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Saving seeds to use for the next year’s garden is not difficult once you understand the process. As more people turn to gardening to supplement their food source, saving seeds is a great way to save money and eat healthier. The following is a step by step guide to saving seeds for beginners. Selecting the… Click here to read more…
I came up with an easy way to shade my cuttings this year PLUS I have a bit of a surprise for you. AND… you’ll get to hear from Amber! Watch the video below…
Chinese Dogwood trees are really special because they bloom later than most flowering trees and often bloom longer. Here in zones 5 and 6, they don’t start blooming until at least June. The blooms open a beautiful mint green in color and then whiten as time goes on. Is there a market for Chinese Dogwood… Click here to read more…
It’s a busy week for us… digging water lines, installing drain pipes, making retaining walls and potting up our rooted cuttings. Small Plants Like this Sell Like Crazy and in Many Cases You Can Find Buyers all over the Country that Will Buy from You. Just Put them in a Box and Send them Off. … Click here to read more…
Dianthus is an amazing plant that will really wake up any landscape. They bloom heavily in the spring, on into the summer and if you deadhead them (remove the spent flowers after blooming) they are likely to bloom again even into the fall. They love full sun and do well in zones 4 through 9. … Click here to read more…
I setup a rooted cutting experiment to see which medium would work best between coarse sand and potting soil. Watch the video to see which worked best!
There is nothing like the smell of a fragrant viburnum outside your bedroom window or off the end of your porch. As the wind blows the fragrance is carried throughout the yard. There are a number of different fragrant Viburnums but two old time favorites, and the two that are still the best no matter… Click here to read more…
“How to” DVD Now Available. Graft Your Own Beautiful Japanese Maples at Home! Japanese maple trees are by far some of the most beautiful and the most desired plants in gardens around the world. Those who have them love them, those who don’t covet them. But in garden stores they can be pricey! And the… Click here to read more…
Japanese Maple Grafting DVD, three people get it free! Discover how to grow beautiful Japanese maples like this at home! Grafting your own Japanese maple trees really isn’t difficult to do once you know how. The actual act of grafting is easy, but there are a lot of little things that determine how successful… Click here to read more…
How to Build a Plant Propagation Box for Rooting Cuttings. The plant propagation box that I am going to show you how to build in this video is really, really easy to build. You can make it any size you want from a little tiny one and as large as you want. You can use this box… Click here to read more…
Propagating potentilla from cuttings is really easy to do and when done as softwood cuttings during the late spring early summer they root quite quickly, usually in two to three weeks. What I am going to show you in this post is propagating potentilla late in the season when the wood is much… Click here to read more…
I’ve been busy here in the nursery trying to squeeze in a few last events before winter arrives. In this video you’ll discover the simplicity of propagation from cuttings. For the most part I start taking cuttings around June 1st and continue taking them right up until the sand in my propagation boxes freezes. You… Click here to read more…
You are going to love this article on how to grow roses from cuttings. This is a really simple process that works and takes all the mystery out of rose propagation. A customer of mine actually made this video for you and I. Thank you Jeff! Rose Bush Propagation This is a process that can… Click here to read more…
Between real early spring and mid April is the ideal time to divide ornamental grasses, depending upon where you live. But the key is to get them divided before they start growing for the season. Just dig up the clump and cut, chop or saw the clump into small pieces. There really is no exact science… Click here to read more…
In this video I am going to show you how to divide hoastas. Division is exactly as it sounds. You just dig up the parent plant that you intend to reproduce and quite simply divide it into many plants.Of course the size of the parent plant will determine how many times you can divide it.If… Click here to read more…
Daylilies should be divided at least every few years in order to keep them blooming well. After a while the roots become overgrown and hinder the plants’ ability to produce as many flowers. They should be divided in the late summer or fall, after they have finished blooming for the season. The typical method of… Click here to read more…
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People often get really confused when you start talking about grafted plants or budded plants. They also get confused when they have plants in their landscape that start acting crazy and they don’t know why. In this video, I explain how and why plants produce suckers and why those suckers should be removed. If they… Click here to read more…
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