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Gardening can bring unending joy…beautiful flowers, delicious homegrown veggies, attracting birds to your yard…all wonderful benefits of gardening. If it weren’t for those pesky weeds, gardening would be the highlight of just about everybody’s life. If only there was way to avoid weeds altogether…if only… Oh, wait! GardenSoxx® can help you Simplify Your Love of [...]

Spring is here at The Rock Pile Garden Center!

Hummingbirds are the only birds that consistently hover in flight. The unique anatomy of the bones and muscles of the wing and its attachment at the shoulder joint allow hummingbirds to fly even backward. While hovering, a hummingbird beats its wings at a rate of around 55 times per second. That rate increases to at [...]

Who doesn’t love sitting around a fire in the summer? Just in time for the summer season, you can enjoy the crackle of a fire in your own backyard. Now through May 31st enter to win a free fire pit kit. This kit includes 49 bricks, 4 bags of #10 Limestone and 2 bags of Blue Granite (delivery NOT included). With easy pick-up and straight-forward instructions anyone could easily put together this pit in their own backyard. Stop in to see our color choices (greystone featured in the photo above) and enter the drawing today!

“The nutrition your fruits and vegetables provide for you is only as good as the nutrition you provide for you soil.” -Milo Lou Shammas   From the root of organic integrity, sprouts Dr. Earth. Featuring organic innovation for the home gardener.   Learn more on April 24th at 5pm! Registration helpful but not necessary.  Register [...]

Sometimes nicknamed “blue canaries,” these brilliantly colored yet common and widespread birds whistle their bouncy songs through the late spring and summer all over eastern North America. Look for Indigo Buntings in weedy fields and shrubby areas near trees, singing from dawn to dusk atop the tallest perch in sight or foraging for seeds and insects in low vegetation.

Stop into The Rock Pile and enter our drawing for FREE MULCH! The winner of the drawing will receive $150 off their mulch order.

We all know birds need to eat and drink to survive. But quite often we forget about their shelter. Not all birds create their own homes. Some birds like woodpeckers and chickadees excavate cavities in tree trunks for nesting and roosting.

A rare treat for Ohio residents is to see a snowy owl, also known as the Arctic, great white, and ghost owl. A shortage of lemmings and voles in the owl’s arctic home can drive these nomad hunters as far south as Ohio in search of food.

We’ve always known we had the best customers around, and you all proved it once again! There were so many entries from The Rock Pile, the folks at Squirrel Buster knew our store code by heart! And THREE of you, our awesome customers, won! Congratulations to Lillian & William Switaj – Bay Village Denise Gerboc [...]

Attracting these little backyard visitors is as easy as one, two, FEED! Seriously, when it comes to the Downy Woodpecker, if you supply them with the right feed, they will be return visitors all year round.

Life has gotten busier and busier, leaving little time to dedicate to those organizations that are near and dear to our hearts. But, there is something you can do that doesn’t add one single thing to your schedule.