Longfellow's Garden Center

Centertown, MO

Berries, Berries, Berries….

Harvest season is here and plants everywhere are producing fruits, nuts, and seeds as part of their life cycle. In the landscape, we enjoy the benefits of this fruiting process….the beauty, the food benefits, and the wildlife that feed on the harvest. Some of our favorite shrubs showing off this time of year include: Chokecherry – a 6-10′ tall […]

Common Garden Pests: As Heard on the Garden Spot

Hopefully you had the chance to tune into the Garden Spot radio show, Saturday August 5, 2017. Andrea McFarland shared with you several common pests that wreak havoc on our gardens. Here is what she shared: Japanese Beetles: Adults are metallic blue-green, ½-inch beetles with bronze wing covers, while larvae are fat, white grubs with […]

Ireland Garden Tour – Day 7

A bittersweet day…beautiful gardens and a history lesson, along with the sadness of saying goodbye. One last walk on the Promenade outside our hotel in Galway was a must this morning.  It was our last view of the sea before leaving the west coast to travel back to Dublin. A stop at Woodville Walled Gardens proved to be worthwhile.  […]

Ireland Garden Tour – Day 6

Kylemore Abbey, St. Brigit’s Garden, and a special event. Today our new driver joined us. Pat, another Killarney man, continued to supply us with facts about Ireland and our immediate locale. Pat, a fisherman himself, described local fishing (especially for brown trout and Atlantic salmon). We passed several lakes (“loughs”) and peat bogs. At one […]