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Bring Houseplants Outside This Summer!

Bring Houseplants Outside This Summer!

Thinking of moving your houseplants outside this summer? You can create a lush oasis by moving some of your indoor plants outside during the warmer months. However, your plants will need to gradually adjust to their new environment and choosing the right location...

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Perennials – What’s in Bloom!

LAVENDER Lavender is in full bloom here at Farmington Gardens. A great choice for the home landscape, lavender is both heat and drought tolerant and pest and disease resistant. They thrive in full sun and prefer moderately-fertile, well-drained soils. We have a nice...

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Pruning Evergreen Azaleas and Early Spring Bloomers.

Pruning Evergreen Azaleas and Early Spring Bloomers.

Nothing can get a gardener more excited than those first blooms of spring! When the blooms are gone it means summer is just around the corner. It also means it is time to prune those early spring bloomers. Pruning too late, or too early in some cases, you will most...

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Meet Jude! Our new Landscape Designer!

Meet Jude! Our new Landscape Designer!

Still relatively new to Oregon, Jude and her family relocated to the PNW from the San Francisco Bay Area a couple years ago. Jude, who grew up in an agricultural area of rural England, got her start taking horticulture classes at San Francisco City College, and very...

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Mason Bees! Amazing Native Spring Pollinators

Mason Bees! Amazing Native Spring Pollinators

The Blue Orchard mason bee, Osmia lignaria, is a docile bee native to the Pacific Northwest. Of the 4,000 bee species native to North America, mason bees, also known as solitary bees, are among the easiest to raise, while also being gentle and amazing pollinators....

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Tillandsia! Caring for your Air Plants!

Tillandsia! Caring for your Air Plants!

Commonly known as air plants, Tillandsia is the largest genus of evergreen, perennial flowering plants in the Bromeliaceae family. There are around 650 different species!   Native to the West Indies, Mexico, and much of Central and South America, these intriguing...

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Conifer Spotlight! New Arrivals!

Conifer Spotlight! New Arrivals!

Considering a conifer? These beautiful landscape staples add year-round structure and color and life-long beauty and interest.  Our very knowledgeable tree guy John, has selected a few unique conifers that just arrived to share with you; • Pinus bungeana (Lacebark...

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Living & Fresh Cut Holiday Trees 2021

Living & Fresh Cut Holiday Trees 2021

LIVING CHRISTMAS TREES Add more greenery and wildlife habitat to your landscape year-round, with a living Christmas tree! Here is a list of evergreen trees that we commonly carry that would work well; COLORADO SPRUCE, Picea pungens 'Baby Blue','Bakeri' , Fat Albert',...

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2021 Holiday Market Vendors

2021 Holiday Market Vendors

15th Ct. Design Aliymai Studios Ammi's Art Angie's Angels Ave's Breads Bathena Body Shop, LLC Berho Bros. Boni Dutch Cascade Made/Refined Robin Claire's Essentials cOOkie mOnsterZ Desert Sparkle Designs Douglas Frierott Photography Fein Lavender Forest Whimsy Glenn...

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