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Plant Nutrition: Fertilizing Basics

Plant Nutrition: Fertilizing Basics

Plants "eat" sunlight to create energy through a process called photosynthesis—the roots take up water from the soil, the leaves absorb carbon dioxide from...

New & Noteworthy Plants for 2022

New & Noteworthy Plants for 2022

Each year the National Garden Bureau selects an annual, perennial, bulb crop, edible, and shrub as "Year of " plants, plus a houseplant for this year. Plants...

Magnolias for Small Gardens

Magnolias for Small Gardens

Magnolia trees come in a multitude of shapes, sizes, and flowering types, and many of them are perfect for growing in small, urban gardens. This is an ancient...

Hooray for Heucheras

Hooray for Heucheras

While most of our landscape plants slumber through the winter, there are a few who thrive during the colder months. For steady, reliable color in the garden,...

The Benefits of Biophilia

The Benefits of Biophilia

Spending a lot of time indoors? With changing seasons and more extreme weather events, many of us are spending more time than ever indoors and somewhat...

How to Care for Ferns Indoors

How to Care for Ferns Indoors

As Pacific Northwesterners, we have a soft spot in our hearts for ferns. When we add them into our homes and dwell amongst their feathery fronds, we can’t...

Improving Soil Health

Improving Soil Health

The single most valuable investment in your home landscape is soil improvement—healthy soil means healthy, productive, beautiful plants! Soil that is healthy...

Summer Landscape Design Ideas

Summer Landscape Design Ideas

With warm weather beckoning you outside and cooler nights calling for family and friends to gather, summer may just be the absolute best time of year to enjoy...

Alocasia Care Guide

Alocasia Care Guide

Plants in the alocasia genus are known for their stunningly large leaves that feature an arrowhead shape and gorgeous vein patterns.  One of the reasons we...

There’s No Place Like Home

There’s No Place Like Home

As an owner of Dennis' 7 Dees, Dave Snodgrass takes great pride in his company, and his passion for landscaping and plants is unmatched. A few years ago, he...

How to Care for a Cactus

How to Care for a Cactus

Cacti may be one of the most underrated and unique plants in the houseplant world.  Although often confused with succulents, cacti are completely different...

Front Yard Landscape Renovation

Front Yard Landscape Renovation

A crumbling brick wall, drainage challenges, and outdated plantings were just not going to do for this Dennis’ 7 Dees landscape designer's home. Since...

Anthurium Care Guide

Anthurium Care Guide

A beautiful and eccentric cousin to the philodendron, anthuriums are a favorite plant genus among houseplant collectors for their unique, veined leaves and...

Warm Weather Planting Tips

Warm Weather Planting Tips

Here we are in early June and temperatures have already reached over 90 degrees! The excitement of planting may be tempered by the need to keep plants...

How to Care for Hoyas

How to Care for Hoyas

Hoyas, also known as wax plants, have grown in popularity due to their lust-worthy vines, star-like flowers, and ease of care. Hoyas are vining plants that...

Backyard Bouquets

Backyard Bouquets

For many of us, our daily lives are fast-paced, hectic, and demanding. It can often be a challenge to feel like we have time to properly take care of...

Complete Calathea Care Guide

Complete Calathea Care Guide

With their bold stripes, patterns, and colors, calathea have become one of the most popular tropical plants to have in your home. However, they also have a...

Creating Your Own Terrarium

Creating Your Own Terrarium

What’s all the fuss about terrariums? Terrariums are mini masterpieces that you can enjoy throughout the year; they are easy to make and even easier to...

Versatile & Colorful Coleus

Versatile & Colorful Coleus

Although flowers are usually the stars of our summer containers and landscape plantings, foliage is also an important element that provides contrast and...

Mounting Indoor Plants to Wood

Mounting Indoor Plants to Wood

Plants on bookshelves, floor plants, countertop and coffee table plants, plants hanging from the ceiling… so many ways to display them! If you are like me and...

Basic Indoor Plant Propagation

Basic Indoor Plant Propagation

Often, there may be more than one way to propagate a specific plant. The ideal time to propagate is during the growing season (March through September). Using...

What Are Aroids?

What Are Aroids?

Botanically speaking, several of our favorite houseplants all belong to the same family, but in many ways look different from one another. Plants included in...

Tomato Tasting 2020

Tomato Tasting 2020

With so many festivals and events cancelled in 2020, it should come as no surprise that we will not be holding our annual Tomato Tasting Festival this year....

All About Outdoor Ferns

All About Outdoor Ferns

Most perennial ferns are understory plants and cannot tolerate very high light levels. As with tropical ferns, the same plant will have lush, dark green...

Entertaining in the Garden

Entertaining in the Garden

I just have to say, I really love my garden. Sure, I have my share of bugs and slugs, weeds, and thugs—there is plenty of imperfection, but I see that as part...

Carnivorous Plant Care

Carnivorous Plant Care

There once was a clever plant that swallowed a fly... and thought it was delicious! There are places in the world where the soil is so poor that plants have...

Vines in the Garden

Vines in the Garden

Discover the right vines for your garden space and learn how to best grow and support them! 3 Basic Growth Styles: Clinging, Twining & Climbing with...

Plants that Make Scents

Plants that Make Scents

One common request from garden designers is to engage our senses in order to enhance the entire experience and leave a lasting impression. Bright, colorful...

Privacy Screens & Hedges

Privacy Screens & Hedges

Do you feel like you've been gardening in a "fish bowl" or providing entertainment for the neighbors? Making a space that feels private and intimate in your...

Spring Lawn Care

Spring Lawn Care

Because of our cool, rainy winters and acidic native soil, your lawn may require a “spring tune-up” to help it look its best. After a little moss control and...

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