Get your yard and garden ready for spring with these 6 easy steps. These tasks are easy if done before mid-March while plants and weeds are dormant. Cut back Roses, Grasses, and Summer-Flowering Shrubs before new growth begins. Knockout and other shrub roses are usually cut back to 12″ tall. Hybrid Tea and David Austin […]

Whether planting in the ground or combining in a planter, annuals offer so many options in color, form, size, and texture.  So much so that it is overwhelming.  Here are 10 annuals used in combinations that are proven to work, based on our own experience at Longfellow’s and in Alice’s personal garden: Lantana ‘Landmark Sunrise […]

Growing the plants you buy; from planning to planting.  My job as Production Manager.     -by Erin Markway Did you know that all of the vegetables and almost all of the annuals we sell are grown right here at Longfellows?  We also grow quite a few of our perennials as well.  Talk about locally grown!  Even […]

How the Cold Weather is Affecting Indoor Plants. Why should indoor plants be affected by the cold?  Temperatures are moderated in our homes, near 70 degrees.  How can that be? Drought in the House – Here is an observation made by Carol Ellinger on the results of hard-working heat furnaces: “I was gone from home one […]