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Tips for the Garden – May 2020
Seasonal lawn and garden tips, plus informational articles about plants, gardening, landscape, lawn care and more!
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- Gardening
- Vegetable Gardening
- 5 Reasons to Warm Up to Cool Vegetables
- Companion Planting
- Cool Vegetables & Frost Tolerance
- EDIBLE ENDEAVORS
- Fall Vegetables – Plan Your Fall Sowing Season
- Forget Soil, Use Straw!
- Garlic – California White
- Grow Your Own Salad Indoors
- Growing Tomatoes
- Intensify Your Veggie Harvest
- Microgreens and Baby Greens
- Microgreens and Sprouts: What is the Difference?
- Plan A Fall Veggie Garden
- Reading a Seed Packet
- Ready to Sprout
- Sow Cover Crops for a Naturally Healthy Garden
- Successive Sowing: Extending Your Season and Maximizing Your Garden’s Harvest
- Taters in a Basket
- Tomato Plant Quirks
- TURN SUMMER HARVESTS INTO WINTER GOLD
- Vegetables – Cool Season
- Vegetables – Starting from Seed
- BEAT THE HEAT WITH EXTREME PLANTS
- Cooking With Herbs
- Flower Power… Attract Birds
- Frost Protection Tips
- Less Work, More Play with easy-care plants
- Need a Friend? 10 Reasons to Pick a Gardener
- Mood-boosting Bacteria Found in Dirt
- Summer Watering Tips
- Nature Friendly Gardening
- Pansy Faces, By Sandi McDonald
- Perennial Picks for the Shade
- Seed Starting Basics
- Seven Flavorful Kitchen Herbs
- Turn Compost Into Potting Soil
- Super-Size It: Large Container Gardens in 3 Easy Steps
- The Budding Gardener
- What Is Miniature Gardening
- Water Garden Tips for Spring
- Vegetable Gardening
- Landscape & Lawn
- “Chap Stick” For Broadleaf Evergreens
- Benefits of Planting Trees
- Create a Cooler Landscape
- Decorative Soil Coverings
- Eight Shrubs for Clay Soil
- Fall is for Planting Trees – 7 Easy Steps to Plant
- Fertilize Lawns in Fall for Winter Protection
- Landscaping – Accenting With Light
- Landscaping for the Dog(s)
- Lawn Aeration
- Makeover Your Sanctuary with 5 Expert Tips
- RESTORING PEACE: Six Ways Nature in Our Lives Can Reduce the Violence in our World.
- Save Water, Save Money, Save Energy
- Selecting Shade Trees – The Great Eight
- The Top 5 Watering Myths
- Think OUTSIDE the Box About WELLNESS:
- Tree Varieties to Consider
- Trees – Give Your Trees a Checkup!
- Weeds and What to Do
- Why Plant a Tree?
- Plant Info
- Annual Plants
- Houseplants
- African Violet
- Aglaonema ‘Lucky Red’
- Aglaonema Plants
- Aloe Vera Plants
- Anthurium Plant
- Bat Flower Plant – Black Bat Plant
- Bromeliad Plants
- Calathea Plant
- Calathea White Fusion
- Calathea Yellow Fusion
- Chinese Money Plant (Pilea peperomioides)
- Cissus discolor (Rex Begonia Vine)
- Create An Indoor Oasis
- Crossandra Plant
- Croton Plants
- Dieffenbachia Plants
- Dracaena Plant
- Featured Plant: Cyclamen
- Fern – Heart Fern Plant
- Ferns – Indoor Fern Plants
- Ficus Tineke (Variegated Rubber Tree)
- Houseplant Winter Care Tips
- Houseplants for a Healthy Home
- Houseplants: Celebrate National Indoor Plant Week – Plant Tips
- How Not to Kill Your Houseplants This Winter
- Incorporating Gardening and Plants Into Your Home Environment
- Insectivore Venus Flytrap And Pitcher Plants
- Lemon Cypress Tree
- Lemon Lime Dracaena Houseplant
- Lipstick Plant
- Low Light Houseplant Spotlight
- Miniature Rose (Houseplant)
- Money Tree (Pachira Aquatica)
- Monstera Plants
- Monstera Thai Constellation
- Moving Houseplants Back Indoors
- Norfolk Island Pine
- Orchid Plants
- Peperomia Plants
- Philodendron – El Choco Red
- Philodendron Micans
- Philodendron Plants
- Philodendron Ring of Fire
- Philodendron White Wizard
- Plant Spotlight: Air Plants
- Plants to Help Us Sleep
- Queen of the Night Plant
- Rosemary Tree
- Shamrock – Oxalis Plant
- Stephanotis floribunda
- Succulents
- Zygocactus (Thanksgiving Cactus)
- Sansevieria (Snake Plant)
- Perennial Plants
- Agastache
- Anemone
- Aster Plants
- Astilbe Plants
- Black-Eyed Susan (Rudbeckia)
- Calamintha nepeta
- Coreopsis (Tickseed)
- Daylily
- Dianthus
- Echinacea (Coneflower)
- Fern Plants (Perennial)
- Fern Plants (Perennial) – Varieties
- Garden Phlox (Tall Phlox)
- Geranium (Cranesbill)
- Geum Cocktail ‘Cosmopolitan’
- Heliopsis ‘Burning Hearts’
- Hosta Plants
- Joe-Pye Weed
- Kniphofia (Red Hot Poker Plant)
- Lavender ‘Munstead’
- Liatris Plants
- Lobelia (Cardinal Flower)
- Nepeta (Catmint)
- Penstemon
- Periwinkle (Vinca minor)
- Rudbeckia Goldsturm (Goldsturm Black Eyed Susan)
- Russian Sage
- Salvia
- Sedum
- Turtlehead Tiny Tortuga
- Water Lily Plants
- Heuchera (Coral Bells)
- Arborvitae – Planet Earth®
- Blueberry Plants
- Mums – Hardy Garden Mum Care
- Nandina – Cool Glow™ Pomegranate
- Perfect Pair of the Week – Let’s Dance® Blue Jangles® Hydrangea and ’Daisy May’ Shasta Daisy
- Perfect Pair of the Week – At Last® Rose and ‘Back to the Fuchsia’ Salvia
- Heuchera – Hot Plants for Partial Shade
- Pets and Toxic Plants
- Hosta La Vista
- Perfect Pair of the Week – Kodiak® Red Diervilla and PRIMO Series Coral Bells
- Plant in Fall to Attract Birds and Pollinators
- Hydrangea – Eclipse® Bigleaf Hydrangea
- Perfect Pair of the Week – Black Lace Elderberry & Decadence Series Baptisias
- Perfect Pair of the Week – Purple Pillar® Rose of Sharon and ‘Tuscan Sun’ False Sunflower
- Birds, Insects & Wildlife
- Birds
- All About Birds – Purple Martins
- All About Birds – Spotlight on Cardinals
- All About Birds: Getting Ready for Nesting Season
- American Goldfinch
- Attract Birds In Winter
- Attracting Birds
- Backyard Bird Secrets: Moving On
- Backyard Birds – Water is the Simple Secret
- Bird Feeding is Wonderful Family Fun!
