Skip to content
Custom Grown Greenhouse and Garden Center
  • Home
  • About
  • Contact Us
  • Hours and Location
  • Products
  • Blog

plants

Potager Gardens

March 31, 2021March 23, 2021 by steven
Potager Garden Plant types worksheet

Potager gardens incorporate flowers, vegetables, fruits, herbs and other plants into your vegetable garden. Grow what you eat and make the garden pretty by adding colorful blooms that attract pollinators. This will increase your harvest. Adding borders of flowers, for example marigolds, also helps detract pests. These flowers doubles as a beautiful border. Don’t spend … Read more

Categories Outdoor Flowers, Outdoor Plants, Weekly Flower and Plant Talks From Facebook Tags flowers, herbs, plants, Potager gardens, vegetables

Butterfly Attracting Plants

March 17, 2021March 16, 2021 by steven
Greenhouse and Garden Center Butterfly attracting plants

If you want to attract butterflies, you also need butterfly attracting plants (hosts) that will attract the caterpillars! Our native Common Milkweed, known as Asclepias syriaca, attracts monarch caterpillars. This particular plant forms long runners and can become invasive. Swamp Milkweed, or Asclepias incarnata, is a better alternative and is adapted to dry as well … Read more

Categories Outdoor Flowers, Outdoor Plants, Spring Products, Weekly Flower and Plant Talks From Facebook Tags garden center in milwaukee, greenhouse, outside flowers, plants, pollinators
1985-2021 Custom Grown Greenhouse