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06/14/2026

Stop by All Green Thumbs Nursery at Carroll’s Ace Hardware in Tega Cay and pick up your plants and gardening supplies.
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06/14/2026

Sweet Pepperbush, Clethra alnifolia, Celebrated for its dense clusters of highly fragrant, creamy-white bottle-brush flowers.
Flowers are very attractive to butterflies and bees.
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06/14/2026

Clethra alnifolia 'Hummingbird' (commonly known as Summersweet or Sweet Pepperbush)
Celebrated for its dense clusters of highly fragrant, creamy-white bottle-brush flowers, it blooms in mid-to-late summer, attracting hummingbirds, bees, and butterflies.
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Clethra alnifolia 'Hummingbird' (commonly known as Summersweet or Sweet Pepperbush) Clethra alnifolia, commonly called summersweet, is a deciduous shrub that

06/14/2026

If your tomato bed turns into a tangle of overgrown cages by August, single-stake pruning is what most market gardeners and serious backyard growers use instead. One stake per plant, one main stem trained straight up, side shoots removed weekly. 🍅

The plant stops dividing energy across dozens of branches and puts it into the fruit clusters on that single vertical stem. Airflow stays open between plants, foliage dries faster after rain, and fungal pressure drops significantly compared to dense caged plants where leaves stay wet against each other all day.

Here's the full setup:

Drive the stake at transplant time, not after. An 8-foot hardwood or metal stake goes in 18 inches deep, 4 inches from the stem, before the roots have spread. Installing it later risks severing the root system you've spent weeks building.

Tie with stretchy tape in a figure-8 pattern. One loop around the stake, one around the stem, with the crossover between them — this keeps the stem from pressing directly against the stake and rubbing as it grows. Add a new tie every 6 to 8 inches of new growth. Avoid twine and wire: both cut into the thickening stem over time.

Snap suckers weekly while they're small. Every junction between a leaf branch and the main stem produces a new shoot. Left alone, each one becomes a full branch. Removed at pencil-thickness or smaller, they snap off cleanly with your fingers. Wait too long and you're making a wound the plant has to heal.

Leave the growing tip alone. Only remove the side shoots — not the top of the plant. The exception is late in the season (typically 4 to 6 weeks before your first frost date), when topping the plant stops new flower production and forces the plant to ripen what's already set on the vine.

Why the spacing advantage matters: single-stemmed tomatoes can be planted 12 to 18 inches apart in a row instead of 3 to 4 feet for caged plants. That's two to three times as many plants per bed with cleaner access, eye-level fruit clusters, and no reaching into a cage to find what's ripe. 🌱

One stake. One stem. A row that stays productive and manageable all the way to frost.

06/13/2026

Hemerocallis ‘Joan Senior’ is a highly popular, multi-award-winning reblooming daylily.
Revered for having some of the closest to pure white blooms,
it features massive 6-inch flowers with lightly ruffled edges and soft lime-green throats.
It thrives in USDA Hardiness Zones 3 to 9 and is incredibly hardy, low-maintenance, and drought-tolerant once established.
The name is Greek and has two parts: hemera, meaning day, and kallos, meaning beauty.
Stop by All Green Thumbs Nursery at Carroll’s Ace Hardware in Tega Cay
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06/13/2026

Hemerocallis Joan Senior – Daylilies
The name is Greek and has two parts: hemera, meaning day, and kallos, meaning beauty. Stop by All Green Thumbs Nursery at Carroll’s Ace Hardware in Tega Cay.

Hemerocallis 'Joan Senior' is a highly popular, multi-award-winning reblooming daylily. Revered for having some of the closest to pure white blooms, it

06/12/2026

All Green Thumbs Nursery has added several new shrubs to the line up. The Ilex Soft Touch and Ilex Carissa are evergreen and very compact. Perfect to add some green to a corner of the deck or patio.
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All Green Thumbs Nursery has added several new shrubs to the line up.   The Ilex Soft Touch and Ilex Carissa are evergreen and very compact. Perfect to

06/11/2026

New Shrubs, This weeks additions include Hydrangeas, pink & white Azaleas, Butterfly Bushes and Crape Myrtles.
Stop by All Green Thumbs Nursery at Carroll’s Ace Hardware in Tega Cay

Most could be grown in larger decorator pots on a deck or tucked into a corner of the yard.

06/09/2026

Wax begonias (Semperflorens Begonias)
These are tough, ever-blooming herbaceous annuals and houseplants famous for their glossy leaves and continuous red blooms.
Red Begonias are vibrant, versatile plants celebrated for their show-stopping crimson blooms or dramatic, metallic-red leaves.
Whether you are planting them outdoors in the summer or keeping them as indoor foliage plants, they add a bold pop of color to any space.
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06/09/2026

Red And Yellow Wax Begonias
These are tough, ever-blooming herbaceous annuals and houseplants famous for their glossy leaves and continuous red blooms.
Red Begonias are vibrant, versatile plants celebrated for their show-stopping crimson blooms or dramatic, metallic-red leaves.

Wax begonias (Semperflorens Begonias) These are tough, ever-blooming herbaceous annuals and houseplants famous for their glossy leaves and continuous red