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How to Plant a Cactus the Easy Way

Ken Davis

by Ken Lain, the mountain gardener My love for cacti has grown, no pun intended. Planting without getting spines in your fingers is challenging when working with cacti. You've likely...

How to Plant a Cactus the Easy Way

Ken Davis

by Ken Lain, the mountain gardener My love for cacti has grown, no pun intended. Planting without getting spines in your fingers is challenging when working with cacti. You've likely...

Dramatic Weeping Trees for Any Garden

Dramatic Weeping Trees for Any Garden

Ken Davis

by Ken Lain, the mountain gardener Redbud The branches of a weeping tree gracefully flow and draw style into your garden. Many weeping varieties have "pendulum" or "pendula" in their...

Dramatic Weeping Trees for Any Garden

Ken Davis

by Ken Lain, the mountain gardener Redbud The branches of a weeping tree gracefully flow and draw style into your garden. Many weeping varieties have "pendulum" or "pendula" in their...

Spring Flowers on display

Growing More Flowers in the Garden this Spring

Ken Davis

by Ken Lain, the mountain gardener There are lots of annuals grown for their foliage, like coleuses and caladiums. Blooming plants remain the most popular annuals. That's because annual plants...

Growing More Flowers in the Garden this Spring

Ken Davis

by Ken Lain, the mountain gardener There are lots of annuals grown for their foliage, like coleuses and caladiums. Blooming plants remain the most popular annuals. That's because annual plants...

Watters 60th Spring Open House

Help us Celebrate 60 Years of Spring

Ken Davis

Meet the growers that produce Watters plants as they travel directly from the farm to share their insider tips and tricks of the trade. This year's newest fruit trees, roses,...

Help us Celebrate 60 Years of Spring

Ken Davis

Meet the growers that produce Watters plants as they travel directly from the farm to share their insider tips and tricks of the trade. This year's newest fruit trees, roses,...

Gardener Mr Sanders favorite herb is rosemary

A Healthy Evergreen Anyone Can Grow

Ken Davis

by Ken Lain, the mountain gardener Its Latin name, Rosmarinus officinalis, means 'dew of the sea,' most associated with healthy Mediterranean cooking. Imagine tumbling Rosemary growing over a wall and...

A Healthy Evergreen Anyone Can Grow

Ken Davis

by Ken Lain, the mountain gardener Its Latin name, Rosmarinus officinalis, means 'dew of the sea,' most associated with healthy Mediterranean cooking. Imagine tumbling Rosemary growing over a wall and...

Spring 2022 at the Garden Center

9 Garden Tasks for Better Gardens this Spring

Ken Davis

By Ken Lain, The Mountain Gardener Spring weather signals the start of specific gardening tasks essential to maintaining a vital, healthy garden. I'm a list type of gardener, and the...

9 Garden Tasks for Better Gardens this Spring

Ken Davis

By Ken Lain, The Mountain Gardener Spring weather signals the start of specific gardening tasks essential to maintaining a vital, healthy garden. I'm a list type of gardener, and the...