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It’s cold outdoors and you are probably already getting tired of winter. At Evergreen Home and Garden Showplace, we have a perfect solution to chase away your winter blues. Come […]

This Saturday, January 10th at 10AM Evergreen H&G Showplace will present an innovative and interesting Make and Take Workshop, Making Babies. The cost of this workshop is $25 but you […]

The holiday season beckons in the near future and we have finally put the garden to bed for the winter. Its time to start working on gardening indoors with houseplants! […]

By Charlie Nardozzi Fall is the perfect time to get your new flower or vegetable garden beds ready. If you are considering starting a new bed in a lawn area […]

By Charlie Nardozzi With the outdoor garden tucked in for the season in most areas, all the gardening attention has moved indoors. Finding winter gardening projects to do with your […]

By Charlie Nardozzi With the holidays on the horizon, one plant that will be featured in many homes is the holiday cactus. This succulent not only offers beautiful holiday color, […]

By Charlie Nardozzi A frost has occurred in many parts of the country, and it’s time to dig and store your tender bulbs such as dahlias and gladiolus. In all […]

By Charlie Nardozzi October means beautiful colors in many of our native forests and landscapes. While much of the attention in autumn is on the beautiful foliage of trees, many […]

Now is the time to plant spring-flowering bulbs in most areas of the country. While we delight in seeing large swaths of daffodils, crocus, and tulips in bloom, many gardeners […]

Amaryllis bulbs form beautiful, large flowers in winter to help remind us of the warmer weather to come. Amaryllis bulbs can also be grown for a number of years and […]

By Charlie Nardozzi Fall is the time to plant spring-flowering bulbs such as tulips, hyacinths, and crocus. While these bulbs are beautiful and a joy to see in spring, other […]

You’re invited to Evergreen’s School of Gardening workshops on Composting in Your Garden this Saturday at 10AM at both of our locations. Ben Hunter, Certified Master Gardener, retired chemist, retired […]

Winter Survivor Pansies are guaranteed to come back next spring. Plant Winter Survivor Pansies now for brilliant color, then enjoy them again next spring. We have many, many colors of […]

By Charlie Nardozzi   Fall is apple time in much of the country. One of the most popular outdoor activities to do with your kids is to go to the […]

By Charlie Nardozzi September can be an overwhelming month in the vegetable garden. With lots of tomatoes, melons, zucchini, and cucumbers still pouring in on top of the greens, roots, […]

By Charlie Nardozzi With fall right around the corner, it’s time to start looking at your herb plants and deciding who stays, who goes, and what you can do to […]

By Charlie Nardozzi Our gardens get lots of fall color from shrubs, trees, and annual and perennial flowers. But you can also use climbing vines to brighten the fall landscape. […]

If your spring/summer planters need to be revitalized you have a great opportunity to get them replanted FREE next week. Starting on Thursday at 9AM, at either of our locations […]

By Charlie Nardozzi With school back in session in most areas, kids are arriving to find the gardens they planted in spring in full production. With some planning, you can […]

Now that the summer flower season is coming to an end and cooler temperatures are on the way, many gardeners in East Tennessee flock garden centers in early fall browsing […]

By Charlie Nardozzi The vegetable harvest is coming on strong, so this is the perfect time to engage your kids in a little garden eating and cooking. One fun and […]

By Charlie Nardozzi Rudbeckias, or black-eyed Susans, are a favorite late-summer wildflower in many areas. These plants are easy to grow, naturalize quickly, and give your yard or meadow years […]

Charlie Nardozzi We all love the beautiful annual and perennial flowers of summer that our gardens are producing. And it’s always a treat to cut some of the best blooms […]

By Charlie Nardozzi In summer, certain plant diseases really take off in the garden. One is powdery mildew. This fungal disease loves the cooler nights we can get in the […]

A mild summer across much of the nation’s heartland has provided optimum growing conditions for the nations corn and soybean crops. Pair that with high-yield seeds and other new farming […]

By Charlie Nardozzi With more and more people growing blueberries as edible landscape plants, questions are emerging about how to care for them. While blueberries are a relatively easy crop […]

By Charlie Nardozzi Basil is booming in gardens this time of year, and it is hard to keep up with the harvest. While tossing basil in pasta, adding it to […]

Hornworms are large, ominous looking insects that love to feed on tobacco and tomao family crops. They can grow up to 5 inches long and have a hor” on one […]

We often get spoiled in spring by all the flowering shrubs in the landscape. Forsythia, lilacs, rhododendrons, azalea, spirea, weigela, and mock orange are just some of the shrubs that […]

Mint is a groundcover that often gets overlooked. Because of its reputation for being an aggressive spreader, many gardeners avoid planting it in the yard. However, if you plant mint […]

Many gardeners love roses but don’t want the fuss of taking care of them. Hybrid tea and floribunda roses, in particular, require regular fertilizing, pest control, and winter protection in […]

While most herbs are grown for their fragrance and for culinary and medicinal uses, rosemary has the additional benefit of being a beautiful landscape plant that is a great shrub […]

With summer in full swing, your baskets and flowers are probably getting a bit tired looking. They are probably in great need of a little bit of maintenance! Just as […]