Bob’s Blog
Planting Containerized Trees
Here at Bob’s we stock a wide selection of containerized trees. Choosing the right tree for your landscape can be a tough choice. Are you looking for a fruit tree, shade tree, or beautiful blooms? However, once you get your tree home, planting it takes some elbow grease, but the process is quite simple.
Teaching Kids to Garden
From facility tours for high school and college horticulture students to speaking at elementary schools and helping with school gardens, we know that teaching kids about gardening is very important.
Growing a Meadow Garden
Picture the countryside in a Victorian drama, an orchard in the 1700s, or … the Shire. Who wouldn’t want to take off their shoes and relax like a hobbit?
Choosing Plants That Fit
Shopping for plants can be a bit disorienting if you don’t have a definite plan of what you want to buy. There’s annuals and perennials, tons of colors, and hundred other options. Each year I come up with a color scheme for my landscape and work from there. The next thing I consider is the bed locations, container sizes, and the heights that would look best. There’s tons of other factors you can consider when planning. In this post I want to look at just the container size options we offer, and the applications they are best suited for in your garden.
Learning from Plant Astronauts and Ancient Farmers
“That’s one small sprout for plant, one giant leaf for plantkind.”
Indoor Aquatic Plants
One of the most common problems I see when it comes to growing plants indoors is overwatering. What if there was a way to eliminate this problem entirely? Aquatic plants are impossible to overwater because they grow in water!