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Know Your Flowers: Annuals & Perennials

Everyone agrees on the obvious: flowers ARE beautiful. However, not all flowers are made equal when it comes to their life-cycle and blooming habits.

You’ve probably heard of our weekly specials on annuals and perennials at the Reston Farm Market, but wonder what’s the difference between the two categories? We are happy to “decode” the gardening language for you and look at the gardening strategies that will keep your garden full of blooms all season long.

Annuals

Annuals are the plants that complete their life cycle in one year.

These low-maintenance annual flowers will bloom all season, making them a great choice for containers and hanging baskets.

Annual flowers are loved by many gardeners, as they prevent repetitive boredom and allow them to have a totally different garden every year.

If you want to experiment with a new color scheme in your garden or try some new plants, annuals are the way to go!

At Reston Farm Garden Market, we carry a variety of annual flowers and plants. From garden’s darling petunia to sweet vanilla-like alyssum, cosmos flowers, vibrant portulaca, verbena, classic geranium, and much, much more!

Perennials

Perennials flowers are designed to live for three or more years.

Perennials are perfect for those gardeners who like consistency and/or have no time to experiment with the garden.

However, standard perennials have a much shorter blooming cycle compared to annuals. Try mixing different kinds to establish a blooming pattern — hibiscus, hydrangeas, daisies, gaillardias, and other perennials.

We have a huge selection of both annuals and perennials to fit the needs of your unique garden.

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Your Guide to Pruning Hydrangeas in the Fall

Your Guide to Pruning Hydrangeas in the Fall

Knowing when to prune is critical to strengthening flowering on the different hydragea varieties; some bloom on new wood and some bloom on old wood.

Colorful & Fragrant Shrubs to Plant in the Fall

Colorful & Fragrant Shrubs to Plant in the Fall

Gardening is a wonderful journey, especially when you're just starting out. The fall season offers an exciting opportunity to plant shrubs that will flourish in the upcoming year. We’ll introduce you to some amazing shrubs to plant in the fall, the how-tos of planting them, and why fall is the ideal time for your gardening activities.

Let’s Make Some Sweet & Crunchy Honeycomb Brittle

Let’s Make Some Sweet & Crunchy Honeycomb Brittle

Try making this fun candy concoction using our locally-sourced honey, and your mouth will thank you. Honeycomb Brittle, also known as Honeycomb Toffee and Hokey Pokey, is a treat your family will love.

7 Things to Do in Your Zone 7 Garden in August

7 Things to Do in Your Zone 7 Garden in August

Here's your essential list of August garden activities you'll want to finish or at least get started before fall arrives.

A Downspout Garden can be Downright Beautiful

A Downspout Garden can be Downright Beautiful

You can improve rainwater absorption (less puddles in your yard!) AND have a beautiful & beneficial space by creating a downspout garden.

Are Bad Bugs a Growing Problem in Your Garden?

Are Bad Bugs a Growing Problem in Your Garden?

Know the difference between the good bugs and the bad bugs in your garden. Learn how to attract the good bugs, and how to safely treat for bad bugs.

How to Identify and Address Powdery Mildew

How to Identify and Address Powdery Mildew

Powdery mildew is a common fungus that affects a wide variety of plants. The good news is it can be easily identified. Know how to spot it and treat it!

How to Get Berry Good at Raising Healthy Blueberry Bushes

How to Get Berry Good at Raising Healthy Blueberry Bushes

Check out how easy it is to have dwarf bushes developed by Bushel & Berry®, created especially for the home gardener. Grow them in containers or in your garden.

Quenching Your Plants’ Thirst: How to Properly Water Your Plants

Quenching Your Plants’ Thirst: How to Properly Water Your Plants

Overwatering plants is one of the most common ways plants die. If you're not sure what to do, read on for the proper ways to water your garden & plants.

Layer Gardening: When You Can’t See the Forest For the Food

Layer Gardening: When You Can’t See the Forest For the Food

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A “food forest” is a fully enclosed ecosystem designed so it can take care of almost everything on its own. In other words, little to no maintenance. Learn how to implement your own food forest.

Things are looking up! Time to garden vertically.

Things are looking up! Time to garden vertically.

Use a vertical garden to define a particular space, say a wall, a screen, or a length of fence. Creating a vertical garden can be as simple as you want.

Herb Gardening: How to have a Scratch and Sniff Garden

Herb Gardening: How to have a Scratch and Sniff Garden

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Check out our top picks for your herb gardening. Herbs have the power to transform your stroll through your garden, reaching out to you with their fresh, delightful aroma, whether you brush by them or you pick a leaf and rub it between your finger and thumb.

