Proven Winners

Wouldn't it be fun to have a foodscape at your fingertips? Using a planter table allows you to serve healthy food right from where you grow it. You'll find them sold at garden centers, home improvement stores and online. The custom made table shown here is filled with Proven Harvest® Berried Treasure® strawberries, Goodhearted® tomatoes, Fire Away® Hot and Heavy peppers, AlliYum® garlic chives and Mojave® Tangerine purslane. Find more planter table ideas linked in today's Insta story.

🌱 It's been a late spring for many of you, and we've been seeing a number of people who are concerned that their plants didn't make it through the winter. Here's the good news: it's probably not time to worry yet. Give them a few more weeks and they should make their grand re-entrance once the weather warms up and the days grow longer. 😴 Not all plants sprout at the same time or on the same schedule. There are some that sleep late every year, even when spring arrives on time. We've pictured 10 ...

✂️ It's time to prune your roses! Thanks to our shrub partner @pwcolorchoice for sharing these great tips with us. 📽️ Catch their video of the process on their Insta post from 4/19. Pictured is our Rose of the Year, Suñorita, but these tips can apply to all of your shrub roses. Generally, the best time to prune your shrub roses is in early spring just as the new growth begins. Proper pruning ensures that the new growth for the season will come from the stronger buds further down on the plant. ...

🐦 It's National Audubon Day, so let's celebrate with 10 bird-friendly plants you could plant this spring. Some provide nourishment while others offer shelter or make great nesting material. 📷 Swipe left to see: 1 - Color Coded® 'Frankly Scarlet' Echinacea (coneflower) - a native cultivar that provides seeds for songbirds; hardy in zones 4-8; full sun to part sun 2 - Low Scape Snowfire™ Aronia (chokeberry) - a new native cultivar that produces an abundant crop of large purple-black berries in l...

In a recent Insta story poll, a whopping 70% percent of you told us that your area is experiencing a late spring. It seems it's happening just about everywhere this year. So, tell us--What's just starting to bloom in your garden now? And is it blooming later than usual? Share in the comments below. 👇🏽 📷 'Spot On' Pulmonaria, commonly known as lungwort, is one of the very first perennials to bloom and bring back the bees in the springtime in zones 3-9. You'll notice its flower buds emerge very ...

💐 Have you wondered how to get your flowers to mix as beautifully as they do in the pictures? Here's an inside scoop: growers can make mixes like this because they start with small flower plugs, and they interplant them together in the container so they'll naturally mix nicely together as they mature. This is tougher to achieve yourself because the flowers you buy at garden centers are in 4" or larger containers, not small plugs. To get them to mix nicely, you'll need to gently weave their ste...

💕 A dynamic duo! Wouldn't you love to look out the window this spring and see these two blooming in your garden? This is Spring Bling™ 'Ruby Riot' phlox and 'Heaven Scent' Jacob's ladder--two spring blooming hardy perennials that pair perfectly together in a sunny spot with well-drained soil in zones 3-7. 👈🏽 Swipe left for a closer look at 'Heaven Scent'. These colors are not photoshopped! This plant really does emerge with almost black foliage in spring before transitioning to an olive green ...

There are endless ways to honor and care for the land on which we live every day, not just on Earth Day. Here are 5 ways you can take action today: 🌎 Plant something you can harvest and eat or buy from your local farmer's market. Any reduction in your consumption of mass produced food helps reduce your carbon footprint. 🌎 Take out a little more lawn to make room for more sustainable plants that benefit local wildlife, beneficial insects and pollinators. 🌎 Plant an oak tree - a single oak can ...

🐝 Thanks for checking out our post about perennials for pollinating bees on April 8th! As promised, here's a list of annuals that will bring in the bees, butterflies and hummingbirds this summer. (If you live someplace very warm, these may be perennials for you--see zones listed below.) There are many more we could list, but Insta only allows us 10! 😊 1 - Heat it Up® Yellow gaillardia (blanket flower) - zone 8-10, full sun 2 - Rockin'® Blue Suede Shoes™ salvia - zone 9-11, part sun to full sun...

🌴 Here's a little something beautiful to get you over the mid-week hump - the gardens at Grand Tradition Estate and Gardens in Fallbrook, CA. Give yourself a moment to imagine the warm sun on your face, the gentle rush of the waterfall, the butterflies enjoying the Luscious Berry Blend lantana and Supertunia Vista Fuchsia petunias. 😍 Have a great rest of your week, friends!

🌟 New this year! Simply Scentsational® sweetshrub (Calycanthus floridus) truly has it all--incredibly fragrant, burgundy magnolia-like blossoms that bloom from late spring to early summer and again in midsummer, good deer resistance, a lovely habit (swipe left to see!), and a broad range of hardiness from zones 4a-9b. It thrives in sunny to partly sunny gardens in moist, well-drained soil where it grows 6' tall x 4-5' wide. Familiar with the equally fabulous 'Aphrodite' sweetshrub? Here's how t...

If you could paint your house any color you wanted--any color at all--which color would you choose? (This one is similar to Benjamin Moore's Spring Moss. Doesn't that sound like the perfect name for a garden shed color?)