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• Category: Annuals
  • Fall In Love with Fall Pansies
  • Succulents
  • Flowering Hanging Baskets
  • Calibrachoa (Million Bells)
  • Tropicals
  • Wave Petunias
  • 8 Great Plants That Like It Hot!
• Category: Christmas Seasonal Guides
  • Live Christmas Tree Care
  • How To Care For Your Poinsettia
  • Holiday Decorating
  • Create a Beautiful Tree in 6 Easy Steps
  • Interesting Facts About Mistletoe
  • Cut Christmas Tree Care
  • Fun Poinsettia Facts
  • Top 6 Reasons to Buy Real vs. Artificial This Christmas
• Category: Fall Seasonal Guides
  • Ornamental Cabbage and Kale
  • How to Grow & Care for Fall Mums
  • Great Plants for Fall
  • Fall Mixed Containers
  • Fall Lawn Feeding
  • Fall Lawn Care Checklist
  • Fall Lawn Care Tips
  • Fall Foliage
  • Benefits of Fall Gardening
  • Planting Spring-Blooming Bulbs in the Fall
  • Excellent Fall Perennials
  • Fall Bulbs for Spring Color
  • Planting Perennials In the Fall
  • Fall Perennial Maintenance
  • Tips for Forcing Flower Bulbs
  • Types of Spring-Blooming Bulbs
  • Meadows Farms’ Top 8 Plants for Fall Color
• Category: Flowering plants
  • Rhododendrons
  • Summer Flowering Bulbs
  • Hydrangea Paniculata Varieties
  • Encore Azaleas
  • Farmer’s 5 Step Rose Care Plan
  • Traditional & Climbing Roses
  • Knockout Roses
  • Drift Groundcover Roses
  • Roses
  • Japanese Pieris
  • How to Grow a Butterfly Bush & Varieties
  • Crape Myrtle Trees (Lagerstroemia)
  • Hydrangea
  • Easy Camellias Care Guide for Beginners
  • Daylilies
  • Creeping Phlox (Phlox subulata)
  • Bee Balm Varieties (Monarda)
  • Heuchera and Heucherella
  • Astilbe (False Spirea)
  • Hostas, the Premier Shade Perennial
  • Lavender
  • Perennial Salvia
  • Spirea
  • Dianthus
  • Hellebores
  • May Blooming Perennials
  • Easter Flowers
  • Rudbeckia
  • Sedum
  • Summer Phlox & Garden Phlox
  • Echinacea (Coneflower)
  • Peonies
  • April Blooming Perennials
  • Early Bloomers
  • What is A Bulb?
  • How to Make a Butterfly Garden in Your Backyard
  • The Best Bedding Plants for Summer
  • How to Care for Azaleas (Rhododendron)
  • Container Gardening Tips
  • How Tulips “Burst” an Economy
  • Deadheading Annuals & Perennials
  • Better Home Value with Flower Bulbs
  • Fragrant Plants
  • Top 5 Abelia Plants For Your Home
  • Top 7 Best Varieties of Fall-Blooming Camellia Flowers
• Category: General Gardening Tips
  • Rain Gardening: Let it Rain!
  • Plant Care
  • Seed Starting Times
  • Why Do We Garden? For Improved Health, A Better Life, and A Greater World
  • Pruning Tips For February And March
  • Repotting Plants in Winter
  • Indoor Gardening
  • How to Treat Powdery Mildew
  • Spring Lawn & Garden FAQs
  • 4 Tips for Summertime Lawn Watering
  • Create a better soil environment for your lawn
  • Planting a New Lawn Using Sod
  • Spring Pruning 101
  • Planting Grass Seed for New Lawns in Spring
  • The Not So Dandy Dandelion
  • Common Weeds in the Lawn & Garden
  • Early Spring Lawn & Garden FAQs
  • What is Corn Gluten Organic Weed Preventer?
  • Spring Crabgrass Prevention
  • Blooming Dates in the Metro Area
  • How to Remove and Prevent Powdery Mildew on Your Plants
  • Plants That Attract Birds & Butterflies
  • Protecting Trees From Drought Stress
  • Dealing with Powdery Mildew
  • How To Prevent Blossom End Rot
  • Stepables and Groovy Groundcovers
  • They’re Here! Time to Protect Your Plants – Japanese Beetles
  • Native Plants
  • What Do “Full Sun Plants” and “Partial Sun Plants” Mean?
  • Prune Very Carefully
  • Keeping A Journal
  • Handy Tips
  • Gardening with Children
  • 6 Things Beginners should know
  • Common Mistakes to Avoid
  • Tips for Preserving Herbs
  • Organic Vegetable Gardens
  • Stink Bugs
  • Seed Starting
  • Wild Animal Control
  • Looking for a solution to garden pests? Check out Sevin Products!
  • Horticultural Oil Sprays
  • How To Prevent Tent Caterpillar & Gypsy Moths
  • Diagnosing Plant Problems
  • Deer Resistant Plants
  • Hedge and Screening Plants
  • Control Weeds in your Garden and Lawn
  • Groundcovers
  • How to Decide What Plant to Use
  • Top 5 Reasons to Mulch Your Garden This Season
  • Top 5 Cool-Season Vegetables To Try This Season
  • Top 5 August Gardening Tips
  • May – June Spring Gardening Checklist
  • March – April Gardening Task List
  • October Garden To-Do List
  • September Garden To-Do List
  • March Garden To-Do List
• Category: Houseplants
  • Top 5 Houseplants That Are Safe For Pets
  • Houseplant Highlight: Sansevieria
  • Houseplant Highlight: Fiddle-leaf Figs
• Category: Insects
• Category: Landscaping
  • Maximizing Your Outdoor Space: The Benefits of Winter Landscape Planning
  • Plants for Wet Areas
  • Organic Lawn Care Tips
  • Care Tips For Your Lawn
  • Landscaping Benefits to Property Values
• Category: Lawn Care Guides
• Category: Perennials
  • Perennial Ferns
• Category: Plant Highlights
  • The Benefits of Planting Your Own Fruit Trees
  • Arborvitae Varieties (Thuja)
  • Fruit Trees – Plums
  • Fruit Trees – Pears
  • Fruit Trees – Peaches
  • Fruit Trees – Cherries
  • Fruit Trees – Apple
  • Dogwoods
  • Popular Barberry Bushes & Shrubs (Berberis Vulgaris)
  • Nandina
  • Japanese Maples
  • 14 Types of Boxwood Varieties for Landscaping
  • Winter-Blooming Plants for the Mid-Atlantic
  • Christmas Cactus
  • How to Plant and Care for Amaryllis Bulbs
  • Fruity Tomatoes
  • Scenes From the Winter Garden
  • A Brown-Leafed Gordlinia
  • Collecting Mahonias (and Other Treasures)
• Category: Seasonal Tips
  • Tips on Watering Your Plants
  • Vacationing with Plants
  • How Do You Determine Winter Plant Damage
  • Giving Tender Plants Winter Protection
  • Dealing With Snow In The Garden
  • Christmas Tree Fun Facts & Folklore
  • Winter Houseplant Care
  • Early Spring Grass Seeding Guide
  • Spring Weed & Feed
  • Your 4-Step Guide to Simple Spring Lawn Care
  • Care of Your Christmas Greens
  • Summertime Watering Tips
• Category: Spring Seasonal Tips
• Category: Summer plants
• Category: Summer Seasonal Tips
• Category: Trees & Shrubs
• Category: Uncategorized
  • Pictures with Santa at the Great Big Greenhouse
  • Arriving This Week in The Nurseries (April 2nd)
  • Scheduled for Removal
  • Work To Be Done
  • Impatient For Spring
  • The Return of Milder Temperatures, and then…
  • Trying my Hand at Tamarinds
• Category: Vegetable gardening
• Category: Winter Seasonal Tips

