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Indoor Gardening Tips: What You Need to Know

If you love gardening, but don’t have your own backyard or front yard, chances are you’ve tried indoor gardening. This can be tricky, considering you don’t have the natural outdoor sunshine and earth dirt to rely on. If you want to make your home as luscious as [...]


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Shop Local: 5 Reasons Why It's Important

There are many big box stores that you can stop at to buy a gallon of milk, get a pair of jeans and even pick up a potted plant. While getting everything at once may sound appealing, we encourage you to consider buying local.   SummerWinds Nursery has three thriving [...]


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What are Hybrid Plants? An Overview of Most Popular Breeds

If you’re new to gardening or if you’re an experienced gardener, you’ve probably heard about hybrid plants and may have questions about them. Keep reading to learn about hybrid plants from The Spruce, how plants are hybridized, the different types and much more; are you ready [...]


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Raised Beds in the Garden: Why They Matter and How to Build Them

You may not have considered raised beds for your garden before, but they’re a fantastic way to plant vegetables and flowers in your yard.   Creating a garden in raised beds is ideal for a variety of reasons: They can be used for most types of plants, [...]


Baby, it's warm outside - a couple sitting outside on chairs in the sun

Protect Those Precious Plants During Heat Waves

Finally the sun is out, the rains have slowed, and we can enjoy the time and energy we put into our garden in spring to prepare for a lovely summer. But when temps surge, baby, it's warm outside. Don't let all your hard work in spring wither away. Here are [...]