- Black-Capped and Carolina Chickadee
- Blue Jay
- Bluebird Nest Box Monitoring
- Carolina Wren
- Creating a Hummingbird Garden
- Dark-Eyed Junco
- Downy Woodpecker
- Eastern Bluebird
- How Birds Survive the Winter
- How to Make a Milk Jug Birdfeeder
- Is Your Garden for the Birds?
- Keep a Feeder Up for Migrating Hummingbirds
- Kids Corner – 15 Minutes With Birds
- Make Your Own Birdseed Cakes
- Mourning Dove
- Northern Cardinal
- Ten Reasons Why People Fail to Attract Purple Martins
- The Nature of Nectar
- White-Breasted Nuthatch
- Why Birds Sing
- Why Every Backyard Counts
- Winter Bird Myths
- Winter Bird Watching
- Insects & Control
- Bagworms and Controlling Them
- Cicada – Information and Control
- How to Build a Bee House
- Japanese Beetles and Controlling Them
- Mason Bees – A Gardener’s Best Friend
- Mosquito Repelling Plants
- Mosquitoes and Controlling Them
- Pine Sawflies
- Prepare for “NEW” Pollinators
- Save the Monarch
- Spider Mites and Controlling Them
- Squash Bugs and Controlling Them
- Stink Bugs and Controlling Them
- Tent Caterpillars and Controlling Them
- The Life Cycle of Grub Worms (June and Japanese Beetles)
- Zika Virus Spread by Mosquitoes
- Deer Resistant Plants
- Trees – Give Them a Checkup!
- Wildlife and Washington Tap Water
- Birds
- Fall Articles
- Bedtime for Bulbs
- Bulbs are Just Like Eggs!
- Deer Resistant Flower Bulbs
- Fall Frost is On Its Way
- Fall is for Planting
- Fall Lawn Care
- Improve Your Soil by Raking Less
- Landscape Plants for Fall Color
- Making Your Money Grow
- NOW PLANT, PLANT, PLANT!
- October Lawn & Garden FAQs
- Pansies: Hot Plants for Cold Weather
- Plant Bulbs to Light Up Your Spring
- Protection From Winter Heartaches
- Smart Lawn Care Choices
- The Best Time of Year is Now!
- The Fall Table
- Water Garden Winterizing
- Holiday/Winter
- Amaryllis – Nature’s Beauty in Winter
- Big Beautiful Blooms in Winter!
- Colorful Plants for the Holidays
- Creating Winter Interest in the Garden
- Fresh Greens for the Home
- Holiday Containers for Winter
- Holiday Traditions Worth Continuing
- Living Christmas Trees
- Mini Christmas Tree Houseplants
- Plants That Help Wildlife in Winter
- Poinsettia – Selection and Care Tips
- Poinsettia Care for the Holidays and Beyond
- Recycle Your Christmas Tree
- Thanksgiving or Christmas Cactus – Using Clues to Solve the Mystery
- The Giving Season – Charities To Consider
- The Grandmother Plant
- Winter Analysis of the Landscape
- Events/News
- The Flood of May 2000 at Hillermann’s Quarry
- Hillermann Nursery & Florist – Coming Events
- Hillermann Nursery & Florist is Named to Two Top Green Industry Awards
- Hillermann Nursery & Florist named a Top 100 Independent Garden Center 2019
- Hillermann Nursery & Florist Honored with Teleflora Top 2000 Florist Award
- Hillermann Nursery & Florist named a Top 100 Independent Garden Center
- Hillermann Nursery & Florist Named One of Today’s Garden Center’s “Revolutionary 100”
- Hillermann Nursery & Florist Recognized as Pollinator Pantry Provider
- Hillermann Nursery and Florist Among Retailers Recognized for Best Birding Retailer of the Year Awards at 2016 Wild Bird Expo™!
- Hillermann Nursery and Florist is Named One of Today’s Garden Center’s “Revolutionary 100”
- Gardening is a Verb – Tribute to Horticulturist Cindy Gilberg
- Come Help Our Team Grow!
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