Dennis’ 7 Dees Gardening Digest
Welcome to our Gardening Blog—your go-to resource for garden design tips, plant care advice, and seasonal inspiration.
Written by industry experts, our articles cover everything from indoor and outdoor plant selection to landscaping trends and timely gardening tasks. Check back often for fresh updates to help your outdoor space thrive year-round! We also offer FREE classes and paid workshops to help you succeed in your garden, landscape, and home.
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...
Selecting the Best Tomato Variety
Each Spring, we stock and carry a large selection of tomato varieties at our garden centers including heirloom and hybrid tomatoes with organic and...
The Importance of Green in the Workplace
The colors that paint the world around us have been proven to influence our mood and our behaviors. We are so deeply connected to color—the design of an...
The Latest in Houseplant Trends: Is Pink the New Green?
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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...
The Green Industry: Creating a Better Environment to Live, Work, and Play
The green industry is much more than people growing, planting, selling, and maintaining plants—it is an art, a profession, a hobby, a science, and a...
Incorporating Pantone’s Colors of the Year into Your Home & Office
After the crazy 2020 we’ve all experienced, Pantone (a universal language of color) thought we could use two colors for 2021’s “color of the year” and they...
Is the Future of Landscape Design Lawn-Free?
Beautiful landscape design has long been associated with luscious green grass, vibrant flowers, and abounding trees. However, more and more property owners...
How to Create Your Own Living Fence With Hedgerows
Sometimes called windbreaks, shelter belts, or conservation buffers, hedgerows are layers of trees, shrubs, flowers, and grasses that create living fences...
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...
Emergency Care for Indoor Plants During a Winter Power Outage
If a recent winter storm has left you without power or heat in your home, your indoor tropical plants may be shivering right alongside you. Most houseplants...
DIY Moss Poles for Indoor Plant Support
Trailing plants are fun to hang from macramé or display on high shelves, but for many of our favorite trailing plants, there is another way to grow... up!...
Gardening to Attract Birds
The Basic Elements of Habitat Food: seeds, nectar, insects, fruits, and berries Water: bird bath, fountain, water feature, stream/pond, sprinkler...
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...
Pruning 102: Pruning for Shaping & Structure
Learn how and when to prune common woody landscape plants to improve health and productivity, and to enhance their beauty.Review of Pruning Basics...
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....
Trees in the Landscape: Summer & Fall Focus
Summer has been long and hot, and every Summer and Fall we notice how important trees are in the landscape this time of year. Whether you’ve passed the time...
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
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...
Setting the Stage for a Successful Container Performance
The weather is warming up, the bees are buzzing, and now is the perfect time to freshen up your exterior containers! Summer annuals, vegetables and herbs, and...
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...
Celebrating 40 Years with Joe Kerzel
Joe Kerzel is a salesman at our Lake Oswego Garden Center, and back in March of 2019, he celebrated 40 years of service with Dennis’ 7 Dees! His charming...
Indoor Pots with No Holes… What’s the Deal?
“Why doesn’t this pot have drain holes?” is a question we hear quite often. Modern indoor plant containers are being designed without drainage holes and are...