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.
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.
If you have been by our garden center you just might have seen the Behnke elves hard at work, sweating up a storm in the Christmas Shop.
Summer is a great time to find affordable, beautiful garden flowers! See Evelyn’s step-by-step photos for three different arrangements using store-bought flowers and get her tips for making them last longer.
Working hard or hardly working? Planting trees isn’t as hard as you might think…especially when you get your significant other to do it! Read about how Stephanie “helped” plant a small red oak, pin oak and red maple.
Picking fresh produce in the fall always feels like such a treat. Even though leaves are starting to change, your veggie garden still has plenty of time left to produce delicious vegetables. Help your organic garden produce more than ever this fall with these four tips from The Espoma Organic Company.
It might not feel like it, but fall is just around the corner! Check out our favorite fall-blooming annuals that will give you big-impact color from now until frost.
Tree-sized crape myrtles are ubiquitous, but after many years of admiring an old, shrub-sized crape myrtle growing at Behnke’s, Stephanie bought one for her own home. Read about her experiences with this beautiful, late-season bloomer.
About a year ago, Behnke’s installed a rain garden as one of seven examples at the nursery demonstrating what you can do to receive a rebate with the Prince George’s County Rain Check Rebate program. Read on to learn about our garden, the plants in it and its upkeep. Included are many helpful links for more about rain gardens.
It’s the time of year when we go out to our gardens and see all the vegetables that need to be dealt with. One can only eat so many fresh tomatoes, squash, or peppers, but you have options for preservation. Read what Stephanie does with her extra sweet and hot peppers.
We’ve all been there: for one reason or another, there have been times we haven’t been able to spend as much time in the garden as we would like. For Emily, a tonsillectomy has kept her physically unable to participate in her summer garden. Read how her plants reinvigorated her and how nature has been integral to her healing.
One of the additions to our display gardens this year has been beds of zinnias. Now at their peak, we are offering them as fresh bouquets. Cut and arranged each morning, our Vice President, Stephanie, has become a regular customer.