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Planting Tips. Professional Tricks.

Select plants that not only bring joy to your landscape but also serve important functions and thrive in their environment, adhering to the "right plant, right place" principle. By choosing wisely, you can ensure beauty and practicality throughout the year while minimizing potential issues with pests and diseases in your garden. Make your selections count for a vibrant, healthy landscape!

The North Carolina Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox

Gardening Simplified Radio Show

The Beginner's Guide to Getting a New Shrub Established

Why Is My Hydrangea Flopping Over? | 3 Reasons and How to Fix It

How to Water Shrubs Properly | Knowing When and How to Water

Top 10 Shrubs for Low-Water Use

How to plant in clay, poorly draining, and compact soils. Proper tools, amendments, and techniques.

Another informative video from HortTube with Jim Putnam

10 Benefits of Mulch

Another great video by HortTube with Jim Putnam

How to Prune Your Boxwoods

Luke Gustafson, Agent Associate for UME Charles County shows how and why you should prune your boxwood to keep them healthy and disease-free.

When And How To Prune A Rose Bush

If pruned properly, your rose bush will thrive for years and produce the most beautiful blooms.

- Homesteading off the Grid

4 Easy Plants to Grow from Cuttings

With a single method, you can propagate and grow many different plants from stem cuttings. In this video, I'll show you 4: hydrangea, currants, St. John's wort, and Russian sage (three shrubs and a perennial) all prepared with the semi-hardwood technique.

- Jason, Fraser Valley Farms

Azalea Pruning

Today, we are going to show you how to prune the azalea cultivar ‘Karen.’ This is a locally bred cultivar by Joseph Gable in Stewartstown, PA. 

7 Rules for Pruning Roses

In this video I'll go through seven of the most commonly advised pruning practices, explain the "why" around them, and give my opinion about whether you should follow them.

- Jason, Fraser Valley Rose Farm