Coneflowers: A comprehensive guide to echinacea
Coneflowers (Latin: echinacea) can benefit your landscape design and offer healthful benefits. Read our growing and care guide to learn how.
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Fertilizer Labels: Understanding what N-P-K means
Do you know how to read fertilizers or need some help understanding what N-P-K means. This article explains iin detail how to understand it.
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9 Benefits of hiring a professional lawn care service
Hiring a professional lawn care service provider (ahem, like Tayloe’s Lawn Care Services) may offer more value than you imagined. Here’s why.
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Gas Lawn Mower Winterization: A step-by-step guide to proper fall maintenance
Winterizing a gas lawn mower (push or riding model) can help extend its life and save you from costly breakdowns. Here’s how to do it.
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Tulips: Planting and care guide for spring color
Tulips are an all-time springtime favorite – but they require fall planting. Read this ultimate guide to growing and caring for them.
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Bradford Pear Trees: Why you should avoid planting them
Bradford Pear trees may be lovely in the springtime. But they are not a North American species – here’s why you should avoid them.
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Landscaping Fabric: What are the cons?
Landscaping fabric is well-loved for its ability to supress weeds. But it’s also worth knowing the downsides to weed control fabric.
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Yard Tools: How (and why!) you should do fall maintenance
It’s important to clean up and perform basic maintenance on your manual and power lawn tools before you store them away for the winter.
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10 North American native species trees to plant
North American native species trees offer beauty and need little care – and protect local pollinators and mammals. Learn our ten favorites.
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Red Spider Lily: A unique addition to your landscape
Learn about a unique, red flower that blooms in the late summer or early fall – the red spider lily, Lycoris radiata. It is so gorgeous!
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Compost leaves this fall for natural fertilizer next year
Read why you might want to try to compost leaves instead of trashing them this fall – and learn how to make a wonderful natural fertilizer.
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Container Gardening: Getting started guide and the best food plants to try
Container gardening is one of the best ways to grow robust flowers, vegetables, and herbs. Read this guide to learn how you can succeed.
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Carrots: How to grow them in the ground or containers
Carrots are a super popular, tasty veggie that you can grow quickly and easily in the ground, deep pots, or growing bags. Here’s how.
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Snow Peas: A planting and care guide
Snow peas are an easy-growing, delicious, nutritious plant to grow in a cool season garden (spring or fall). Here’s how to do it.
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Butterfly Bush: A colorful, pollinator-attracting perennial shrub
The butterfly bush, known scientifically as Buddleja (or Buddleia) is a colorful, low-care perennial shrub that will draw healthy pollinators your yard.
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