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Best Trees for Zone 8 Featured Article

Best Trees for Zone 8

Zone 8 grows a huge range of trees. Here are the best evergreen privacy trees, Southern magnolias, flowering, native, and shade trees, plus how to plant them.

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4 Container Garden Styles For Summer

4 Container Garden Styles For Summer

Refresh your outdoor spaces with four container garden styles designed for summer color and texture. Find inspiration for combining plants and planters on patios, porches, balconies, and entryways.

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Best Plants for Gardening Beginners

Best Plants for Gardening Beginners

Starting a garden is easier when you choose dependable plants that forgive a few beginner mistakes. Explore low-maintenance flowers, shrubs, houseplants, and landscape favorites that make gardening more successful and enjoyable.

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Georgia Native Planting Guide

Georgia Native Planting Guide

As the sweet peach state, Georgia is truly a magical state that is home to seven natural wonders and boasts a pleasant subtropical climate. With the added bonuses of longer growing seasons and mild winters, the opportunities for Georgia native planting are expansive. Check out this blog to learn the importance of planting native and for some Georgia native planting options!

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Early Spring Color and Blooms For Your Yard: Perennial Edition

Early Spring Color and Blooms For Your Yard: Perennial Edition

Where trees and shrubs can be thought of as the bones of the landscape, perennials might be thought of as the tissue, the flesh and blood, providing the color, and often the seasonal interest to a yard. Early spring blooming perennials offer these pops of color at the start of planting season. The Garden Goods Direct Team loves all perennial plants, but we’d be lying if we said we didn’t have a few favorites. In this blog we will dive into the best perennial plants to bring early spring color and beauty to a landscape.

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Ohio Native Planting Guide

Ohio Native Planting Guide

As a gorgeous state home to Lake Erie, the Appalachian Mountain Range, and the ever-so expansive Ohio river, the state of Ohio is a prime planting zone with so many amazing options for native planting. The soils are naturally fertile and rich in phosphates making for easy and plentiful planting. Not to mention the relatively humid subtropical climate makes for ideal conditions for a wide variety of garden plants. Check out this blog to learn more on why you should plant native this season, and then dive into some great Ohio Native planting options!

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New York Native Planting Guide

New York Native Planting Guide

Home to the humid summers and chilling winters, not to mention the city that never sleeps, New York is a diverse state with a plethora of planting options to explore. From rooftop gardens in the city, to meadows and orchards in the countryside, New York allows for a wide range of planting opportunities. Check out this blog to learn the importance of planting native, and then dive into some great native plant options you can use in your New York garden this planting season!

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Maryland Native Planting Guide

Maryland Native Planting Guide

Home to the Chesapeake Bay, Natty Boh and Old Bay, Maryland is a gorgeous state with a plethora of planting options to explore. Maybe we are a little biased, considering MD is where Garden Goods Direct was born…but nonetheless, if you are lucky enough to be a Maryland resident the opportunities for planting are endless. Check out this blog to learn the benefits of planting native and what Maryland Native Plants the GGD team suggests!

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When Should I Plant My Spring Garden?

When Should I Plant My Spring Garden?

Don’t miss your window. Here’s why spring planting sets your garden up to thrive.

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Top 10 Fall Flowers to Plant | Fall Gardening Tips

Top 10 Fall Flowers to Plant | Fall Gardening Tips

When choosing your fall flowering plants, you must find flowering plants that have a late bloom season, and what are those flowers, you may ask? We put together a list of 10 of our favorite fall flowering plants that are must-haves in your garden! Watch your summer garden fade while bright, vibrant, and spectacular fall flowers bud their heads all through the season.

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