Are You Ready to Rock Garden?

Are You Ready to Rock Garden?

Whether you have natural rock formations in your garden or not, you can create a beautiful rock garden. And the best part: Rock gardens can be low-maintenance.

Get the Low-Down on Low-Maintenance Shrubs & Plants

Get the Low-Down on Low-Maintenance Shrubs & Plants

Looking for garden and landscaping options that don't take a lot of care? Consider these low-maintenance shrubs and plants for stress-free landscaping.

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AquaPots® Keep Your Plants Happy and Healthy

With an AquaPot, you don't have to worry about under or overwatering your plants. Get the best of both worlds: convenience and beauty.

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Organic Lawn Care Tips (Thanks, Espoma!)

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Your Mulch Questions Answered

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Design Your Garden for Year-Round Blooms & Interest

Your garden is constantly changing with plants cycling in and out of bloom. Synchronize blooms and growth for year-round interest with a little planning.

Plan Your Garden Around the Color Wheel

Plan Your Garden Around the Color Wheel

When designing your garden's color pallette, use color-wheel theories for a stronger, more focused theme. Check out these inspirational gardens.

Happy Gardens Love Espoma’s Line of Organic Fertilizers

Happy Gardens Love Espoma’s Line of Organic Fertilizers

As gardeners, we know that making sure our soil is healthy and filled with the right nutrients is one of the most important things we can do. That’s why we love Espoma’s line of organic fertilizers, compost and soils.

Grow Your Own Veggies with Our Zone 7A Vegetable Seed-Planting Guide

Grow Your Own Veggies with Our Zone 7A Vegetable Seed-Planting Guide

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Growing your own vegetables from seed can be rewarding and cost-saving! Get our easy-reference Vegetable Seed-Planting Guide.

Eight tips that keep you and your houseplants happy and healthy.

Eight tips that keep you and your houseplants happy and healthy.

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Most plants share basic needs, so if you’re a new plant parent, want to get started, or just want to be sure you’re giving the best care, read on...

Have you introduced Zook’s Homemade Meat Pies to your mouth?

Have you introduced Zook’s Homemade Meat Pies to your mouth?

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Look for Zook's Homemade Chicken, Sausage and Beef Pies in the refrigerated section of our market.

Bonita’s Apple Butter Oatmeal Bars Recipe

Bonita’s Apple Butter Oatmeal Bars Recipe

Come on over the Garden Market and stock up on Bonita’s Apple Butter so you can make your own delicious apple butter oatmeal bars!

How to Choose the Perfect Christmas Tree

How to Choose the Perfect Christmas Tree

The Garden Market is here to help you if you should need it; we have a lovely selection of trees, and we offer delivery and set up services!

How to Build an Easy and Safe Fire Pit

How to Build an Easy and Safe Fire Pit

Fire pits are not too difficult to build and you don’t need any fancy equipment. We’ll walk you through the steps to do it yourself…

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How to Easily Create a Beautiful Harvest Centerpiece with Succulents, Pumpkins and Gourds

Come see us here at Reston Farm Garden Market and get inspired to make the most beautiful fall arrangements and decorations!

Create Your Kitchen Herb Garden for Fresh Herbs All Year

Create Your Kitchen Herb Garden for Fresh Herbs All Year

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Your Reston Farm Garden Market has the herbs, pots, soil, and encouragement you need to help you get your indoor herb garden thriving.

Fall in love with these fall container gardening ideas.

Fall in love with these fall container gardening ideas.

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when you add a wild selection of fall containers for your porch or deck, the ideas are endless!

Yummy Baked Apple Recipe

Yummy Baked Apple Recipe

Apples have been called nature’s perfect snack. We especially love ‘em baked with brown sugar and cinnamon, served with vanilla ice cream.

Turning Garden Plants into Houseplants (for the Winter)

Turning Garden Plants into Houseplants (for the Winter)

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Reston Farm Garden Market is right here with everything you may need, including compost, seed trays and… Encouragement. You can do it!

Fall is the Best Time to Plant Trees and Shrubs

Fall is the Best Time to Plant Trees and Shrubs

Planting trees and shrubs in the fall gives your new trees and shrubs a better chance for good root development before winter.

August and September is Time to Plant Your Fall Veggies

August and September is Time to Plant Your Fall Veggies

Reston Farm Garden Market is here with all the things you need to help you successfully grow and harvest your food, from plants to soils to amendments.

For an easy raised bed or plant potting solution, try Root Pouch!

For an easy raised bed or plant potting solution, try Root Pouch!

Root Pouches offer so many benefits for your raised bed and container gardening! Made from recycled material. Allows plant roots to breath. Moisture and temperature control. See why you should use these!

