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!
Planting Tips. Professional Tricks.
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