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Gearing Up For The Holidays

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Our team of talented designers and buyers have hard at work curating our holiday collection. People often ask us where we source our products from so we would like to share where we source our products from.

Christmas Trees: Vermont

Magnolia: Florida & South Carolina

Miscellaneous Greens: Oregon & Washington

Garlands: Made by us using greens above

Plant Material

Cranberry Plants: New Hampshire

Hellebore: Maine

Alberta Spruce: North Carolina

Gaultheria: New Brunswick Canada

This Weeks Featured Flower Arrangement

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Luscious & dramatic, ‘Ruby’ is a vision of sultry romance. Red Dutch hydrangea, red astilbe, black Odessa calla lilies, mauve lisianthus, red hanging amaranthus, peach pincushion protea, plum scabiosa, with sweet pink gomphrena & Pink Expression garden roses with accents of seeded eucalyptus & purple feather acacia. Beautifully arranged in a rounded bottom, leaf-lined, clear glass vase.

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Boston Fall garden Clean Up Services

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Our Fall Clean Up Services

Does garden look a little shabby around this time of year? Could your property benefit from a good fall cleaning? Our urban gardens services are designed to provide the care and attention your property needs with none of the hassle. We’re proud of our commitment to our clients. Getting your garden back into shape after the end of the season can be a big job, but we’ll handle it.

What does Fall Cleaning Involve?

  • Raking up leaves and composting them

  • Updating Seasonal flowers

  • Weed Control

  • Mulching

  • Fertilizer Applications

  • Pruning

  • Cleaning up branches & lawn debris

  • Wrapping Shrubs for winter season

You may not have the time necessary to clean up your property during the Spring and Fall season, but our experienced crews can take care of it for you! Your time is valuable: Let us do the dirty work so you can enjoy a beautiful, pristine Garden Oasis. Our maintenance crews are service experts and can help you get the job done promptly and efficiently.

Autumn A Great Time For A Garden Bed Makeover

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Autumn is a fine time for garden bed makeovers. The cooler temperatures help with water loss from leaves, this allows the plants being able to tolerate being ripped out of the ground and being replanted into the ground. Having leaves still on the plants helps new root growth in the new planting area, and helping establishing new growth in the new spot.

If you would to try this in the summer months most of the plants will die during transplant, as the root systems will be shocked.

Doing a garden bed makeover is curbing the growth of aggressive perennials and bulb plants, threatening to take over the entire bed. Perennials and Bulbs in most garden beds bore many offspring that over time reproduce their own offspring creating years and years of new plants.. T.

3 Best Houseplants For Beginners!

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Houseplants are definitely having a moment. But for those of us wanting to jump on the bandwagon, it’s important to know that not all varieties are created equal. You might opt for succulents or cacti, because well, the prevailing belief is these plants don’t require much water. They do well in the desert, so why not a bright corner in the home?

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With its shiny leaves, the ZZ plant is often confused with an artificial plant. No wonder, since it basically thrives on neglect. Yet this plant offers so much more than a faux plant: It is said to improve poor air quality and even cognitive function, while working great as a tabletop plant. The ZZ plant loves dryer soil and bright, indirect sunlight, but can survive lower light as well. “If your place doesn’t get great light, then I suggest a ZZ plant,” says Paul Thompson, a plant consultant, stylist, and chemistry teacher. In terms of matching your home’s decor, he says you can’t go wrong with a ZZ because “they add a bit more texture and come in regular green or black.” Paul adds, “While they generally grow upward, they can sprawl out a little bit.”

Thus, a small ZZ’s stalky base and waxen leaves render it an elegantly modern centerpiece, particularly since it can tolerate lower light and rarely needs repotting. Paul highly recommends only repotting your plants in pots with a drainage hole: The easiest way to kill a plant is by overwatering it and not allowing the water to drain out. If the pot you have your eye on doesn’t come with a drainage hole, he suggests drilling a hole in it or placing the nursery pot into your chosen vessel.

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Pothos

If you regularly forget your plants, this meandering vine of heart-shaped leaves may be for you. Pothos grow quickly and work great in hanging pots. Not to mention, they can help remove pollutants from the air like carbon monoxide, making indoor air safer to breathe. While a pothos likes sunny, indirect light, it can do well in fluorescent lighting. Talia says, “I call them ‘the good communicators’ because although they’ll need more water at once a week, they will let you know because their leaves will get super droopy. It’s very noticeable, even for beginners.”

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According to plant influencer and I Rap to My Plants owner Courtney Warwick, pothos don’t require a lot of attention and still thrive under some neglect. “I own pothos plants, and they’re very happy with the minimum amount of attention,” she says. “Prior to becoming a plant parent, I assumed plants need care daily, but honestly they don’t.” However, it’s more than okay to talk to them. She adds, “I personally rap to my plants and all of my plants love it.” Coming in varying striations of yellow, white, or green, pothos plants really can fit any plant parent’s style.

Snake plant

Because this plant produces oxygen throughout the day and night, it could actually improve your quality of sleep. But the snake plant may be the best for one reason alone: It’s difficult to kill. Snake plants can survive in almost dark light. And unlike the others, this plant is actually a succulent. While other succulents seem visually flat, the snake plant grows tall. It also doesn’t need the same high level of care as other succulents that grow toward the sun, need to be rotated regularly, and get “very leggy right away,” Talia says. As a matter of fact, snake plants are drought-resistant, and in the winter months, they can go two months between waterings. Courtney says, “Make sure that you always keep in mind underwatering is better than overwatering. I have noticed that a lot of new plant parents think that their indoor plants need to be watered daily, and that’s not true!”

“Snake plants are by and far the lowest maintenance plant,” Talia adds. In terms of decorating, “they can be very stark, so a lot of people use them in more modern decor. They have a very specific aesthetic but come in varieties of color.” Paul agrees. “There’s such a great variety of snake plants to go with any home decor,” he says. “The good thing about these is they can come very small or very big. They grow upwards, so if you’re looking for something to add height to an area, snake plants are a great option.”

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