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• January 2022
• November 2021
• October 2021
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• Other Exceptional Designs

Events

• FREE Kids Craft: Make a Bird Kite
• Kids Day in the Garden: Summer Kickoff 2024
• Landscape Designer Seminar
• Bee My Valentine Educational Booth
• Kenaanee Winter Market
• Kids' Fear Fest
• Cub Scout 1825 Drive
• Paid Workshop: Create a Fall Grab N' Go
• Avoiding the Boxwood Blues
• Fall Gardeners' Fair
• Houseplant & Garden Swap at 7 Corners
• Paid Workshop: Kids Terrarium Building
• Kids Activity: Honeybee Craft
• Fredericksburg Area Iris Society Annual Iris Sale
• Free Seminar: Watering
• Paid Workshop: Create a Summer Grab N' Go Container
• Kids Day at the Farmer's Market
• Free Kids Craft: Pollinators
• Kids Craft Event: Make a Gift for Dad
• Free Donuts
• Kids Craft Event: Potted Plant for Mom
• Kids Day in the Garden: Summer Kick-Off
• Kids Craft Event: Pot a Tomato
• Kids Craft Event: Seed Bombs
• Easter Egg Hunt
• Free Hot Dogs
• Weather in the Garden
• Big Sock Drop
• Coffee with Doug
• Spring Gardener's Fair
• Free Repotting in February
• Indoor Growing Seminar
• Houseplant Month at the Great Big Greenhouse
• RVA Tropical and Exotic Plants Plant Swap
• Kids Day in the Garden
• Star Wars Christmas Event
• Kids Craft Event: Rustic Tree Ornaments 3
• Kids Craft Event: Rustic Tree Ornaments 2
• Kids Craft Event: Rustic Tree Ornaments
• Kids Day at the Train Station
• Holiday Open House
• Ladies Night Out
• Kids Craft Event: Pumpkin Painting Weekend 2
• Fall Gardeners' Fair
• Cookies for Kids Cancer
• Fall Festivals
• Kid's Craft Event: Pumpkin Painting Weekend
• Kid's Craft Event: Powerful Pollinators
• Kid's Craft Event: Back to School Teacher Gift
• House Plant Swap
• Parking Lot/Tent Sale
• Summer Clean-up Sale
• One Day Only 4th of July Sale
• Kids / Pets Day in the Garden Contest
• Kids Day at the Farmers Market
• Free DIY Design Drop-in for the Spring
• Alzheimer’s Day
• Pink Day