GARDEN & HOME Portulaca: Complete Plant Care And Growing Guide From Our Garden To Yours, Expect Success With Stutzmans Grow a beautiful portulaca for a lovely, multi-colored cascade of summer flowers. Easy to grow and not at all fussy. How To Grow And Care For Drought-Tolerant Portulaca Also known as moss rose, portulaca plants delight gardeners with their vibrant multi-colored blooms. Unique in form and growth habit, portulaca are most...

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GARDEN & HOME Crepe Myrtle - Beautiful Blooms & Summer Loving Jason French, Greenhouse Manager Our July Plant of the Month While I like all of the plants of the month, this month is a personal favorite of mine, Crape Myrtle. When most people think of Crape Myrtle, they envision the large shrubs and small to medium sized trees found in the Deep South. Unfortunately, with our sometimes erratic and extreme winters they don’t grow like that...

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Shrubs NOT to prune in fall: Forsythia White Spirea Lilac Hydrangea These shrubs overwinter spring flowers in their buds.  While not harmful, fall pruning will eliminate spring blooms.  Best results are achieved pruning just after bloom fade. Share this: Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Print (Opens in new window) Print Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on...

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GARDEN & HOME Jason’s Grass Seeding Tips - Fall is a Great Time to Overseed Jason French, Greenhouse Manager September is here. Not only do we transition our beds and containers to fall, now is the time to get our lawns back in shape. A lot of the fescue lawns were stressed and damaged by the hot, dry summer. The most common way to quickly improve a lawn is with some seeding. If your lawn is mostly full but has thinned over seeding would be...

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Spending time outside is the best part about summer, but battling the mosquitos… not so much fun. Here are nine plants to grow that are not only beautiful or delicious, they also take the sting out of summer. Alliums (otherwise known as onions, garlic, leeks and chives) keep the buzzing at bay and also repel Japanese beetles. Try Chives, or the potent and delicious Garlic Chives. Basil will repels...

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GARDEN & HOME Attracting Bees to the Garden From Our Garden To Yours, Expect Success With Stutzmans Many gardeners like to help our bee population succeed by offering flowers to help them thrive.  Here’s some simple bee tips for you. How You Can Help the Bees in Your Own Garden The following tips will help you create a beautiful garden that is helpful to bees and other beneficial insects. Create Diversity and Color: Some creatures may be...

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