Blog - Playing in the Dirt

Scrumptious Strawberries It's strawberry season! This time of year we celebrate our strawberry harvests by making wonderful desserts, salads, drinks and smoothies with this delicious fruit. Growing your own strawberries is easy and harvesting the plump juicy fruit will be the real treat. Whether you're topping your morning cereal with them [...] Read Full Article

Creating a garden that attracts butterflies is easy and fun for the whole family. Beautiful butterflies add life and vibrant color to your garden as the flutter around from one bloom to another. Creating a habitat that attracts butterflies involves just a few basic things. Provide them with food, shelter [...] Read Full Article

Just because your backyard is shady, don't think you can't create a beautiful and colorful garden. Heucheras, commonly known as Coral Bells are shade perennials with fabulous foliage and spring flowers.  Whether you plant them in your garden beds or mix them into your shady containers, you will love the wonderful [...] Read Full Article

It's time to fertilize your Bermuda, Zoysia and St. Augustine lawns. We want you to have the prettiest lawn in your neighborhood! The first spring application of fertilizer for summer lawns can be applied once the soil temperature reaches 65 degrees. Typically this will be when Bermuda and St. Augustine grasses [...] Read Full Article

The Buck Stops Here! Hungry deer can be a real problem in your garden and landscape. They can devastate annual beds and perennials overnight. If you're having a problem with deer feeding in your garden there are a couple of things you can do to lessen the damage. Choose deer-resistant plants: Keep in [...] Read Full Article

Adding outdoor toss pillows is a quick and inexpensive way to update your outdoor living spaces. Choose from solid colors, stripes or patterns or try mixing them. Mix things up-  keys to mixing pillows with patterns: Choose pillows with coordinating and repeating colors. Vary the scale of the patterns - pair a bold [...] Read Full Article

Are you new to gardening or maybe you could use a refresher course on planting before spring? Here's a handy list of 5 gardening basics to get you started on any garden project. 1. Sunlight -  Examine the location where you want your new plants or garden and determine the sunlight [...] Read Full Article

Happy Flowers... You know the ones... with big, bold flowers in bright, vivid colors. They put a smile on your face when you see them blooming in your garden. They are so pretty you cut them to share with your friends and family. They are easy to grow and bloom [...] Read Full Article

March is a great time to freshen your mulch. Adding a layer of fresh mulch makes your beds look neat and tidy. What is mulch? Mulch is a layer of material added to the top of the soil surface in garden beds which is most often pine straw, hardwood mulch, pine [...] Read Full Article

Brazel Berries(TM) are a new collection of small fruits that have been developed to be simple to grow, beautiful, compact and delicious. The Brazel Berries collection includes Peach Sorbet (TM) blueberries, Raspberry Shortcake (TM) raspberries, and Jelly Bean (TM)  blueberries. Because of their ornamental beauty and compact size, these exciting new [...] Read Full Article