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Everything To Know About Skip Cherry Laurel Shrubs
As a longtime favorite in the landscape, we thought we’d take a moment to give Schip Cherry Laurel Shrubs the credit they deserve. Boasting lustrous narrow evergreen foliage, along with intricate white cones of blooms in spring, there is simply so much to love about Skip Laurels!
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Everything To Know About Skip Cherry Laurel Shrubs
As a longtime favorite in the landscape, we thought we’d take a moment to give Schip Cherry Laurel Shrubs the credit they deserve. Boasting lustrous narrow evergreen foliage, along with intricate white cones of blooms in spring, there is simply so much to love about Skip Laurels!
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How to Create Gorgeous Winter Planters for Your Home
Holiday porch pots are a simple way to create a welcome entrance for your holiday guests. While not technically living porch pots, they typically contain greens and pieces of living plants. Check out this blog to get inspiration and learn the best practices for creating and caring for winter planters!
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Deciduous Shrubs That Add Winter Interest To The Landscape
Throughout the seasons, the bright red berries and vibrant stems of deciduous plants are often hidden by luscious foliage; however, in winter is is really time for many of these plants to shine when they lose that foliage! Checkout this blog to learn how deciduous shrubs are a vital addition to a winter landscape.
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5 Plants that Create Year-Round Interest
If you are after a year-long landscape full of color and beauty, but you're unsure where to begin, have no fear. For your benefit, Woodie has taken stock of all the plants that he's planted over the years, and he has come to find a few standout options in the landscape that never fails to provide magnificent color and life throughout every season.
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7 Low-Maintenance Shrubs for Sensational Fall Color
Who doesn’t love when the weather gets a little cooler and the leaves put on their final show of the year, painting the skyline in remarkable shades of red, yellow, and orange. These low-maintenance shrubs give trees a run for their money when it comes to sensational fall color.
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How Not To Kill Your Houseplants
If you follow a few basic steps, you will feel like a houseplant expert in no time at all! From basic plant survival tips to the more in-depth causes of plant deaths, we have the information you need to make the transformation from horticulturally challenged to plant parent of the year in no time!
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6 Best Late-Summer Blooming Perennials
If you’ve caught the gardening bug, but feel like you’re late to the planting game, think again! We’ve compiled a list of our favorite late-summer-blooming perennials that are hardy to the elements and will have your summer yard exploding with life and color year after year!
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5 Reasons To Plant Pine Trees
Pine trees are probably in the top ten most well-known trees in the world. But why are they so well known, and what is so great about them? Woodie is here to tell you that there are endless reasons to plant pine trees; but, we won’t hold you here all day, so we’ll just go over a few! Check out this blog to learn the many benefits adding a pine tree to your landscape could have!
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Top 10 Plant Staples For Your Landscape
Whether you’ve been planting for years, or you’re simply just getting started in designing your landscape, there are a few plants that you will realize can just complete a space and bring beauty to your yard year after year! The Garden Goods Direct Team has compiled a list of what we believe to be the top 10 favorite plant staples for a landscape! Read on to learn more about these classics and how you can incorporate them into your yard design this season.
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