Is your garden stay-cation worthy? Make it a trip with tropicals.

Is your garden stay-cation worthy? Make it a trip with tropicals.

Add these tropicals to your northern Virginia garden and you'll have a garden worthy of a staycation retreat. Three of our faves are Croton, Caladiums and Palms.

Do you want more peace and tranquility in your garden? Just say “Zen.”

Do you want more peace and tranquility in your garden? Just say “Zen.”

If you’re interested in creating your very peaceful, very relaxing, very beautiful Zen garden space, we can help you.

Reston Farm Garden Market Contributes to ‘Plant a Better Tomorrow’ Program

Reston Farm Garden Market Contributes to ‘Plant a Better Tomorrow’ Program

The “Plant a Better Tomorrow” program raised $14,500 in 2021. "We are so excited to be a contributing part of this effort. There are so many families in need of help, that we want to contribute in the most profound way possible."

Ideas for Using Dark Foliage Plants in Zone 7A

Ideas for Using Dark Foliage Plants in Zone 7A

Looking for ways to help your vibrant and colorful plants stand out in the garden? The trick is pairing them with dark foliage counterparts. We have four stunners that will help your garden sing.

Reston Farm Garden Market Carries Raw Honey from Golden Angels Apiary, VA

Reston Farm Garden Market Carries Raw Honey from Golden Angels Apiary, VA

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Let’s Plant a Spring Moss Container

Let’s Plant a Spring Moss Container

When freezing temps have passed, but it might be too early to start planting in the ground, consider creating a moss-lined container with cool-temp blooming & loving plants. Garden Answer Laura shows us how!

Garden Trends 2022: Grow your own tapestry.

Garden Trends 2022: Grow your own tapestry.

Flowering ground covers, such as chamomile, thyme, yarrow and self-heal, can be wonderful choices for your tapestry lawn!

Garden Trends 2022: Are you wild enough to “rewild” your garden?

Garden Trends 2022: Are you wild enough to “rewild” your garden?

The trend of “rewilding” is gaining momentum this year. If you haven’t heard of this, it’s essentially what it sounds like: returning your garden to a more “wild” state, and managing it in a way that allows nature to play a bigger role in your landscape design.

Say “Welcome” With a Beautiful Fall Porch

Say “Welcome” With a Beautiful Fall Porch

Autumn is one of our favorite seasons! We love decorating our front porches with the textures and colors of fall. Check out these ideas and inspiration for YOUR porch and home entrance.

Autumn Garden Beauties You’ll Fall For

Autumn Garden Beauties You’ll Fall For

In our zone 7 area here in Reston, Virginia area, we are crazy about these show-off plans for fall garden beauty. Mums, violas, pansies, flowering kale and croton are a few of our favorites. See how these can liven up your fall garden.

Perennials: Style & Convenience

Perennials: Style & Convenience

Perennials perfect for those gardeners who like consistency and/or have limited time to spend in the garden. Usually having a shorter blooming cycle compared to annuals, try mixing different kinds to establish a blooming pattern. Get zone 7 perennial suggestions...

You’ve found it! The Summerific® “Holy Grail” Hibiscus!

You’ve found it! The Summerific® “Holy Grail” Hibiscus!

A planting zone seven perennial, we love the stunning dinner-plate size flowers and rich, deep-red color. These blooms are almost upstaged by the dark purple, near-black foliage that frame those blooms, and will stop you in your tracks. You can buy these from your local, family-owned garden center at Reston Farm Garden Market.

Super Reasons to Buy Super Annuals Like the Supertunia Mini Vista® Pink Star Petunia

Super Reasons to Buy Super Annuals Like the Supertunia Mini Vista® Pink Star Petunia

Our Supertunia petunias are stunning annuals that make excellent container and landscape flowering plants. They're super easy to care for, are heat tolerant and drought resistant. Listen to Garden Answer Laura explain why you need these lovelies!

Here comes the sun… Welcome to spring!

Here comes the sun… Welcome to spring!

Spring planting season is right around the corner, and there's plenty we can do to prepare. Here are a few tips for making sure your yard and garden is ready to rock when planing time comes.

Hardscaping Ideas Made Easy

Hardscaping Ideas Made Easy

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When it comes to planning how to integrate hardscaping into your garden, yard and outdoor space, we've got a quick guide to how to approach this task along with inspiration to get you started.

Turn Your Winter Blues into Garden To-do’s

Turn Your Winter Blues into Garden To-do’s

Waiting for spring to arrive? There are plenty of things we can do now to plan for a new, a better, a more fruitful season in our gardens. It's time to start planning!

Reston Diggs local business spotlight on Reston Farm Garden Market.

