Day: May 6, 2015

Black Diamond Garden Center

Black Diamond Garden Center Spring Visit Photo Collection

Black Diamond Garden Center is a favorite garden center of mine and I’ve visited it often after it first open in 2003 in Perrysburg, Ohio. Black Diamond Garden Center Spring Visit Photo Collection post will make you want to travel to NW Ohio to take a look for yourself. This post is part of my Garden Center post for 2015 and I feature images from my quick visit to this location.  I hope you take the time and follow them on Facebook for current sales and information. Black Diamond Garden Center There are two locations in NW Ohio so be sure to google map them and bookmark the locations.  Today I am highlighting the location in Perrysburg Ohio.  It is a super easy location to get to off of I 75.  Plenty of parking and places to enjoy lunch surrounding this attraction so be sure to plan a day trip.  Below I have the google map and address for your convenience.  Don’t forget to tweet me if you end up checking it out! 12320 Eckel Junction Road Perrysburg, Ohio 43551 Black Diamond Garden Center Visit Photo Collection here are some of the images I took while visiting the garden center during the Spring 2015.  A few of my favorite things about the garden center is listed below.  They haven’t changed too much over the years ( edited this in 2020) except they keep up to date with the latest accessories for the garden and new plants of course. Above is the back view of the perennial and tree department. I always find some fun new items out there. Don’t forget to walk all the way to the back.  It is where I found an amazing dogwood and the tulip trees that are in my home garden today. Below are a few images from the SPRING collection in the herb and vegetable department. onion bulbs potato bulbs strawberry sale veggie and herbs rue herb beets Don’t forget to check out the seed department.  They have always carried my favorite brands.  Here are a few that caught my eye. The garden center always has unique tropical plants that can be enjoyed indoors year-round.  This is where I got my very first lime shrub. pineapple plant tag of pineapple plant Beautiful annuals that caught my eye during this visit. More Garden Center Visits Below are a few posts you may want to check out featuring my favorite garden centers I’ve visited over the years. ENJOY and don’t forget to tell me about your visit to these locations. Let’s Connect I’d love to hear about your favorite garden centers.  Do you shop at local mom and pop locations? Maybe you have been to Black Diamond Garden Center in NW Ohio.  Tell me what you enjoy most about them by commenting below.  You can find me on social media too so look me up and lets chat live! Happy Garden Center Shopping, Bren

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my first knock out rose

Easy Care Roses

Easy Care Roses are the way to go in any landscape.  The always-giving and easy to maintain shrubs provide color in home and business landscapes.  In this post, I will share my personal experience with easy-care roses including what varieties to look for. About Easy Care Roses Did you know that the first roses were all easy-care roses?  It is true!  Species roses grow and perform all on their own in nature.  You can find these species today in the wild.  I have a few that grow on their own back around my dome garden.  The bees love this lanky but yet full of bloom varieties.  Over the years these such bees and birds took pollen from the species roses and mixed things up forming cultivated or ‘hybrid roses.  Many of these roses thrive on being left alone and neglected. Those are my favorite!  Over the years I have grown many different varieties of roses.  Not all of these plants were considered ‘easy care roses’ but they performed with little to no maintenance. Easy Care Rose Varieties In the early 2000, Willam Radler introduced the first Knock Out Rose variety.  I added a few to my garden in 2005 and my addiction to growing roses began!  These roses no only put on a beautiful color show from June until late frost they are super easy to grow. The images on this post are my first knock-out roses planted in 2005. A Fragrant Easy Care Rose The first easy care roses that had a scent in my garden was from Proven Winners / Spring Meadows Garden called At Last.  I grow this rose in a container in my dome garden so I can enjoy it almost year-round.  The dome is mostly hardiness zone 8 and this rose puts off the most amazing scent. In 2019 I added a few new fragrant roses to my dome garden.  These rose grow in containers so I can move them around because they do not like the intense heat in the summer. The roses are new to the USA and are called Brindabella Roses.   The scent is truly something because when they start to open the scent travels about 10 feet from the plant. More Post on My Website About Roses Let’s Connect Roses aren’t for everyone – this is true.  But with the new varieties on the market and other gardening additions they can turn any brown thumb into a Prize-Winning Grower.  I want to hear from you and what you think about growing roses.  Have you grow any easy-care roses in your home landscape?   Be sure to connect with me on my website. Happy Rose Gardening,

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