Articles & Gardening Advice
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Rose

Take the Time to Stop & Smell the Roses

By From the Garden Center

Have you ever taken the time to literally stop and smell the Roses yet the Rose had no fragrance AT ALL!  That’s right…many Roses have NO fragrance.  What a bummer!  Fragrance is probably the single most common trait people indentify with a perfect Rose. Read more click title.

Formula for a Successful Rose Garden

By From the Garden Center
 Roses are an all-time favorite. Growing roses doesn’t have to be a challenge. Chose the right roses for your growing conditions and you’re half way to having a spectacular rose garden. Learn the basics of caring for roses and your rose bushes will be the envy of the neighborhood. Read more click title.

Basics of Rose Pruning

By From the Garden Center
Pruning rose bushes is intimidating to many gardeners, but actually very good for the plants. Becoming an accomplished rose pruner takes time and practice, but keep in mind that it is very hard to kill a rose with bad pruning. Read more click title.
Tree & Shrub

Gardening To Do List - February In The Garden

By From the Garden Center

About Winter Tree Pruning

By From the Garden Center

Maintaining a beautiful landscape is important for an avid gardener. One of the ways to help keep the garden looking clean and beautiful is by pruning trees. Pruning not only gives trees an aesthetic appearance, it contributes to their well-being and helps them with healthier growth. Performing winter pruning on trees annually can help trees develop beautifully.  Read more click title.

Gardening To do List - December in the Garden

By From the Garden Center
Many of us do more shopping and planning for our gardens during the winter months than actual gardening but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing to do. In the warmer zones, December is the start of pleasant weather and a chance to enjoy planting cool season vegetables and flowers that don’t tolerate your summers. Northern gardeners should use this period without leaves to scout for egg masses and other signs of trouble on trees and shrubs. Here are some more regional gardening tips for the beginning of winter. Read more click title.

Choosing a Real Christmas Tree

By From the Garden Center
There's no substitution for a real Christmas tree. Artificial ones may be gaining in popularity, but how many family memories are really created by dragging a dusty fake tree down from the attic or out of the corner of the garage?  Read more click title.

Insect Control: Horticultural Oils

By Guides Fertilome
Various oils have been used for centuries to control insect and mite pests. Oils remain an important tool to manage certain pest problems (e.g., scales, aphids, mites) on fruit trees, shade trees and woody ornamental plants. Several recently developed oils extend this usefulness to flowers, vegetables and other herbaceous plants.  Read more click title.
Flower

Fertilome and Monrovia Partner to Bring New Co-branded Products to Independent Garden Centers

By Fertilome Solutions
AZUSA, Calif. – (January 26, 2011) "the ferti-lome® people" from -- VPG™ and Monrovia have announced the formation of Distinctively Better® Partners, a joint venture to introduce a line of co-branded garden and plant health products, which will be sold exclusively in independent garden centers, hardware stores, and farm and ranch stores. This multi-year partnership is based on the well-established brand recognition and values of both companies’ premium line of products.  Read more click title.

Time for Planting

By Tony Meyer

Gardeners across the land are ready to get their flower beds and the vegetable gardens prepared for planting.  It’s always exciting to get new plantings in the ground bringing the colors of Spring to our yards.  Give your garden a jump start on the season with fertilizer and special care from your local garden centers and nurseries.

 

ferti•lome®  Root Stimulator

-        Newly planted flowers, shrubs, trees and vegetable plants

-        Contains hormone type root stimulator & fertilizer to aid in development of strong root structure & vigorous plant growth


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The Beauty of the Flower Garden

By From the Garden Center
Plants in all their color, form and variety is the appeal of a flower garden.  You can be the artist as you choose from perennials, annuals, bulbs, vines and ornamental grasses.  Read more click title.

Growing Annuals from Seed

By From the Garden Center
Growing annuals like zinnias, marigolds, and tomatoes from seed is easy and economical. The exact time to start seeds varies with the plant and with your location. In general, it's about six weeks before the date of the average last frost in your area. Seed catalogs and packages usually list the number of weeks needed when starting seeds indoors. Read more click title.
Fruit & Vegetable

Gardening To Do List - November in the Garden

By From the Garden Center

Gardening To Do List - October in the Garden

By From the Garden Center
Gardening in October is entirely dependent on the weather. While gardeners in warm areas will have more to do than their northern counterparts, there are plenty of garden tasks to keep everyone busy in October.
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September Lawn & Garden To-Do List

By From the Garden Center

August Lawn & Garden To-Do List

By From the Garden Center

Regional Gardening Guide for June

By From the Garden Center

By the month of June, all northern hemisphere gardens are in full throttle. Garden chores are almost equalized across zones. Warmer climates are still ahead of the game, shifting into a transition period northern gardeners don’t experience. But crops are still growing, insects are still feasting and, despite the heat and humidity, this is not the time to rest.  Read more click title.

Lawn

“Jamie Durie in San Antonio Promoting Garden Products from ferti-lome and Natural Guard.”

By Fertilome Solutions
“Saturday, November the 5th,  The Garden Center in San Antonio, Texas hosted Jamie Durie for an afternoon presentation and book signing. The event was very successful and the owner was pleased to have doubled revenues that day.  Read more click title.

Lawn Moles

By Fertilome Solutions

Fields of Yellow Before My Eyes!

By Tony Meyer

Fertilizers, What Are They All About

By From the Garden Center
Have you ever wondered "Why fertilize" or "What to look for” when it comes to fertilizers? Read more click title.

Imagining a Real Garden

By Judy Sharpton
What can be more comforting to a gardener in hibernation than the extravagance of garden catalogs? Print or electronic, these pages of limitless promise console through the dark winter hours.  And, what fabulous sources of information they are. The newest varieties and most colorful annuals and perennials glow on every four-color page. Cornucopias of vegetables and fruits spill over the margins in such abundance to be the envy of the neighborhood. Read more click title.