Midsummer Update from Our Trial Garden
For Longfield Gardens, home is the Garden State: New Jersey. Our offices and warehouse are located in the eastern part of the state, less than 10 miles from the ocean. About 5 years ago, we put in a ¾ acre trial garden out back,Read More
Know Your Lilies: Asiatics, Orientals, Trumpets and More!
It’s pretty easy to tell the difference between daylilies (hemerocallis) and true lillies (lilium). Daylilies have a dense root system, long, strappy foliage and clusters of flowers on wiry stems. True lilies grow from bulbs. They have a prominent, upright stalk thatRead More
Best Practices for Watering Plants
Summer is vacation season, and if you’re leaving home for more than a few days, you’ll probably need to ask someone to water your garden and containers. When I’m away, my instructions for which plants need to be watered and how much and how often to waterRead More
New Tulip Bulbs for Fall 2016
Tulip bulbs make it easy to paint a masterpiece with spring-blooming flowers. This year’s lineup of new varieties offers some unexpected color combinations and unusual flower styles that are sure to inspire your creativity.
American Flowers Week Promotes Locally-Grown Cut Flowers
The “buy local” movement has transformed our country’s food system, and now the same thing is happening in the cut flower industry. As with food, this locally grown movement couldn’t be happening without the creativity and hard work of flower farmers fromRead More
Fertilizer Basics — Why and How to Feed Your Plants
Plants that are well fed are healthier, more pest and disease resistant, and produce bigger, better crops of flowers and fruit. As gardeners we are eager to do right by our plants and wouldn’t want them to go hungry. Unfortunately, most gardenRead More
How to Control Red Lily Leaf Beetles
The red lily leaf beetle (Lilioceris lilii) is a destructive pest that feeds almost exclusively on true lilies (Lilium spp.), including Asiatic and Oriental lilies as well as Orienpets and species lilies. First discovered in Canada about 50 years ago, this non-native speciesRead More
6 Ways to Control Garden Slugs and Snails
They may look harmless, but slugs and snails can cause a surprising amount of damage in a garden. They chew holes in leaves, munch on flower buds and fruit, and devour tender seedlings, leaving a trail of silvery slime wherever theyRead More
Aftercare Tips for Spring Bulbs
When the spring bulb season comes to an end, gardeners often wonder what to do about the spent flowers and fading foliage. The answer depends on whether you are treating the bulbs as annuals or perennials. Spring bulbs as annuals Though mostRead More
What Were Your Favorite Spring Bulbs?
We try our best to show you what our flower bulbs will really look like when they bloom in your garden. One of the ways we do this is by maintaining a trial garden where we grow and photograph most of the varieties thatRead More
