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Flowers to Bring Home in March

March is an exciting month to shop at Hyams — the greenhouse and outdoor displays fill with blooming color! 🌸

From cheerful annuals to rich perennials, this is a wonderful time to plan your floral palette for spring and summer. 

Beautiful blooms to look for:

Cool-season favorites — pansies, snapdragons, and dianthus add instant charm.

Perennials — look for early bloomers like salvia, agastache, and coreopsis that will return year after year.

Planter combinations — mix textures with trailing vines, bright annuals, and leafy greens.

Design idea: Create a porch planter with three heights — tall spiky blooms, medium mounded flowers, and cascading vines — for a dynamic look from every angle.

Gardens grow when we care — and in Charleston’s mild spring, you’ll feel that life stirring under every leaf.

Stop in, meet our team, and let’s grow something beautiful together! 

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Grow an Early Vegetable Patch

For home gardeners in Charleston, March is prime planning time for a productive vegetable garden. Whether you want fresh greens for salads or hearty crops that transition into summer, now is when gardens start humming. 

Perfect picks for early planting:

Greens — Lettuce, mustard, spinach, collards, and peas thrive in cool spring weather.

Root veggies — Radishes and beets grow quickly and can be planted outdoors.

Onions and leeks — Sets and starts do well this month.

Herbs — Cilantro, parsley, dill, and chives love cool soil.

Pro tips from Hyams:

Choose well-draining soil with plenty of organic matter.

Water consistently — young seedlings don’t like drying out.

Ask our horticulturists which varieties perform best in our coastal conditions.

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March in the Lowcountry: What to do in the Garden?

Spring starts here long before the calendar says so!

The Charleston area has a mild climate, and while the official start of spring is around March 20th, many gardeners feel it quietly begin in early March. This month is all about planning, prepping, and planting cool-season crops while the soil warms up. 

What to focus on this month:

Soil preparation – Turn beds, remove winter debris, incorporate compost and slow-release fertilizer.

Plant cool-season veggies — Sow or transplant peas, spinach, radishes, and leafy greens. Charleston’s typical last frost is mid-March, so cool crops have a head start. 

Start warm-season seeds indoors — Tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants can be started now so they’re ready to go after frost.

Containers & pots — Refresh your patio planters with vibrant cool-weather annuals.

Hyams tip: Stop by for soil mixes, compost, seedlings, and planting tools — our team is here to help every step of the way! 

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2026 Tree of the Year: The Live Oak

The Grand Guardian of the Lowcountry

Some trees grow.
Some trees survive.
But the Southern Live Oak — Quercus virginiana — endures.

Standing like quiet sentinels across historic avenues, churchyards, coastal marsh edges, and Charleston gardens, the Live Oak is more than a species. It is a companion to time — a living archive of stories whispered through Spanish moss.

🌿 Why the Live Oak Is a Tree Worth Honoring

The Live Oak earns its laurels through:

  • Strength and longevity — many live for centuries, some older than the cities that surround them
  • Canopies of majesty — branches that stretch horizontally, offering cathedral-like shade
  • Ecological devotion — a single oak can support hundreds of species: insects, birds, squirrels, owls, fungi, and more
  • Salt and storm resilience — a tree built for Lowcountry winds and brackish whispers from the Atlantic

If the landscape had a backbone, it might very well be oak.

🕊 Symbolism: What the Oak Teaches Us

Throughout history and across cultures, oak trees symbolize:

  • Strength that does not need to shout
  • Wisdom earned through seasons
  • Protection, like a grandmother’s quilt
  • Endurance, both quiet and unwavering

If delphiniums inspire us to reach upward,
the oak reminds us gently to stand our ground.

📚 A Brief Botanical Lesson (Disguised as Poetry)

The Live Oak keeps its leaves — thus the name — evergreen in spirit, even when winter sighs.
It roots deeply, but its branches stretch wide — a lesson in balance if ever a gardener needed one.

To help one flourish:

  • Plant where roots may spread and air may wander
  • Water deeply in youth — so age may be prosperous
  • Mulch well, and it will answer with shade

This is not a tree you plant for your lifetime alone —
but for the next generation who will sit beneath it.

✨ Whimsy Worth Remembering

If the Live Oak could send a postcard, it might read:

“I have stood here long before you.
I will stand long after.
But today — today I am glad you noticed me.”

And somewhere, under a bowing branch,
a squirrel nods knowingly.