Cyclamen – Julie’s Featured Plant – available at Hoffmann Hillermann Nursery and Florist. Staff photo.
December 12, 2023 Hoffmann Hillermann Newsletter
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!
- Tips & Info
- Kids
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