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Gardening Tips & Advice

Make sure to check out our Gardening Tips & Advice area for a live stream of gardening tips, gardening info and heaps of ideas to help gardeners of all experience get more out of their hobby and out of their gardens.

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Annuals

In gardening, annual often refers to a plant grown outdoors in the spring and summer and surviving just for one growing season. Many food plants are, or are grown as, annuals, including virtually all domesticated grains. Some perennials and biennials are grown in gardens as annuals for convenience, particularly if they are not considered cold hardy for the local climate. Carrot, celery and parsley are true biennials that are usually grown as annual crops for their edible roots, petioles and leaves, respectively. Tomato, sweet potato and bell pepper are tender perennials usually grown as annuals.

What Should I Plant?

Use our Gardening widget to help you decide on what to plant this year. Whether your looking to hang plants in your sun room, landscape the front of your home, or plant a full on garden our Gardening Help widget can point you in the right direction. Look for the headline “What Should I Plant” at the bottom of the page and get started now!

With our widget, you can choose from indoor or outdoor plants, as well as what type of light you have available to ensure proper growth for your plants.  Choose from big plants or small plants, and find the perfect plant for your hanging basket, container, or garden.  From spring to summer, to fall and winter, find the perfect plant for you!

Vegetables

You already know that Orlop’s has vegetable plants for sale, but did you know you can order vegetable plants as early as the end of December for delivery when your spring garden is ready for planting? Our live vegetable plants will be delivered according to our Spring Delivery Schedule.

Swing by and check out our selection of peppers, tomato, pumpkins, and squash!  Perfect additions to your new or existing vegetable gardens.

Herbs

An herb is a plant that is valued for flavor, scent, medicinal or other qualities. Herbs are used in cooking, as medicines, and for spiritual purposes.

Herbs have a variety of uses including culinary, medicinal, or in some cases even spiritual usage. General usage differs between culinary herbs and medicinal herbs. In medicinal or spiritual use any of the parts of the plant might be considered “herbs”, including leaves, roots, flowers, seeds, resin, root bark, inner bark (cambium), berries and sometimes the pericarp or other portions of the plant.

Perennials

A perennial plant is a plant that lives for more than two years. The term is often used to differentiate a plant from shorter lived annuals and biennials. When used by gardeners or horticulturalists, perennial applies specifically to winter hardy herbaceous plants. Scientifically, woody plants like shrubs and trees are also perennial in their habit.

Perennials, especially small flowering plants, grow and bloom over the spring and summer and then die back every autumn and winter, then return in the spring from their root-stock rather than seeding themselves as an annual plant does. These are known as herbaceous perennials.