January & February Gardening
Get all the tips you need to have your gardening flourishing!
January 4, 2022
Garden Color
Harry Potter Inspired Gardens
From food to potions to wands to character names – the Harry Potter series lends itself quite nicely to garden planning in Tallahassee.
August 4, 2021
Water Garden Guide
Peace, tranquility and soothing sounds are just some of the benefits of incorporating a water feature to your garden. Picture rocking on the porch, cold iced tea in your hand on a hot summer day only to be cooled down further by the refreshing sounds of your water feature.
May 6, 2021
Hydrangeas for Mother’s Day
Hydrangeas are a classic for Mother’s Day, and with good reason. The soft, colorful blooms look like surreal paintings, adding splashes of blue, pink, and purple to the garden, right around Mother’s Day each year.
May 5, 2021
Azaleas Served Two Ways: Cloud Pruning vs Selective Pruning
To be honest, there was a time in my gardening journey when I thought there was a right way and a wrong way to prune azaleas.
March 23, 2021
Oh Deer…Dealing With Deer in the Garden!
Every list of deer resistant plants is fundamentally flawed (well-intentioned, but flawed), and that’s because they cannot definitively state whether the deer in your yard will eat your plants.
March 12, 2021
Louisiana Irises: Living Art From Our Own Backyard
Irises have inspired artists for centuries. Even masters like Van Gogh and Monet tried to capture the alluring beauty of these spring blooms. Despite the creativity and skill of these paintings, the real thing, the flower itself, still possesses the most magic.
March 3, 2021
Bring Color & Texture to Your Shade Garden with Caladiums
It can be a struggle to bring color into the shade garden – until you learn to utilize the humble Caladium!
February 27, 2021
Japanese Magnolias
While anyone can enjoy the trees at our local parks, you can bring home your very own Japanese Magnolia, to enjoy every year in your own garden.
February 22, 2021
Indeterminate VS Determinate Tomatoes
Growing tomatoes in Tallahassee is one of the staple spring crops we’re able to cultivate! There are dozens of varieties to choose from making things not only a tasty adventure but, also super interesting. Before you jump into growing some for yourself, and maybe even
February 10, 2021
Amaryllis: The Holiday Plant Gift that Keeps on Giving!
Amaryllis are easy-to-grow bulbs that come in a plethora of color options, from solid red, white, pink, or green to striped with all sorts of patterns and petal formations. Everyone has their personal favorite, from the classic Red Lion to the unique Sumatra and Picotee.
November 22, 2020
Hanging Baskets: Benefits & Tips
Hanging Baskets Hanging baskets are one of the easiest and most popular ways of bringing your garden or landscape to new heights (pun intended). Not only are hanging baskets beautiful, they also last longer than cut flowers and are easily moveable. They don’t require digging
November 10, 2020
Hail to Variegated Plants!
My love affair with variegated plants started in my early garden years. Whether walking through a botanical garden or arboretum, my eyes were immediately drawn to the distinctness of these plants.
August 19, 2020
Sweet and Salty: plants for coastal gardening in the Florida Panhandle
Picking the right plant for the right place is the cornerstone of successful gardening. The more challenging the environment, the more important the proper plant section becomes. Coastal gardens are particularly challenging due to salt spray in the air, salt in the groundwater, sandy soil
March 11, 2020
What is Fortuniana Rootstock?
Fortuniana Rootstock Roses are Great…but What Does That Mean? Some plants are grown with special roots that help them survive in tough environments. These special roots are called “rootstock”. Growers are able to take the roots of one plant, the top from another plant, and
January 30, 2020
HYDRANGEAS, A SPLASH OF COLOR
This time of year, everyone is looking for creative ways to add color to their yards or gardens. We at Tallahassee Nurseries have an easy solution for you…beautiful hydrangeas! Hydrangeas are easy to care for shrubs that can add texture, showy color, and a bit
May 29, 2019
Camellia Inspiration at Maclay Gardens
We’re out at Maclay Gardens to get inspiration for our Camellia discussion! If you’re looking for a low-care, long-lasting, winter show of blooms, camellias are the perfect choice.
February 26, 2019
In Praise of the Glorious, Ordinary Azalea
Azaleas are fantastically useful plants that can solve all kinds of landscape problems. Yet, I often get the same negative response when I suggest them to gardeners, “oh I don’t want azaleas, they’re already all over the place.” I’m always baffled by this, because all
February 23, 2019
The Terrifying Beauty of Spring, And How Crimson-Fire Loropetalum Can Help
With Spring fast approaching, those of us here in this lovely part of the country are faced with a seemingly insurmountable problem: Our homes and gardens may soon be too beautiful! Here is what we know: the vibrant pop of color from our Encore azaleas
February 22, 2019
How to Become a Camellia Collector
There are some things in life that you just can’t get enough of, like good friends, good food, and things that bring you joy. It’s easy to add more friends and food to your life, the two go together so well! However, continually adding things
February 21, 2019
Winter Color Guide
PANSIES Pansies are one of the most popular and recognizable cool weather annuals across the country. Pansies offer charming round flowers that create a pop of color from fall till spring. Pansies and violas have edible flowers frequently used to add unique color to salads
October 27, 2018
Easy Color in the Shade
(3-Minute Read) Tallahassee Summers can be hard to handle. Just going from the house to the car can result in a sweat soaked shirt, for goodness sake! If you love to garden but can’t take the heat, learning to work with shade is a must.
July 10, 2018
Aromatherapy In the Shade
Summer heat has us all running for the shade, but that doesn’t have to be a bad thing. Shady gardens are a great place to expend our horticultural efforts. Read this quick blog to see how easy it is to add sweet fragrance plants to your shady beds. The sense of smell will kick your shady spaces up a notch.
July 2, 2018
5 Cold-hardy Plants with Tropical Flair
Tropical plants are all about being bold. Large leaves, bright colors, and strong textures can’t be overlooked in the home landscape. Most of the plants that meet the tropical description hail from warm climates like rainforests and jungles, so it’s no surprise most of them can’t survive our freezing winter temperatures.
June 27, 2018
Benefits of Reblooming Hydrangeas
When It Comes to Flowers, More is Better! I’ve been watching my stock of hydrangeas the last few weeks with untold anticipation. Every day I take note of which varieties are starting to produce buds and in the last few days I’ve even been able
May 22, 2018
Is it Time to Plant Old-Fashioned Impatiens Again?
Every gardener I know has been a mess over the trouble with old-fashioned Impatiens (Impatiens walleriana). For many decades these colorful flowers adorned the shady spots of gardens around the world. They were one of, if not the easiest annual to grow for most gardeners and we loved them. Then the trouble started.
April 14, 2018
Introduction to Native Azaleas
Native Azaleas offer you the opportunity to add unique, show-stopping beauty to your landscape and help out our local wildlife at the same time. Stunning clusters of trumpet shaped blooms come in a rainbow of pink, red, orange, yellow, and white. Native Azaleas are a
April 4, 2018
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