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Cut flowers continue to grow in popularity, as consumers look for locally grown fresh flowers. Early fall is a great time to start a cut flower bed, and get bulbs and perennials in the ground for an early start in the spring. Tulips (most popular cut flower!), daffodils and alliums  Read more

If you’ve stopped by Planters’ Choice in Newtown in the past few weeks, you may have noticed the new garden around the sign. All of the plants are in place, and many are blooming. We outlined the planting requirements in prior articles, and developed a list of plants that fulfilled  Read more

As part of the planting plan for around the Planters’ Choice sign that we created in Step 3, we intended to put new plants in the entire area from the maple tree to the road and from the driveway to the parking lot. This meant removing all of the existing grass,  Read more

It’s time to select plants for the bed near the Planters’ Choice sign on Huntingtown Road. In the last step Elizabeth narrowed down the selection of plants to ones that will do best in part sun and part shade, dry to medium soil moisture, medium to high salt tolerance, and  Read more

Mt. Cuba Center is a non-profit botanical garden located in Hockessin Delaware. Originally a private garden, the transition to a public garden began in 2002, also the first year in which native plant trials were started. Over the years, many native plants have been tested, with Carex being the most  Read more

My coworker, Elizabeth, and I have taken on the project of renovating and replanting the area around the Planters’ Choice sign on Huntingtown Road in Newtown. Being a plant nursery, we both agreed that there should be more plants and pizazz around the sign. Since we were new to the  Read more

Definition of a Native Plant A native plant is one that lives or grows naturally in a particular region without direct or indirect human intervention. It is a part of the balance of nature that has developed over hundreds of thousands of years in a particular region or ecosystem (USDA  Read more

How can it be that we are heading into fall already? Spring and summer seem to always just fly by! Some of us look forward to it, while some of us dread it. Either way, it’s almost here. So let’s start thinking about your fall planting projects! Japanese Katsura (Cercidiphyllum  Read more