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Landscape Lighting Tips

  Keep reading past special details for landscape lighting tips, including how it can increase your home value, add safety and more. Fall 2025 Special! Regularly $3,200 Special Package Price $2,600 Our Base Model Lighting System comes with all the essential installation features you will need to brighten your home and create a cozy atmosphere… Read more »

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Adding Landscape Interest with Ornamental Grasses

  What is an ornamental grass? Ornamental grasses are showy grasses, usually grown for their plumes, which is what grass blooms are called.  They may also be chosen for leaf color or features; such as zebra grass and purple fountain grass. Plumes usually start appearing in late summer into early fall and last throughout the… Read more »

All about MUMS!

  Nothing says fall like mums! These mum plants are a seasonal favorite for porches, gardens, and fall décor. Ever wonder how long it will take a mum to bloom out? Or whether it’s better to buy tightly budded mums or ones already showing color? Keep reading for a full guide on bloom timing, mum… Read more »

Fruit Trees in Arkansas

  Keep reading for details on growing fruit trees in Arkansas! Home gardening as a hobby experienced huge growth last year and we are expecting this trend to continue.  With this trend in mind, and knowing that many in our community are interested in either adding onto their ‘grocery’ garden or getting started, we are… Read more »

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New Arrivals – Unique Japanese Maples and Evergreens

We are excited to share more about the truckload of Japanese maples and evergreens, including unique Japanese maple varieties, evergreen topiaries, small new-to-us plants perfect for container plantings.  This shipment also included very large specimens of slow growing varieties like Lion’s Head Japanese Maple (Acer palmatum ‘Shishigashira’).  Tiny plants, perfect for bonsai, were also a… Read more »

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The Right Vine for the Right Space

What is a vine plant? The definition of a vine is a plant whose stem requires support to climb, twine, or attach to in order to grow upwards or outwards. It can also mean a plant that creeps across the ground.  There are well-behaved vines that grow at a slower pace and aggressive vines that… Read more »

Deer Resistant Annuals & Perennials for Arkansas

Here in the Natural State, we enjoy wild beauty. In Good Earth’s home city of Little Rock, nature is never far from our doorstep—from native dogwoods to bubbling brooks to abundant wildlife, we’re surrounded by homegrown beauty. However, this closeness to nature also carries a threat to our gardens: deer! We get questions every week… Read more »

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Our Good Earth Garden Mural

Our Good Earth Garden Mural We did a thing; a big thing and actually our friend and artist Brennan Henson created it! We feel very fortunate to know Brennan; she worked with us for a bit before moving on to her true calling of full time artist. A mural has long been on our must-have… Read more »