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Dazzle your guests this holiday season with the one and only McDonald Garden Center butter board! You only need a few fantastic ingredients to get started: 

Mums, pansies, and pumpkins line the doorways of homes all across Hampton Roads, especially for this upcoming weekend of tricks and treats. However, what about your indoor decor? Beyond the creepy crawlies, wicked witches, and the monsters under your bed, there is one thing you probably need more of to complete your haunted home: succulents and cacti!

As we get ready for the most fang-tastic night of the year, we’d like to acknowledge only the spookiest of our greenhouse plants:

1. Cryptanthus

Bulbs-the perfect plant for the laid-back gardener. Really, all you need to do is dig, drop, and then you’re done! However, there are ways to make your bulb gardening even more successful, and we are here to help.

1. Find the Perfect Spot 

Fall is a great time of year to plant, decorate, and, of course, enjoy the beautiful Hampton Roads weather! There are so many ideas and projects to choose from that the gardening opportunities are almost overwhelming. Staff Fall Favorites Week is the time of the year where we gather our amazing Green Team members to talk about their fall favorites of the season, to further help you on your gardening journey.

Pansies are one of the toughest and most beautiful annuals that we carry here at the garden center. Year after year, there is no getting tired of them, with new varieties that come out, the wide range of colors, and their versatility in the garden. But is there really only one way to plant pansies? Of course not! Pansies can be used in a variety of ways to make your fall even more fabulous.