Breck’s Blog Summer Gardening Mid-season deadheading made easy By Vishu Sharma / August 12, 2016 Deadheading is the act of making calculated cuts, removing the dead or faded blooms to keep up a plant’s appearance,... Read More Planting Tips Cutting back: Pruning basics By Vishu Sharma / August 5, 2016 Pruning, for many gardeners, is among the most dreaded aspects of growing. A big reason is that no two plants... Read More Bees Irises Best spring flowers to attract bees in mid to late season By Vishu Sharma / July 5, 2016 Bee activity is one of the surest indicators of your garden’s health, so if it’s high and your garden keeps... Read More Irises Summer Care for Your Iris bed By Vishu Sharma / June 30, 2016 Summer at its peak, and most bearded irises are showing their lovely, lustrous heads. It’s time to sit back and... Read More Breck's News Bulbs Off with their heads: Why our growers top tulips By Lauren / April 28, 2016 It's not a common practice among most gardeners: growing big, beautiful tulips only to lop off their blooms. But for... Read More Bees Spring Gardening Early spring blooms for attracting bees By Vishu Sharma / April 12, 2016 Gardeners aren't the only ones eager for those first spring blooms. After a long winter, bees are beginning to look for... Read More Spring Gardening Preventing storm damage to your garden By Vishu Sharma / April 2, 2016 With springtime flowers come all those showers! Flash floods and heavy rain are markers of springtime around much of the... Read More Bees Spring Gardening Attracting bees all summer By Vishu Sharma / March 10, 2016 Bee-friendly gardening has been creating a lot of buzz here at Breck’s - and for great reasons! But you need... Read More Roses Downton Abbey roses carry spirit of show past the series finale By Vishu Sharma / March 7, 2016 Downton Abbey just wrapped up its invigorating six-season run – don’t worry, no spoilers here. What are we to do... Read More Bees Best bee-friendly plants for your garden By Vishu Sharma / February 3, 2016 The buzzing noises bees create result from their rapidly beating wings, and from the vibration of their thorax and wing muscles... Read More Bulbs Begonia: 2016’s Summer Bulb of the Year By Lauren / January 27, 2016 iBulb, a company dedicated to promoting the flower bulb market, names an annual summer bulb - and this year's winner... Read More Gardening Trends Holiday Transplanting decorative Christmas trees By Vishu Sharma / December 29, 2015 Of all the wonderful ways you can decorate your living room for the holiday season, it’s no secret that one... Read More Breck's Gifts The Christmas tree tradition By Vishu Sharma / December 17, 2015 The custom of decorating Christmas trees may have started in 15th or 16th century Germany, with devout Christians bringing decorated... Read More Bulbs Irises Irises – perfect for fall planting! By Vishu Sharma / September 9, 2015 With looks to rival the beauty of the rainbow-riding Greek messenger of the gods it’s named after, and a spectrum... Read More New Products Lasagna planting with bulbs By Lauren / July 30, 2015 Place layers of noodles, cheese and sauce in a pan, and you'll have a delicious lasagna. Do the same thing... Read More Fall Planting Spring Gardening Crocus Celebrated as 2015 Flower Bulb of the Year By Mary Pat / July 30, 2015 There can be no more welcome sight in the last dreary days of winter than colorful crocuses popping up, often... Read More Bees Bulbs Summer Gardening Alliums – Calling All Bees and Butterflies! By Mary Pat / July 15, 2015 The Giant Allium is one of my favorite plants. Dramatic flower stalks rise up to five feet high (1.5 m.),... Read More Wish You Were Here Wish You Were Here – Lilies in Breezand By Lauren / June 26, 2015 We’re heading out on a little summer trip! While the Netherlands have slightly cooler summers than the temperate regions of... Read More Fritillaria Spring Gardening Fritillaria imperiallis—The Crown Jewels of Any Garden! By Mary Pat / June 16, 2015 A majestic sight in the late spring garden, Crown Imperial fritillaria has a long history, cultivated as early as the... Read More Irises How an amateur botanist became iris royalty By Mary Pat / June 4, 2015 Mother Nature is fickle. Try as we might as gardeners, the unexpected is the only thing that’s predictable. I’ve found... Read More « Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 … 8 Next »