Author: Jennifer Gibson
Butterfly Bush Care Guide: Planting, Pruning & Varieties
What Is A Butterfly Bush? Butterfly bush, also called Buddleja, is a fast-growing flowering shrub loved for attracting butterflies, hummingbirds, and other pollinators. It produces fragrant flower spikes in shades of purple, pink, white, and yellow from summer through fall. Butterfly bushes thrive in full sun and well-drained soil and can grow between 4… Read more »
How to Control Bagworms in Your Landscape
Learn the life cycle of bagworms in order to control this devastating insect in your landscape
How to Control Grubs in the Landscape
Learn how to control grubs in your lawn and landscape beds
Top Pro 5 Tips on Doing Your Own Landscape Project
Learn the top five professional tips on doing your own landscape from the award-winning team at The Good Earth Garden Center.
When and What to Prune
Understanding what and when to prune is just as important as knowing why you are pruning, since timing directly affects plant health, growth, and flowering. If you haven’t read our last blog post, the aptly named Reasons to Prune , we suggest doing so before reading this one. A large part of good pruning includes… Read more »
Good Earth Gift Cards
The answer is yes, we do offer gift cards, in any amount! We aren’t set up for online purchases BUT it’s still an easy process. If you are local, just stop by the garden center! If you aren’t local or won’t have the chance to visit us, give us a call at… Read more »
Reasons to Prune
Why do we prune? What is pruning? What are the types of pruning? Some plants need to be pruned, thinned or trimmed back while others do just fine with no shaping, and can even look worse after pruning efforts. In this post, we want to share more about the reasons to prune and in our… Read more »
Freeze Warning
What does a severe freeze mean for your landscape? Keep reading! In the bullet points below are basic tips for normal hard freezes. However, each of the recent winters have brought colder than normal weather, with many parts of Arkansas experiences below average lows in various USDA Plant Hardiness Zones, with accompanied windchill numbers that… Read more »