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Directgardening.com offers lots of inexpensive plants, trees and shrubs but many have doubts about the quality of their items. Before i get into that,  I should let readers know that I have ordered from Directgardening.com for 3 straight years now since discovering them and have had good success with 90% of the items I have [...]

Decorative grasses can make a huge impact on your garden.  The trick, of course, is to find the right grass or grass like plant that will do best in zone 7. The thing about zone 7 is that the weather is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get.   [...]

Whoever said  “dirt cheap” never went to Home Depot or Lowes  for garden supplies.  A coworker was talking not too long ago how he spent $700  on dirt for his vegetable garden!
Here are some tips to making the most out of your gardening dollar.
1. Buy plants in small quantities. You don’t need to plant [...]

I have received a lot of emails asking about the Copper King and related pests/diseases. While I have personally never had any issues with any sort of pest harming my Copper King or related Rose of Sharon, I decided to do a bit of research on the matter.
After visiting a local nursery that grows a [...]

One of the things I always notice around here is that everybody practices the monkey see monkey do gardening approach. By this I mean everybody uses the same exact plants in regardless of which neighborhood you visit.  Around here (Nashville) it usually goes something like this in just about every yard:  2+ Bradford pears in [...]