Thanks to Susan Reimer’s article about raised beds in the Baltimore Sun, we’ve gotten lots of questions about the ones we’re selling, and here are the answers! How they’re made They’re made by local Amish carpenters based on a design…
Last week’s night-time temperatures in the low 30s had the Potomac store staff scrambling to tuck in our tender young plants under their blankies! We’re not out of the cold weather woods yet, either; our frost-free safety date here in…
We’re pleased as punch to show off our new reusable (“eco-friendly”) bags, sporting custom designs by two creative grade-school students. To solicit designs we asked elementary schools local to our Beltsville and Potomac stores to submit designs that reflected the…
Here’s a worthy cause we’re supporting – it’s called Agricultural Literacy and it means teaching kids about where food comes from and how it grows. They’re urging Marylanders to donate to school media centers the wonderful (and favorably reviewed) new…
Next up in our series of garden club and plant society features is the venerable and popular-as-ever Takoma Horticultural Club! History The Takoma Horticultural Club is believed to be (and no one has stepped forward to challenge this, yet) the…
Our recent Open House in Beltsville was a great fun for us and seemed to be for the large crowd of attendees, too. So thanks to everyone who participated – all the vendors and terrific volunteers, like the two Master…
One Can Never Have Too Many Redbuds Memories of Spring One of my favorite springtime flowering trees is the redbud, Cercis canadensis. Perhaps it is because, when I was growing up, we did not have a redbud in our yard…
One of the oldest and best loved garden blogs in the D.C. area is written by an old friend of Behnkes – Chris Upton, currently the horticulturist for the Asia Collection at the National Arboretum. He named it 1003 Gardens…
This is the first of many articles here on the blog featuring garden clubs, plant societies and Master Gardener groups in the Metro area – all groups we’re inviting to our Garden Day to Benefit the Friends of Brookside Gardens…
Camellias Tis the season when the spring camellias are blooming. Of course some camellia species have been blooming since September of last year. With the overlapping of various cultivars, a show of camellias can last from September through April. It…
Here’s the first of a new feature here on the blog – showcasing gardens of some of our customers – and what better place to start than the famous garden of Carole Galati? Last summer it graced the cover…
