Gardener's Notes

Blog Entries - Mar. 2019

Great Blue Heron

Herons and Hellebores

March 27, 2019

At GPF Maineville, this time of year the mornings promise to be crisp, the herons promise to be cantankerous and the hellebores promise to inspire the curious gardener in us all.   From the edge of our perennial

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Spring Spring

March 22, 2019  |  Endo-dormancy, Spring, Time Change

  Benjamin Franklin is credited with the concept of Daylight Savings Time, the basic idea to make the best use of the daylight hours by shifting the clocks forward in spring and backward in fall.  This practice has

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Fire Chief

Fire Chief Arborvitae

March 11, 2019

This month’s featured plant is perfect for borders, perennial gardens, or in any landscape bed. The fire chief arborvitae is a low maintenance shrub what stays low to the ground and in a ball shape with little to no

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Snow cleared lane between greenhouses.
Snow cleared lane between greenhouses.

The Secret Life of Greenfield

March 1, 2019  |  Greenhouse, Planting Perennials, Spring

Spring at a Grower/Retailer of Plants is a strange and wonderful whirlwind. Every job is done in one of two extremes...cold or hot.  We go from high stepping through eight inches of compacted snow to stepping into a

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