Specific Plant Species Tips:

• If your hydrangea does not bloom for you, you may be pruning away the wood that it sets buds on if you are pruning at the wrong time of year.  Protect hydrangea from winter kill by burlapping or cover with a tomato cage and fill the cage with a lot of leaves.
• Rose of Sharon Hibiscus plants leaf out very late in spring or sometimes early summer.  Do not assume it did not winter over if you do not see any green in the spring.  Be patient.
• Superpetunia and Wave petunias are very similar.  They will both spread about 3 feet, but the Superpetunia has a little more top growth to it.  Try Whisper petunia for a change.  It is also a spreader, but has quite a bit of top growth and also has smaller blooms.
• Fantasy petunia is a great no-pinch variety that clumps and mounds instead of getting tall and leggy like regular petunias.  It has very cute little blooms.
• Petunias can tolerate cold weather.
• Stella D’oro is the #1 selling daylily.  It’s the yellow one that blooms all summer.
• Mosquito plant is actually a scented geranium.
• Geraniums need to be picked at the bottom of the stem to keep flowering.  Do not just pop off the flower head.  It will not reflower.
• Marigold heads can be popped off without the stem.
• If your impatien leaves turn yellow, give them a dose of fertilizer.  They are heavy feeders.
• That solid mass of color you see in early spring around people’s trees, etc. is usually creeping phlox.  It is a perennial.
• The cute weeping tree in our parking lot sign area is a snow fountain cherry.  Of course, we sell it! J
• There are Hostas that can withstand quite a bit of sun.  Try a Patriot Hosta.
• For a red, white and blue color medley in your garden, try petunias or verbena.  They come in all three colors.
• One of the best annuals to attract hummingbirds is Nicotania (flowering tobacco).  It is also wonderfully fragrant.  Try butterfly bush (buddleia) or Butterly plant (asclepias) if you prefer a perennial to attract butterflies.
• Make sure to get a clematis care guide from us at the register to learn if your clematis variety needs pruning and how to do it.
• When planting clematis, apply 4-6 inches of mulch around the base of the plant, but keep 4-6 inches away from the stem. 
• Sorry!  All clematis like a lot of sun!  There is not a clematis available for full shade.
• Yes, some people insist they have been growing impatiens in full sun for years, even though impatiens are a shade or part shade plant (usually needing protection from hot or afternoon sun).
• If the leaves of your geraniums are turning red, it is from cold weather.  If they are turning yellow, they are too dry.  Just pull the discolored leaves off.
• New Guinea impatiens can occasionally die or melt off.  That is the nature of the plant.  It is not something you are doing. J
• Coleus does not like damp or cold.
• Do not let lobelia dry out.  If you and it shrivels up, cut it back.  It will recover if cut.
• Yes, pansies will bloom all summer into frost.  Keep them deadheaded at the bottom of the stem when they die off.  If they get tall and spindly in hot weather, shear them down (the entire plant) until they are 2 or 3 inches tall and they will bloom back short and sweet in about 3 days.  Shear as often as necessary.