What! Christmas Already?
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.
Tips for Arranging Summer Flowers
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.
How to Plant a Tree
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.
Fall is for Planting: Plant and Pick Fast-Growing Veggies and Herbs Now
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.
Fall Bloomers
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.
The Beautiful Pocomoke Crape Myrtle
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.
Rain Garden at Behnke’s is One Year Old
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.
Pick a Peck of Peppers!
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.
Absence Makes the Garden Grow…
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.
Beautiful Cut Flowers
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.
All About Summersweet
This easy-going, underused native shrub deserves more attention. Learn what makes this sweet-smelling shrub so special.
Attracting Wildlife with Water Features
Water features provide us refreshing sounds, visual interest and the opportunity to grow different plants, but for wildlife they provide much more. From a simple birdbath to a pond with a waterfall, learn what you can do for wildlife and your senses alike.