These outrageously beautiful blooms are popping open all over Hampton Roads right now. A garden favorite, who doesn’t love the low maintenance, ruffly big flowers of a peony? These blooms are the quintessential cut flower, so remember to cut the blooms and bring them inside for colorful indoor vases. Peonies come in several varieties: Tree peonies, Herbaceous peonies and a cross of the two -- Itoh peonies.
Featured Recipe Exclusively for McDonald Garden Center
Tian Méditerranéen
A classic French Mediterranean vegetarian dish, this fresh side is perfect for your Saturday evening cookout. Fragrant, colorful and easy to make, Tian Méditerranéen brings the elegance of the French Riviera to your table.
By now, you may have heard the buzz on the bee problem threatening the vitality of our fruits and vegetables. With bees and other pollinators being eradicated at an alarmingly fast rate, the need for action has reached its critical point. Luckily, McDonald Garden Center offers a number of ways to not only encourage pollinators in your garden, but beautify your space in the process.
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. Now days, you can find petunias in just about any color or form you want, bi-colored, single flowered, double flowered, ruffled, mounding, spreading or spilling.