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Plant Care—Proven Winners® makes it easy!
Planted in the right place, most plants require little special care. They simply need the proper amount of light, water and fertilizer. For special care instructions for your plants, check the Proven Winners® tag in the pot when you buy or read about using the right plant in the right place .
Proven Winners® provides gardeners with an ever-expanding list of plants developed for easy care and outstanding garden performance. Many are self-cleaning (no deadheading) and need no pruning when properly placed for their full size.
Get more plant care tips from these articles:
Learn the general rules of thumb for pruning flowering shrubs.
Mulching your garden can help protect it against winter damage. This article covers how and why to apply winter mulch.
The two most common questions we get about Ornamental grasses are "When should I cut my grass back" and "How and when should I divide my ornamental grass?" This article goes through tips and techniques on cutting back and dividing grasses.
This article goes over techniques for overwintering plants that must remain green and growing through the winter.
One of the most basic questions on gardening is whether you are looking for a sun or shade plant, or maybe something in between. This simple idea can be difficult to define if you don't understand what constitutes full sun, full shade, and partial sun/shade. This article will go over the basics of sun and shade and how to determine which category different areas should be labeled.
