The Strader's Blog

Have you noticed how a container garden can really jazz up a front entryway, back deck or porch? Perhaps you’ve thought twice about including this…

Flowers are more than just the beautiful beds, colorful borders, or attractive containers that make up your garden and landscape. Edible flowers can also be…

Water is critical for a healthy garden and landscape, but how much water is too much, how much isn’t enough and how much is just…

All living creatures, including plants and flowers, have expected lifespans. Recognizing the differences between annuals, perennials, and biennials can help you determine the life expectancies…

You don’t need acres of space to grow a thriving vegetable garden. In fact, growing vegetables in pots can be very productive and bring a…

Spring is the ideal time to spruce up your lawn. After a long winter, you can easily see where any bald, bare or thin patches…

Spring bulbs faithfully reappear at the most advantageous time – after a long, cold winter, just when we’re longing for bright colors to relieve the…

Hybrid hellebores bring us all sorts of happiness. These are one of the first plants to bloom in the late winter and early spring and…

Hybrid hellebores bring us all sorts of happiness. These are one of the first plants to bloom in the late winter and early spring and…

It’s early spring – time to survey the damage that winter has produced. In some Winters, shrubs may still be hiding under piles of frozen…