Reston Diggs local business spotlight on Reston Farm Garden Market.

Rob Chavez from Reston Diggs interviews Bonita Weinstein to get the dirt on the evolution of this family-owned and operated Reston, Virginia business. Around this garden center, we're growing joy every day.

Are you a panini Houdini? Here’s how to make this sandwich magically disappear.

Are you a panini Houdini? Here’s how to make this sandwich magically disappear.

Try our tangy Sweet Pepper Relish and Apple Cider Mustard to your sandwich creations and you'll never go back to mayo and plain ol' mustard.

Kitchen Herb Garden: A Tasty Way to Cook Through the Fall & Winter

Kitchen Herb Garden: A Tasty Way to Cook Through the Fall & Winter

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Cook with fresh herbs year-round with an easy-to-maintain kitchen herb garden. Yum, yum! Check out our helpful list of herbs, what to consider, and container ideas. Then pop in to Reston Farm Garden Market to pick up supplies, and get started.

Fall cocktails filled with fall flavors are more fun!

Fall cocktails filled with fall flavors are more fun!

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Grab jars of Reston Farm Garden Market's own Bonita's Apple Butter and Big White's Apple Cider for the makings of two delicious signature cocktails: Harvest Mule & Appley Married.

The secret ingredient behind Berry Delicious Razzle Sauce is….

The secret ingredient behind Berry Delicious Razzle Sauce is….

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Use our Red Raspberry Preserves to create a yummy drizzle for your grilled fish, shrimp, pork and more. Visit Reston Farms Garden Market for yummy foods, gorgeous plants and plenty of smiles.

Our sage advice? Get a Denim ‘n Lace Russian Sage for your garden.

Our sage advice? Get a Denim ‘n Lace Russian Sage for your garden.

One of the many things to love about this plant is that they thrive in really crummy soil. They like full, hot sun and don’t require a lot of water. Another thing to love is that they attract lots of pollinators. This is a plant for your garden!

Want a Double Red Rose that’s oh-so easy and oh-so beautiful?

Want a Double Red Rose that’s oh-so easy and oh-so beautiful?

We have the 2020 National Rose of the Year, the Proven Winners' Oso Easy Double Red Rose. Easy to grow and maintain, is very disease resistant and you'll enjoy a long-lasting blooming season. Come get yours and create a dreamy, easy rose garden.

Club Sprout: Pollinator Garden

Club Sprout: Pollinator Garden

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Print out the images, color and cut them to make a beautiful and colorful garden inside your home.

Club Sprout: Making a Butterfly Feeder

Club Sprout: Making a Butterfly Feeder

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Let your children get creative as they want with this DIY butterfly feeder!

Invincibelle Ruby Hydrangea is a Showstopper!

Invincibelle Ruby Hydrangea is a Showstopper!

The Invicibelle Ruby is the 2020 Hydrangea of the Year with good reason. Compact, hardy in Zones 3-8, great focal plant. The buds start out a deep ruby red and ppen up to a ruby reddish-pink with a silver overlay.

Club Sprout: Making a Miniature Garden

Club Sprout: Making a Miniature Garden

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Instructions for kiddos on how to make a miniature garden. Club Sprout, a Proven Winners program, is an easy and fun way to get your kids involved with gardening. We have the ideas, you supply your imagination!

A Jewel In Your Landscape: Gem Box Inkberry Holly

A Jewel In Your Landscape: Gem Box Inkberry Holly

Find the Gem Box Inkberry Holly, a sweet little shrub, evergreen hedge and pretty, glossy-leaved addition to your garden right here at Reston Farm Garden Market. Come see why it's the 2020 Landscape Shrub of the Year!

Your garden will really shine with Proven Winners’ Diamond Collection of Euphorbias

Your garden will really shine with Proven Winners’ Diamond Collection of Euphorbias

This collection of white-blossom euphorbias are beautiful accent plants that put sparkle and brightness into your combo plantings and landscape. Diamond Frost, Diamond Mountain and Diamond Snow are the perfect the accent jewels in your garden crown.

What makes the 2020 Flowering Shrub of the Year so gorgeously unusual?

What makes the 2020 Flowering Shrub of the Year so gorgeously unusual?

You're going to love having the gorgeous Blue Chiffon Rose of Sharon in your summer garden. Available at Reston Farm Garden Market.

Can your garden be shady and bright at the same time?

Can your garden be shady and bright at the same time?

Named the 2020 Hosta of the Year, the Shadowland Coast to Coast Host is a striking shade perennial with bold, gold-colored leaves, which really pop and shine, standing out in a shady location. Find them at Reston Farm Garden Market.

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