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Fun With James Farmer
We had a great time showing James all around the farm- we even sent him home with some potted herb souvenirs! Last week, our good friend, James Farmer came up for a demonstration on garden to table...
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How To Build A Better Butterfly Garden
Butterfly gardening can be a wonderful way to experience wildlife in your garden, encourage pollination, and it takes very little maintenance, giving you more time to enjoy the beauty of watching...
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How To Create a Hummingbird Haven
Hummingbirds love sweet,tubular-shaped flowers like those of the Bee Balm herb plant. We absolutely LOVE watching hummingbirds dart through our gardens on a warm Summer evening. Attracting...
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Keeping The Mosquitoes at Bay..
As summer quickly approaches, we have all been plagued with a common annoyance: mosquitoes. Is it my imagination, or are these pesky critters getting bigger and hungrier? Luckily, there are many...
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Grown Right
Dear Friends: When we began our nursery in 1987, we were selling plants in our local market – we knew each and every customer and they knew us. They trusted us to provide them with the highest quality...
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What Is In a Name? Plant Classification
Many people find themselves asking the question, “why use Latin to classify?” When you consider that there are over 250,000 species of living plants worldwide, it makes sense to have chosen a single...
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Fall is in the air
As summer fades into fall, we begin to notice the little signs warning that winter is approaching; even if still weeks away. Some signs are easier to read than others. Are the tree leaves turning early...
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One Person’s Herb is Another’s Weed
While on a trip to Prairie Canada, I was surprised to find find common chamomile blooming among the prairie plants. After first spotting this familiar herb, I began seeing it along the road shoulder,...
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Over Wintering Your Herbs
I am published in Fine Gardening magazine… It all started with questions I was getting from customers about growing outdoor herbs in the winter. Because we strive to provide an exchange of information...
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Fall Makeover!
The Growers Exchange herb garden is under going it’s fall make over. Most of the annuals have been removed: several frosts left basil looking limp. Fall is the best time to move and divide perennials....
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12 Unusual and Interesting Uses For Herbs
When many people think of herbs, they think of cooking. There are so many other uses for them! Take the list of herbs bellow and you have several natural ways to solve your everyday ailments. Go...
View ArticlePeople and Plants: An Herbal History
An herb, first and foremost, is a plant. It is a plant that can be used to flavor and garnish food, it can be food itself, utilized as a perfuming agent or made into homeopathic remedies for common...
View ArticlePlanning your Herb Garden
For many of you, gardening in January means sitting in front of a warm fire, sipping from a hot tea and browsing through your 2014 Herb Catalog. This is going to be a bitter cold week for us at the...
View ArticleThe Journey Begins
Growing up in the 1960’s, we all heard the same refrain: ‘Go play outdoors!’. Raising children in a relatively safe and protected environment in the early 1990’s, we echoed that as well: ‘Get...
View ArticleAt War in My Garden ~ Why I Love Growing Herbs
These unattractive enemies have taken over my squash, and I am spending much of my time and energy in a war against them. Squash Beetles ~ nasty little things that suck the life out of the plants I’ve...
View ArticlePotted Herbs Make Great Indoor Accents
To keep our test garden growing strong through the winter, we've moved some of our favorite herb plants indoors. Our sun porch has become a haven for potted herbs and one of our favorite places to take...
View ArticleHelp Save the Monarch Butterfly with Asclepias Tuberosa, Butterfly Milkweed
Butterfly Milkweed (Asclepias Tuberosa) is a native plant that creates a wonder area of your garden for monarch butterflies. The Growers Exchange wants to encourage our gardening friends to set aside a...
View ArticleSpring Culinary Herb Garden Giveaway
To celebrate the launch of TheHerbExchange.com and springtime gardening, we are giving away an instant culinary herb garden. Enter below for a chance to win one each of the following 6 plants: Genovese...
View ArticleGet to Gardening with Our Garden Tools Giveaway
It’s April and time for spring gardening. Enter below for a chance to win a gardening tools pack worth $100. Get to Gardening with Our Garden Tools Giveaway The post Get to Gardening with Our Garden...
View ArticleApril Showers Bring May Flowers Giveaway
It’s May. And all our April showers are starting to bring in May flowers. Enter below for a chance to win a box of six flowering plants for your garden. May Flowers Giveaway The post April Showers...
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