Gardening Articles

Tips for Growing Strawberry Plants and Eating Strawberries
Great tips on growing strawberry plants and how to store and ways to eat strawberries. Greenwood Nursery, also, provides a good selection of bare root strawberry plants for shipping during fall and spring. Order your strawberry plants today!

Ground Cover Plants and More as Lawn Substitutes
There are lawn options and planning your lawn is a must or you will be the neighborhood poster yard for weeds. Ground cover plants, ornamental grasses and perennials are popular, but we have more ideas for lawn substitutes.

Making the Garden Safe for Pets and Children
With a little planning, you can include children and pets safely in your garden and landscape designs. Read on for ways to include pets in your landscape and for ideas for children to have play areas.

Gardening with Physical Limitations
How to make gardening easier for those with physical disabilities, whether you garden with arthritis, from a wheelchair or are visually impaired. Maybe you or someone in your household has difficulty getting around in the garden. Help for gardening.

Basic Scare-Crow
Now, we are not talking about a cutesy indoors scarecrow, but one that can live in the garden. Greenwood Online Nursery and Gardens.

Make a weatherstation
It's important to pay attention to the weather in the summer as the weather affects the growth of plants.

Mini-Greenhouse
A great project for kids of all ages - make a mini-greenhouse for almost free!

Bean Tee-Pee
The Tee Pee is easy to construct and they will observe lots of garden goings on while playing in it. Greenwood Online Nursery and Gardens.

Tips for Gardening with Kids
Greenwood Nursery's tips to make gardening with your children enjoyable, and memorable.

Make your own mini Terrarium
A terrarium is fun to make and easy to maintain. You might even want to make yours into a "fairy garden" by adding a few small doll accessories.

9 ways to brighten up your front entrance
Tips for making your front entrance a truly welcoming space.

Best ways to use flowering shrubs and evergreen shrubs
Best ways to use flowering shrubs and evergreen shrubs in garden settings or landscape areas. Planting shrubs is a great way to add color and interest to your landscape. Selecting gardening plants can be frustrating without a garden plan to get start

Favorite Ways to Use Lavender
Use your Hidcote and Munstead lavender plants in late spring and summer culinary dishes such as salads and roasted chicken. Fresh lavender blooms should be submerged into water to release any dirt or insects hanging on. Fresh lavender buds can be

Planting Strawberry Plants
Tips for growing strawberries. Strawberry plants grow best in well drained soil that has been amended with organic matter. Strawberry plants should not be planted in or near soil where these plants have been planted within the past 3 to 5 years.

Garden Plants for Allergy Sufferers
Gardening with allergies can be a wonderful experience with some planning. The low allergy garden is full of beautiful plants that have one thing in common. They are insect pollinated plants which eliminates wind blown pollen.

How to Add Curb Appeal with Foundation Plants
Foundation plants are shrubs and bushes used for planting along homes and buildings to soften their look, enhance curb appeal and tie it to the surrounding landscape.

Hummingbird Plant Magnets

Planting Flowering Shrub Hedges
Beautify your landscape with flowering hedge shrubs that grow tall and will bloom all summer long.

Planting Quick Growing Hedge Plants
Need privacy quickly? Check out these fast growing shrubs for privacy.

Add Life and Color to Your Landscape
Tips for adding garden plants to your landscape. Find out which plants can add the most punch of color and life with little effort. Greenwood Nursery Ideas!

Butterfly bushes - a welcoming habitat for butterflies and hummingbirds
Butterfly bushes are available in a large variety of single colors. Our Butterfly Plants Garden is an instant garden for attracting butterflies and hummingbirds. Smaller size plants, make planting a butterfly garden easy and affordable.

Planting and caring tips for hydrangeas plants
Hydrangea plants are vibrant long-living flowering shrubs that bloom profusely summer through fall. Hydrangea bushes come in wonderful shades of blue, red, white, cream, pink, and purple. Their ability to tolerate wind and salt make them an ideal to

The Perfect Mix of Shade Garden Plants for Your Landscape
There are certain varieties of shade garden plants that grow for more than three years under mottled or full-shaded areas. The good thing is, as these plants flourish in the shades of the neighboring trees, they are well protected from the damage

Tips for Planting Ground Cover Plants
Whether your project requires evergreen ground cover plants or flowering ground cover plants between stepping stones, our online nursery plant catalog offers the best choices for the job.

Vertical Gardening for Home Gardens
Vertical gardening is landscaping or using plants to draw the eye upwards which creates a larger, more airy space. Any space or landscape can benefit from vertical gardening

Gardens in the Movies
Gardens in the movies are so perfect. Iris's cottage in "The Holiday" is my favorite. I see it in summer with roses, lavender and mock orange shrubs.

Top 10 Most Fragrant Garden Plants
Select from our top 10 fragrant garden plants. From fragrant herbs to fragrant perennials to our most fragrant shrubs and fragrant trees.

Tips to Grow Fern Plants in the Outdoors
Plant Fern plants in lightly shaded areas or woodland gardens. They can thrive in the shaded areas to great heights, texture and color.

Plant in Fall for Spring Growth

Protect Your Garden Plants from Frost Damage
Protect your garden plants from frost damage in fall or spring. Step by step instructions on how to prevent frost damage.

What to do in Your Yard Before and After Hurricanes, Storms and Tornadoes
Check lists for how to go about saving their trees or what to do about their lawn. In addition to preparing your dwelling for a hurricane or tropical storm,

Controlling Erosion After Hurricanes and Storms
One of the most common problems after hurricanes, severe storms and wildfire is soil erosion. Controlling soil erosion after wildfires, hurricanes and storms.

Gardening Gift Ideas
Fun and unusual gardening gifts for gardeners. Last minute gift ideas that can be picked up on the way to parties or get togethers.

Growing Hydrangeas
Hydrangeas grow and bloom the best in morning sun with afternoon shade. Don't expect them to do well in heavy shade. The Pee Gee variety is hardy enough to grow in full sun.