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How To Create A Formal Garden
While cultivating a formal garden may sound initially complicated, the process is actually quite simple. In this blog, we will examine the brief history of formal gardening and then discuss the key practices for designing your own formal garden.
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Early Spring Color For Your Yard
If you are eager to see some spring blooms and get your yard flourishing with color, you’re not alone! We’ve compiled a list of our favorite early spring bloomers that will have you diving into spring before the birds start chirping! Read the blog to learn more!
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Beautifying Your Yard With Helleborus
Coming in a wide range of bloom colors, there is a Helleborus strain for any and every garden design! Delicate rose-like petals grace these hardy perennials, but the real star of the show is the explosion of white to golden yellow stamens in the flower’s center. Check out this blog to learn more about our favorite winter-blooming perennial!
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Perennials That Add Winter Interest To The Landscape
When most gardeners think of perennials, they think of colorful summer blooms and the exciting color and texture of the leaves and flowers. While it's true that many perennials go dormant and die back to the ground in the winter, many perennials have a presence in the garden well into winter, even when dormant. Check out this blog to learn more about our favorite perennials to provide winter interest!
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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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Best Ways To Use Ornamental Grasses
Initially, the idea of planting grass may feel mundane and pointless, but there are so many beautiful varieties of ornamental grasses that will easily transform a space! And while many plants are tired and left lifeless after a long and hot season, mid to late summer into fall is the ornamental grass’s time to shine!
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Woodie's Favorite Mid-Spring Flowering Shrubs
Woodie loves all plants, but there is certainly a special place in his heart for spring flowering shrubs! From flowering shrubs that protect local pollinators, to ones that simply complete a design and create an aesthetically pleasing landscape, there are so many uses and reasons to incorporate spring flowering shrubs into your yard.
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6 Ways To Celebrate Earth Day
Are you in search of some ideas on how to celebrate this amazing planet we call home? Well the team over at Garden Goods Direct has some ideas. Whether it’s planting trees to mitigate climate change and clear the air of pollutants, or making simple choices to reduce your carbon footprint, there are so many ways that you can make a difference.
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Best Plants for Gardening Beginners
Gardening is a wonderful way to get outside and benefit yourself while also contributing to your local ecosystem and the world around you. The Garden Goods Direct team has compiled a list of the best plants for gardener beginners to get you started in the world of planting! These easy care, low maintenance yard plants will have you feeling like a garden pro in no time!
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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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