How Does Your Garden Grow?

Fresh summer vegetables, fruits and flowers, along with some amazing baked goods, were available at Plymouth Harbor Market Days last Thursday. Share your gardening photos on Patch.

Fresh summer vegetables, fruits and flowers, along with some amazing baked goods, were available at Plymouth Harbor Market Days last Thursday. Share your gardening photos on Patch. Yacht Club Soda. Brigadeiro Barn homemade Brazillian truffles. Nash Nursery offers a variety of annuals and perrenials. Duxbury's famous Island Creek oysters are available by the dozen, but can you only eat a dozen? The Cape Cod Cookie Company offers several flavors, but the best have cranberries. Westport Winery and Vineyard features wines produced right here in Massachsuetts and served in the White House. Silverbrook Farm offers jams, jellies, and mustards to go along with their fresh vegetables.

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Has Spring Sprung in Your Backyard?

It's been a beautiful couple of days, and the early spring flowers are poking their heads out of the earth that never really froze this winter. Share your flower pictures with Patch.

It's been a beautiful couple of days, and the early spring flowers are poking their heads out of the earth that never really froze this winter. Share your flower pictures with Patch.

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Five Things You Need to Know Today: Feb. 14

If you forget everything else, don't forget the chocolate.

It's Valentine's Day, and if you've been under a rock and haven't made plans yet, here are a few last-minute ideas for you 1. Get the chocolate. Heart-shaped boxes are OK, but if you really forgot, you'd better spring for the good stuff. 2. The flowers. Ever female in her office is getting flowers today. If you don't have them delivered, make sure they're in the passenger seat when you pull in the driveway. 3. Most restaurants are taking reservations, but there might be a few places you can take her. 4. The first three fail? You'd better pull out the plastic and head to the jewelry store. 5. If you can't get a table, too broke to buy jewelry, she doesn't like flowers, and she's allergic to chocolate, be ready to do something outrageous. …

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Roses are Red, and Sometimes Pink

Selecting the right flowers for your sweetie is important. Here's a hint: roses are usually a good idea.

While some people go all out for Valentine's Day, all you really need is a box of good chocolate and a bottle or two of wine to keep many women happy. But Valentine's Day is on a Tuesday, which means that all the other women in her office will be receiving bouquets of flowers at their desks. So, even women who aren't big fans of Valentine's Day (such as this writer), always liked receiving flowers at the office. There are plenty of places in town to buy flowers. Here's our listing of florists in Plymouth. According to ProFlowers.com the color of your roses is important. Give your girlfriend yellow roses might seem like a good idea if her favorite color is yellow, but not if you want to keep her as a girlfriend. Here's a simple guide: Red …

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PHOTOS: Late Summer Flowers

The leaves are just beginning to change on some trees, but the flowers are still colorful.

The leaves are just beginning to change on some trees, but the flowers are still colorful.

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Patch Picks: May Flowers

After weeks of April showers, it’s finally time to start thinking about where to buy their May flowers (and we don’t mean the one docked in Plymouth Harbor).

Coletta Candini, president of the Plymouth Garden Club, knows a lot about plants, flowers and local gardening. This week, we asked her to suggest some of her favorite spots to buy planting flowers. Candini recommends locals looking to improve their gardens head to the County Farm this year. Run by six corrections officers, who also happen to be certified horticulturalists, the 90-acre farm is maintained by inmates throughout the year. This spring, locals can also bring their children, to enjoy a warm May day at the farm’s free petting zoo. While moms shop for mums, kids can see bulls, pigs, tortoises, chickens, cows and sheep. Morrison’s Home and Garden on Long Pond Road also has plenty of flowers to liven up any yard. With a nursery and …

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Green Thumbs: Where Do You Go to Make Your Garden Bloom

Do you know a gardening center that has the best flowers, the best advice and the best ways deterrents for those deer? Share your choice with Patch Picks.

Do you have a certified organic green thumb? A love of getting dirty in the garden? Do you have an ongoing war with the neighborhood squirrels that ate all of your strawberries last year despite your best efforts? Than you are qualified to give us some picks. Share your choice for the best garden centers in Plymouth, where the advice is always good, the flowers are always colorful and the employees share your hatred of fuzzy gray rodents. Share your choices for the best garden centers in Plymouth and Thursday we'll add them to our Patch Picks. Happy gardening!

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