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Long Perennial Border Garden
Annual Flowers

How to Plan a Garden So Something Is Always in Bloom

Photo Courtesy of Susan Martin Growing a beautiful garden where something is always in bloom takes some time to master but is incredibly rewarding in the long run. Here are 10 valuable tips here that will help you along in the process. These are things we’ve learned from our own experience developing our gardens over

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DIY Terrarium Tips

Winter is the perfect time to make a DIY terrarium—a garden under glass—that you can enjoy indoors until it’s time to get back out into your garden again. There are lots of different styles of terrariums to choose from, but they all contain the same basic few ingredients: a clear glass container with or without

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How to Build a Planter Table

Some of the most unique pieces of furniture are often handcrafted. That’s the case with the crate table planter you see here which is made from four repurposed fruit crates and a piece of scrap plywood. It is durable enough to stay out in a screened porch or other dry area year-round and should last

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Flowering Shrubs

8 Plants Pollinators Are Loving Right Now

It’s late August in Michigan and as I am sitting here looking out my window into my garden, I’m seeing an incredible number of bees whizzing by while a beautiful yellow Eastern swallowtail butterfly hangs upside down to feed on my six-foot tall ‘Uchida’ lilies. I am blessed to welcome so many pollinators into my

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Butterfly House
Garden Crossings Garden Center

We Built a Butterfly House!

Here in West Michigan, the “Butterflies are Blooming” event at our local botanical garden is one of the biggest attractions every year in late winter. So, we thought, why not build a butterfly house right here at Garden Crossings? We love watching butterflies and grow many of the nectar and host plants they need, so

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ALLIUM MILLENIUM ONION ORNAMENTAL
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Durable Plants For Landscapes

Allium  ‘Millenium’ Allium ‘Millenium’ is a ball of fun for your garden and landscapes. Standing 15-20 inches tall and 10-15 inches wide, the upright dark glossy green foliage creates a thick mound of color. In mid-summer, loads of ball-shaped flowers emerge. Each lavender flower of Allium ‘Millenium’ can reach up to 2 inches across and

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House Plants

Plants For Your Home Office

Oxalis ‘Charmed Wine’(Shamrock) CHARMED® Wine Oxalis has burgundy-plum, shamrock-shaped leaves, graced with dainty blush-white flowers. The flowers bloom mid spring through late summer, appearing through the foliage. CHARMED® Wine makes a great presentation in shady areas. Oxalis is also adaptable as a houseplant for year-round enjoyment. This easy-care, drought tolerant annual grows best in part

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GOMPHRENA TRUFFULA PINK GLOBE AMARANTH
Annual Flowers

Easy Annuals for Busy Homeowners

My niece loves to garden, and I am so happy to see her passing along that passion to her young children. But with four under the age of 8, tasks like fertilizing and deadheading realistically just aren’t going to get done. She needs beautiful flowers that require very little from her to fill her porch

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ALLIUM SERENDIPITY ORNAMENTAL ONION
Garden Perennials

10 New Perennials for Sun and Shade

Incredible advancements are made in perennials every year, so they are easier to grow and more beautiful for us to enjoy in our gardens. We’ve rounded up a group of ten new perennials we think you’ll love as much as we do, including four unique newcomers for shade. Let’s dive in and take a closer

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Annual Flowers

Mums Galore!

It’s a sure sign of fall when garden mums start popping up in street plantings and store window boxes around town. Decorating with fall blooming mums is a quick and easy way to freshen up your containers with the colors of the season. New this year, we’re offering a broad array of single and double-flowered garden mums for fall delivery. Let’s see what’s in store!

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