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Creating A Deer-Resistant Landscape: Tips For Protecting Your Garden

Creating A Deer-Resistant Landscape: Tips For Protecting Your Garden

Fortunately, there are several strategies you can employ to create a deer-resistant landscape and protect your garden from becoming a buffet. From choosing the right plants to using protective measures like deer netting and repellents, here’s how you can keep your landscape safe from deer browsing.

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Learn About Lichens: The What, Why, & Hows All Homeowners Need To Know

Learn About Lichens: The What, Why, & Hows All Homeowners Need To Know

What are these little green things growing on the bark of my trees? They are Lichens, and here’s what homeowners need to know.

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Exploring The 5 P’s Of Fruit Trees: Your Comprehensive Guide

Exploring The 5 P’s Of Fruit Trees: Your Comprehensive Guide

Growing your own fruit is far easier than you think using and understanding the 5 P’s of fruit growing. Together let’s embark on a journey through the 5 P’s: planting, pruning, preventing pests, pollinating, and picking. These pillars form the foundation of successful fruit tree cultivation, ensuring bountiful yields and thriving orchards. So, grab your gardening gloves, and let’s dig in!

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Benefits of a Raised Bed Garden

Benefits of a Raised Bed Garden

Raised Bed Gardens are all the rage these days. What are they and why are they so great? Read on to learn why we love raised bed gardens and how you can make your own!

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12 Gardening Tools Every Gardener Wants (and Bonus Gift Ideas!)

12 Gardening Tools Every Gardener Wants (and Bonus Gift Ideas!)

Gardeners don’t need much to get the job done, but there are certain tools that will make gardening even easier to enjoy. Read on to learn the top tools every plant enthusiast will love, and bonus gift ideas too!

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Why We Love Bats (And You Should Too)

Why We Love Bats (And You Should Too)

Bats are perhaps one of the most misunderstood animals. While their fanged features and association with the Halloween season give them an ominous first impression, these winged creatures are some of our garden’s biggest helpers.

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Gardening Hacks Found in the Kitchen

Gardening Hacks Found in the Kitchen

What do cinnamon, coffee grounds, and eggshells have in common? They are all used as natural solutions to common garden and houseplant problems!

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Pollinators: The Birds, the Bees, and the Butterflies

Pollinators: The Birds, the Bees, and the Butterflies

Pollination is the act of moving pollen grains from one flower to another in order to fertilize and eventually produce fruit and seeds. While pollen can be carried from flower to flower by wind, it is more often carried by insects and other animals which rely on these plants for nutrients. Read More…

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How to: Overwinter Your Annuals

How to: Overwinter Your Annuals

Annuals offer fast growing, bright blooms, if only for a single season. When cold weather arrives, we tend to say farewell to our beloved annuals until we can replace them the next year. But what if we didn’t have to? Read more…

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Pandemic Plants—How to Care For Houseplants When Returning to Work

Pandemic Plants—How to Care For Houseplants When Returning to Work

As the world slowly crawls its way back to an upright position, and we all return to our in-office jobs, there are ways to ensure your houseplants thrive, even if you aren’t around all day to care for them.

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All About Creating A Green Privacy Screen In Your Garden

All About Creating A Green Privacy Screen In Your Garden

As an alternative to traditional fencing, green screening makes use of plants, such as privacy trees, to form a natural barrier around an outdoor space. Privacy trees are low maintenance and typically of the evergreen variety, growing at times well over 20 feet tall and, because of their height and density, succeed in creating a natural sound, wind, and sight screen. Beyond their practical use, the rich foliage of privacy trees add a bit of charm and character to an outdoor living area, making your space all the more scenic. Read more…

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How To: Preserve Your Cut Hydrangea Flowers

How To: Preserve Your Cut Hydrangea Flowers

The one thing that can be tricky when handling cut Hydrangea flowers is keeping them from wilting. Unfortunately, Hydrangea flowers wilt easily, but there are a few steps you can take to avoid this! Learn how to properly cut, care for, and revive your hydrangea flowers and enjoy them in your home. Want to know how to dry Hydrangea flowers? Read more…

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Our Favorite Deer-Resistant Perennial Plants

Our Favorite Deer-Resistant Perennial Plants

Your ornamental plants, flowers, and shrubs in your garden should be eye candy, not the candy store for the local deer population. Although it is important to note, it is impossible to completely deer-proof a garden; you can do your best to fill it with plants known for being the least desirable to these furry forest creatures. Not only are deer-resistant perennials resistant to deer, but because they are, you increase your chances of escaping pest damage.

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Our Top 10 Pet-Friendly Houseplants

Our Top 10 Pet-Friendly Houseplants

We all love the look houseplants provide in our home, but many species can be toxic to animals like cats and dogs, or as we like to call them, your “Furry Friends.” Pets are pretty much unpredictable, and you never know when they might get a sudden urge to munch on a leaf or two of your beloved houseplants. Check out our top 10 pet-safe houseplants offered at Patuxent Nursery.

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