Flowers that Flourish in Containers

Container gardens are a great way to bring a pop of lovely color to any space without much work. Whether you don’t have the ground space available to grow flowers, or you just hate maintaining a large flowerbed, they’re perfect. Not all flowers are the right fit for...

Vegetable Garden in a Pot

When people think of container gardens, their first thought may be of hanging flower baskets and rail planters full of perennials. What they don’t think of is vegetables. There’s this silly idea that vegetables demand the ground, but it’s not true! Plenty of...

How to Split Overgrown Perennials

If you have perennial flowers in your garden that have outgrown their welcome, at least in terms of how much space they are taking up, you need to split them. It’s unfortunate, by sometimes you just have a couple of bully plants who seem to think they own the place...

6 Landscape Designs for the Do-It-Yourselfer

Everyone loves the looks of a great yard that’s obviously had some landscaping done, but not everyone can afford to pay someone else to do it. We’ve collected some great tips to help you do landscape design on your own! All you need to pay for is the plants...

Container Gardening – 101

Thankfully the pollen and leaf-drop season is almost over in Tampa.  Now is the time to wash the yellow powder off the car or have the house pressure washed. It is also a great time to freshen up outdoor planters. Creating fabulous planters may seem like a time...