by Ninja Lawns | Sep 30, 2015 | Activities, Autumn, Gardening, Indoors, Outdoors
Bringing the outdoors “in” is one of the things I love about gardening, and one of the best ways to do that is to grow flowers that cut well and can be used in simple arrangements throughout the house. Currently, I have some of my late-blooming, baby-blue...
by Ninja Lawns | Sep 28, 2015 | Autumn, Gardening, Get Outside, Seasonal
Broccoli and I used to have a love/hate relationship, but over the past few years, I have definitely grown to love this amazing vegetable more and more! Not only is it yummy, it is packed with TONS of nutritious things like dietary fiber, pantothenic acid, vitamin B6,...
by Ninja Lawns | Sep 25, 2015 | Autumn, Bedding Plants, Winter
Chrysanthemums are popping up everywhere!! Well, at least in the nurseries and garden centers 🙂 We love mums in the cool fall months because they are hardy, beautiful, and they present so nicely when planted in clusters. Use mums in containers, in beds, along...
by Ninja Lawns | Sep 24, 2015 | Autumn, Foundation Plants, Landscaping
After removing summer annuals and spent perennial blooms, homeowners often give up on cultivating any more “plant projects”, for fear that the cooler weather will destroy them. However, color and blooms are abundant in the autumn months, and there are multiple...
by Ninja Lawns | Sep 23, 2015 | Bedding Plants, Landscaping
It’s not unusual to find this evergreen shrub in many of our landscape designs. Mexican heather is the perfect blend of delicate and hardy, particularly in the south, where it blooms from early spring to the first frost in zones 7 and 8. Typically known to...