Crape myrtle trees and bushes provide year-round interest with their summer flowers, colorful fall foliage, and attractive exfoliating bark While springtime is the time of year when most trees put on their floral display, there are Continue Reading.
Category: Garden
Gasper Garden To-Do List: Mid-Summer
What we are doing in our gardens during mid-summer Managing our Gardens Have a little too much growing in your beds or are things getting a bit overgrown? Let us help you keep your plants properly Continue Reading.
Roses
A Guide to Different Types of Roses— and — Information on Caring for Roses Beautiful, fragrant, and colorful are just a few words we can use to describe a rose. These flowers come in a variety Continue Reading.
Lilacs
Lilacs may bring memories to some of their grandmothers who had a lilac shrub, and that nostalgia factor may be one of the reasons you may plant one in your garden. Whatever the reason may be, Continue Reading.
Plant Your Tomatoes Deep
A vegetable garden tip from Gasper owner, Robert Gasper My best advice for planting tomatoes runs counter to the standard planting advice for most other plants. For most plants, it is typically recommended that you plant Continue Reading.
Gasper Garden To-Do List: Early Summer
What we are doing in our gardens in the early summer! Weed Prevention Have a little too much growing in your beds? Weed control can be extremely challenging and is arguably one of the most frustrating Continue Reading.
Bee More Friendly
You can help your garden and save the bees Honey bees and other native bee populations have been experiencing decline due to loss of habitat, increased use of pesticides (especially Neonicotinoids), disease, and other baffling issues Continue Reading.
Flowering Dogwoods
Spring is an excellent time to plant a dogwood tree A stand out amongst spring flowering trees is our native flowering dogwood, Cornus florida. Cornus florida is one of those multi-season performers with beautiful large white Continue Reading.