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Breathe Easy with Houseplants
Did you know that Houseplants can turn carbon dioxide into oxygen? According to NASA, they also remove Airborne Volatile Organic Chemicals like benzene, formaldehyde, and trichloroethylene. These chemicals are commonly […]
March Showers Bring April Flowers
Is spring coming early this year? Am I jumping the gun by changing the words to an old rhyme?! It doesn’t quite feel like I am. We have had a […]
Pansy Power
You just can’t help but smile and believe spring is just around the corner when you walk into the garden center this week. The colors of all the pansies definitely […]
Puzzling Pachysandra Problems
Every year at Van Wilgen’s customers bring me to plant samples in little, plastic baggies. When I see those plastic baggies, I run and hide in the back room. I’m […]
Pansies, Tiny but Tough.
After a long winter inside most of us want nothing more than to get outside and get our hands dirty and plant some gorgeous color in our homes to help […]
How the heck do I care for my orchid?
“This orchid is so beautiful but how the heck do I take care of it? I’d probably just kill it!” This is what I hear from a lot of our […]