Planting & Care

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Here is practical planting and growing information intended to help you get your new plants off to a good start. If you are an experienced gardener, you might want to go directly to our Growing Guides and search for cultural instructions for specific plants that we sell.

When Your Order Arrives: How to handle dormant plants, bareroot plants, actively growing plants. What to do if you can't plant right away. Your plants are living, breathing things and can't remain in the packing box for weeks, but we understand that life sometimes interferes with our good intentions.

Soil Preparations: How and why. If you can prepare the soil before your order arrives, so much the better.

Growing in Containers: Planting, feeding, grooming annuals in containers. Growing standards.

Planting: How to handle bareroot and potted plants, whether dormant or actively growing.

Planting bareroot Roses: Planting Roses. Aftercare: feeding, watering, pruning, overwintering. Includes advice on growing and overwintering Standard Roses.

After Care: Fertilizing, watering, pruning, dealing with pests and diseases, winter protection.

Note to Southern Gardeners: Our gardening experience has come from the Northeast, but we have culled some advice for gardeners in South.

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