To celebrate the Lunar New Year, we want to share an age-old philosophy recommended by The Old Farmer’s Almanac: plan, plant, sow, and harvest your vegetable gardens by the moon! Includes The Almanac’s free planting calendar.
Read MoreWelcome to our 2020 list of Crape Myrtle trees! Find out the height, spread, growth habits, and origins of all the types that can grow here in the surrounding Houston area.
Read MoreWelcome to the Enchanted guide to soil amendments. This list includes fertilizers, weed killers, animal repellents, and more. These raw ingredients can help you grow roses, bulbs, vegetables, fruit trees—anything, really! Also see our Soil List for more amendment products to add volume as well as nutrients to your Texas garden beds.
Read MorePerennials are the workhorse of the summer landscape! This curation of staff favorites exhibits the great variety of textures and colors.
Read MoreSucculents and cacti are native to arid places with little seasonal rainfall. They are low maintenance and drought tolerant which are a couple of reasons succulents are popular plants in both containers and landscapes.
Read MoreWelcome to Enchanted Garden’s 2019 guide to soil. This article includes a complete list of our soil, compost, bed amendments and ingredients.
Read MoreThe following plants prove more successful than others in attracting migrating hummingbirds to the yard. Planting some in your landscape, putting up a feeder, and making your yard pollinator-friendly will turn your home into a rest stop they’ll remember!
Read MoreTaking the correct steps in transplanting a new fruit tree is absolutely essential for the young tree’s survival. We’ve created an easy step-by-step guide for our customers to read before attempting a transplant to avoid any accidental casualties!
Read MoreThere might not be anything that drives you wild more than planting a beautiful new plant in the garden only to wake up the next day and find it munched down to a nub.
Read MoreThere are three major items to consider when choosing a tree: site conditions, such as the amount of space, amount of sun exposure, and soil conditions are the most important things to determine.
Read MoreWhen I had my first child I wanted to make sure she would love being outdoors just as much as I do. I wanted to make all of her experiences outside fun and interesting. That’s when I turned my attention to edible gardens.
Read MoreLandscaping and yard work are tough but rewarding jobs. Weather extremes in southeast Texas can make landscaping and gardening downright frustrating. The heat in the summer is one thing, but we also get the occasional killing frost in the winter. So what can we do?
Read MoreThe health of garden plants depends on the soils composition. Most soils are a combination of three particles: clay, sand, and silt. The particle type that dominates determines many of the properties of your soil.
Read MoreWhile many people may hear about organic gardening and initially write it off as a “fad,” the truth of the matter is that removing unnecessary toxins from our gardens can be an important and easy step toward overall better health.
Read MoreHave you been looking for a long-blooming, evergreen shrub that doesn't freeze and can take the most brutal sunlight? We hear many of our customers voice concern over the supposed difficulty of growing roses but they may well be your new best friend!
Read MoreWhen preparing your home for sale, curb appeal is crucial to a good first impression. Below are just a few ideas that may help.
Read MoreInstagram has quickly become our favorite spot to share our newest arrivals, animal antics and favorite flowers around the nursery. Among some of the most popular plants on Instagram are houseplants. They are the great unifiers of the plant world—experts and novices alike can grow the same species everywhere, from Minnesota to Hawaii, in their kitchen window sill. It is because of this plant-growing kinship that we see the same favorites trending over and over. I
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