garden tasks for fall.
Freshen your landscape and ready it for winter temperatures and spring…
Learn about the special features of Queen Mum™ Agapanthus
Learn about LeAnn's uniform growth and evergreen leaves
Learn why Emerald Snow is a perfect, evergreen shrub
In this video, learn why Rosalinda is the most vigorous and robust…
This video shows why Cleopatra is an excellent choice for many landscape…
Learn how to jazz up your garden with this versatile small tree
In this video, learn why we love this his early blooming crapemyrtle
This video shows off Flirt's superior color through the summer
Learn about Yewtopia's uses and easy care in this video
Always a southern favorite, Jubilation shows off its beauty in this…
Just the plant we've been crying for, learn why we love Pixie in the…
In this video, learn how Spring Sonata is in perfect tune with today's…
This video shows off this new and distinctive nandina
What’s not to love about compost?!
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