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Color Your Containers

Since spring has officially arrived, let's get a jumpstart on our container gardens. Try these bloomers that tolerate the cooler early days of spring and get your containers if full...

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Eight Trends Influencing the Gardening World in 2016

Easy to love new plants, accessible technology, a flirt with romance, the sharing economy, a cleaner, simpler color palette, and crisp geometric design all add up to a fresh take...

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Garden Classic

GARDEN GERANIUMS Geraniums are a truly a garden classic. Did you know that two types of geraniums exist? Seed geraniums and zonal geraniums....

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Five Ways to Design with Roses

From bud to bloom to falling petals, no garden, from cottage to contemporary, is really complete without at least a few of these dreamy flowering shrubs....

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Not Your Mother’s Petunias

Most of us that had mothers or grandmothers who gardened probably remember old fashioned petunias. Their fragrant, ruffled blooms in every imaginable color have long been a staple in flowerbeds....

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Plant of the Week: Evening Star

Lets Its Petals Do the Talking One of the newest ‘stars’ of the garden, Evening Star is covered with cool, lavender blue flowers featuring a yellow star pattern and a...

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Merry Just Got Merrier

Friday Sunday, December 19 21 Need a hostess gift, or a last minute gift idea or maybe just a little sprucing up before Santa’s arrival?...

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Think PINK

PINK POSSIBILITIES FOR THE AUTUMN GARDEN October is Breast Cancer th, an annual initiative to increase awareness for the disease....

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Pleasing Purple Color!

CELOSIA INTENZ We just love the extreme color of Celosia Intenz! This annual features showy, purple plumes which bloom throughout the summer and transition right into fall offering you amazing...

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Beat the Heat

OUR HOT WEATHER FAVORITES Things are heating up in Hampton Roads... and there are plenty of plants that like it hot! Fill your garden with a pop of color, using...

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Viva Italia

GROW AN ITALIAN HERB GARDEN. Have the tastes and smells of Italy right in your own backyard. An Italian herb garden can be any size or shape, and can easily...

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Get Going with Geraniums

As one of the most reliable plants in the garden, growing these annual flowers couldn’t be easier. With a distinctive bloom and ruffly, textured leaves, geraniums give big color all...

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Laxmi Jayaraj (Lux)

Jul 2025

McDonald Garden Center feels like a second home. Plants are always healthy and well cared for. Staff are warm, patient, and generous with their wisdom.

K. F.

Feb 2025

Had a great time at Plantopia HousePlant Adoption Day. Plants are top notch, great selection. Staff are awesome, friendly and knowledgeable, and give great tips.

John Vaquerano

Jan 2023

Marissa and Erin treated us like long lost nursery mates. I got great advice, and will definitely be back. I highly recommend this place.

Elizabeth Cannon

Jun 2025

Associate helped me pick the right planter, fertilized him, and topped with decorative rocks. All for an incredibly reasonable price and caring smiles.

Sebastian Mot

Jan 2020

This place is MASSIVE and has anything you could ever want. The succulent selection is huge, and the staff is very helpful.

Joyce Drakeford

Jan 2019

So knowledgeable. Friendly service each and every time. Find the perfect plant for every spot in your yard. Been a customer for years.