Paul Usak's Nursery & Garden Center

10 Flower Arranging Tips

A florist at heart? These 10 tips will help your flower arrangements last longer and have a professionally polished touch.

Grow your own jungle: easy exotic plants

Tropical gardening is all too often associated with expense and poor results. But choose your plants wisely and you can turn your patch into a slice of verdant jungle, says James Wong

DIY Holiday Bird Feeder

One of my favorite things to do on a lazy Saturday afternoon is to sit by the window with a cup of tea and watch the birds. Recently, my oldest daughter helped me make these festive pine cone bird feeders to encourage our feathered friends to visit more often. And because it’s the holiday season, we adorned our bird fe

39 fantastic independent nurseries that SoCal plant lovers will adore

Finding your favorite nursery can be thrilling. Here are our picks for the best independently-owned plant nurseries near Los Angeles.

Learn to read a nursery plant tag

FALLBROOK - Shopping for new plants for a home can be an exciting undertaking. Nurseries and garden centers are often home to dozens of types of plant species that come in various colors, leaf variations and sizes. Such variety can make choosing plants more fun while also making the process of buying plants a bit complicated, especially for novices...

SFPUC Growing Plants in Hospital-Like Nursery to Protect Water Quality

The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission is trying something different at its new native plant nursery in Sunol. To avoid infecting plants, the botanists here take precautions more akin to a laboratory than a commercial nursery.

Nursery owners worry about asphalt plant, developer says it's not happening

Despite a developer’s reassurances to the contrary, the owners of a longtime Box Elder County nursery worry an asphalt plant might be built next to their property.

How to help your plants through Oregon’s heat wave

People and plants need care to make it through the coming heat wave without wilting.

Gardens: get back to the nursery

Cultivating a good relationship with your local nursery is the key to rewarding gardening. Here are a few of Dan Pearson's favourites

Oregon's nurseries use bug-on-bug tactics to protect high-value plants

It's warfare at the magnifying-glass level. Nursery workers deploy predators by shaking them from trays or from plastic jugs that can hold up to 25,000 bugs. Some simply spread out and start eating. Others are like bizarre special ops forces.

1 Activity Garden Adventure Center · Get It

The holidays are right around the corner, which means new play things for the little ones. I’ve been prepping for...

Growing Sustainably for Your Garden is Bell Nursery Business

Bell Nursery grows more than lavender, coleus, pansies and other flowers. They grow eco-friendly plants sustainably for The Home Depot.

plant a mailbox garden

With a mailbox garden, it’s easy to remove weeds and improve the soil, and many plants are nearly carefree.

Gardening for beginners: How to sow and grow for the first time

By late spring you’ll have hordes of baby plants ready to be planted outdoors, all for the price of a few packets of seeds

How to Take Care of Air Plants

Are these supposedly 'impossible-to-kill' plants really that easy?

Perfect for your next landscape: Spring Paint Combo for only $35.99!

Ahh, spring... flowers and trees are budding and things are turning green again. It also means that its a great time to paint the landscape outside, and we can help with that! We've put together a sweet little paint combo for your next sunny dayThis set includes 3 tubes of Holbein Artist Designer Gouache in Permanent Yellow Orange, Olive Green, and Turquoise Blue, and a portable A6 sized Hahnemuhle Toned Grey Watercolor Book. All 4 items for only $35.99!Gouache (pronounced like…

How to get bouganvillea to bloom in a big way