Saturday, May 19th, 2012: Join Mike Darcy and KXL at Bimart in Sandy, Oregon! There will be Black Gold samples, $3 rebates, and other goodies. Stop by for all of your gardening needs and to chat with a northwest garden expert!
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Saturday, May 19th, 2012: Join Mike Darcy and KXL at Bimart in Sandy, Oregon! There will be Black Gold samples, $3 rebates, and other goodies. Stop by for all of your gardening needs and to chat with a northwest garden expert!
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Nestled into opulent coastal southern California is a nursery where I go to find out what’s hot in the world of container gardening. Decades ago Rogers Gardens was founded on flower-filled hanging color baskets so fabulous they draw tour buses daily. I worked there in the early 80s and today I return to see how they display every hot trend in container gardening. Most of what I see can be recreated using Black Gold specialty potting soils to make your home garden just as exciting this year.

Whether you are planting summer vegetable seeds or seedlings (young transplants), this is probably the peak time of year for many summer vegetables and flowers. Here in the Pacific Northwest the soil temperature is getting warmer and there is still time to plant many familiar summer vegetables from seed. Or to get a head start, set out young transplants.
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We are excited to announce that Black Gold has partnered with four more gardening communicators this spring. Be sure to listen in to their radio shows for plenty of expert gardening tips and more information about Black Gold.
Mike Darcy (Portland, OR) of In the Garden (and a regular Black Gold contributor)
Ciscoe Morris (Seattle, WA) of Gardening with Ciscoe
Andre Viette (Virginia) of In the Garden with Andre Viette
Tony Works (Cincinnati, OH) of In and Around the House
Between them, these four master gardeners have decades of experience in educating others about the joys of gardening.
To stay up to date on all the latest Black Gold expert gardening advice, offers and events you can follow us on Facebook and Twitter, or subscribe to our monthly newsletter.

“Whether it’s houseplants or containers outdoors, Black Gold has a potting soil formulated to provide the ideal growing environment for all your plant projects.”
~P. ALLEN SMITH

“Good Morning, Gardeners!” is the cheery Sunday morning greeting familiar to over half a million radio listeners in New England and more from the rest of the United States, from “Mr. Nice Guy”, Paul Parent. Among other horticultural endeavors, Paul Parent has hosted “Paul Parent Garden Club” every Sunday morning from 6-10am on his syndicated talk show on the Genesis Communication network for the last 27 years.
Paul’s expert gardening advice is now heard on stations all over the country with a half-million loyal listeners.
Tune into The Paul Parent Garden Club™ talk radio show and find out what you have been missing.

Lantana camara 'Piñata' is one of several heat and drought tolerant ornamentals for summer long color.

Peonies are a favorite spring flower and I have many in my garden. I have had quite a few people tell me they are a memory flower and reminds them of a parent or grandparent’s garden. For me they bring memories of my grandmother’s garden in Ohio. A particular early-blooming favorite is Paeonia mlokosewitschii which is the first to bloom in my garden. It is named after a Polish botanist and is a mouthful to pronounce and has the common name of ‘Molly the Witch’. With distinctive foliage and beautiful soft yellow flowers, this may be difficult to find but worth the search.

When choosing a pot size for your young transplant, it can be tempting to take a small plant and put it into a very large pot in order to encourage it to grow. However, because the potting medium surrounding a young transplant may hold more water than would be utilized by the plant, this quick fix could result in root rot.
Instead, repot your transplants into containers only one or two inches larger than their original pot size, allow enough time for the expanding roots to fill in, then you can bump your healthy plants up again.