Fall Leaves and Smiles
Fall days mean beautiful, brisk cool weather, leaves changing color and memories in the making. Stephanie tries to spend as much time as possible outdoors with her grandchildren and picking up leaves is the perfect excuse.
Tips for Designing Fall Arrangements
Learn how to create enchanting fall floral arrangements using flowers, leaves and pumpkins.
Tips for Rain Barrels and Cisterns
Making use of rain water with rain barrels or cisterns is a great way to reduce storm water runoff into streams and eventually the bay. Get some tips for installing and using them.
How to Use Pumpkins with Flowers
Autumn has officially arrived, bringing changing leaf colors and pumpkins, pumpkins, and more pumpkins! Learn how to create delightful fall arrangements using flowers, pumpkins and leaves.
Bulb Time at Behnke’s
Stephanie shares some Behnke history this week with memories of her grandfather, Alfred Behnke, and the huge bulb plantings he had at his home in Burtonsville.
It’s Pumpkin Time 2016!
It’s that time of year again! Get an inside look at the wholesale pumpkin buying process and get tips for cooking different varieties of pumpkins; you could be drinking homemade pumpkin lattes made with real pumpkin!
Mmm-Mmm, Pawpaw: A Tasty Native Fruit
A small, native tree, the pawpaw deserves recognition for its ornamental and environmental attributes alone, but since it also produces delicious, healthy fruit, we think everyone should have one. Read on to learn about the endless possibilities of this small, but mighty tree.
Pines and Needles: All About Conifers
In fall, as summer flowers and deciduous trees and shrubs fade, we look to evergreens to provide interest. Conifers are a huge and varied group of evergreens that can suit any garden. Take a look at many examples of landscape designs that rely on the textural interest of conifers.
Of Monarchs and Milkweed
If you plant them, they will come. Yup, that’s milkweed and monarch caterpillars. Both the caterpillars and a monarch butterfly laying eggs were spotted recently on milkweed growing at Behnke’s.
Fall is for Colorful Fruit!
When we think of fall color, we often think of flowers and foliage, but fruit, specifically berries, deserve a place in your fall color garden. Click through for this extensive list (with photos!) of shrubs with fall berries ranging in color from yellow to purple and everything in between.
Chrysanthemums…Garden Mums…Mums!
Stephanie has a long and intimate history with mums, first growing up at Behnke’s, surrounded by them every fall, then as a wholesale grower of mums for 28 years. Read about her experiences with this iconic fall plant.
Fall…Into Brookside Gardens
Though Brookside Gardens is beautiful any time of the year, it shines in early fall, with remnants of summer color and unique experiences specific to this season. Enjoy Emily’s photo journal of a walk through Brookside in September.