DH Garden Centre

DH Garden Centre Family-Owned, Community-Focused. Visit us for quality plants - a touch of green joy for your home!

We offer vibrant indoor plants, rare hoyas, orchids, succulents, Westcoast seeds, outdoor plants & unique handmade products & pottery from Vietnam.

09/14/2026

It is not the cold that cracks a pot. It is the thaw.

Last video I said the thicker pots get through most winters here. This is the exception.

Everything freezes, then it thaws, then you water it, then it freezes again. That cycle is why pots sold as frost proof still crack.

Picking an outdoor pot right now? Comment and I will tell you what I would take.

09/14/2026

Why does a garden that looks amazing all summer go completely dead in winter?

09/13/2026

The bulbs land on Wednesday, September 16. That is the last day of the pre-order price. Order by then and you get the variety you wanted, 10 percent under the shelf price, and after that you choose from what is left. Every order comes with Grow-Along with Darrell through spring. The link is in the first comment.

Pre-order bulbs cost 10% less until they LAND on WednesdayOur fall bulbs land at the store on Wednesday, September 16. U...
09/13/2026

Pre-order bulbs cost 10% less until they LAND on Wednesday

Our fall bulbs land at the store on Wednesday, September 16. Until the end of that day, every pack and collection is at the pre-order price. That is 10 percent under the shelf price . After that day, the shelf price applies.

Here is why the price is lower before the bulbs are on the shelf. Your payment holds one pack from a small lot, with your name on it. So a pre-order is a hold on that pack. The lower price is what you get for holding it early.

Tulips, daffodils, crocus, allium, and hardneck garlic, in seven collections and 68 single packs, and I have planted every one of them myself. They go in the ground in October, because spring bulbs need cold soil first. Do that and the pot by your door has colour from late winter into April.

Picture Sunday evening on the couch, phone in hand, and you scroll past this. If a variety was on your list this year, put it in your order this week. Which one is it?

Every bulb order includes our Grow-Along with Darrell support through spring at no additional cost.

Customers can email DH Garden Centre whenever they have a question about planting, timing, soil, watering, weather, or bulb care, and we aim to reply within 48 hours.

We will also send a simple monthly email from fall through spring explaining what gardeners should be doing that month when to plant, what to watch for, how to care for the bulbs through winter, and what to expect as they begin growing in spring.

Small lots, no reordering. Orders go out the week of September 20. The link is in the first comment, and there is a QR code on our facebook cover photo.

The autumn mistake most our customers in Kitsilano is a fixed watering DAY.The one habit I would change this month is fr...
09/13/2026

The autumn mistake most our customers in Kitsilano is a fixed watering DAY.
The one habit I would change this month is free. Let the soil pick the day. Push a finger two knuckles in before you water. Dry means water. Damp means wait, even if the calendar says it is Sunday.
In July a plant by the window was drinking hard, so a weekly soak made sense. Now the days are shorter and the plant has slowed down, so the same soak leaves the soil wet for weeks.
A money tree came across our counter earlier this month with one braided stem gone soft and dark. It had been watered on a schedule, and the soil never got to dry.
Leaves get read backwards too. Yellow usually means a pot that dried out hard and then got a big drink. Brown patches on a plant that stays damp mean too much water. So people see yellow, water more, and end up with brown.
The plant in the photo sits by our shop window. I am Darrell, and I cannot promise a finger check saves every plant, but it stops the mistake we see most each autumn.
How often are you watering right now, honestly?
The free Vancouver Plant Care and Repotting Guide has the watering section and a cheat sheet for reading leaves. The link is in the first comment. Or bring the plant, or a photo of it, to 3742 West 10th Ave in Kitsilano, open daily 11 to 6:30.

09/13/2026

Repotting has a deadline, and it is late winter.

The aim is to get it done before late winter or spring, so the plants are ready when the growing season starts.

Which is why it becomes a list rather than an afternoon. A few plants at a time.

Pick one plant this week and comment which one you picked.

09/12/2026

The top quarter of the soil should be dry FIRST.

Push a finger in, and if it is still damp, these tropicals do not want water yet. A big pot holds a lot of soil at the bottom, and honestly that is the part that stays wet.

So a bigger pot gets watered less often, not less each time.

Buy the pot here and we repot it at the counter, so you carry out a finished plant. Soil is included up to 5 litres. Past that we charge for the extra soil, though.

You are in the corner by the window with the can. You meant to check properly, but the surface feels dry, so it gets another drink. Do that twice a week and the top goes mouldy while the roots sit in water.

So check the soil rather than the calendar. We will not hand you a watering day.

Bringing your plant in does not commit you to anything.

Which plant of yours has outgrown its pot? We are at 3742 West 10th Ave, Kitsilano, open every day.

09/12/2026

Every customer who walks in brings cold air with them.

Door on one side, front window on the other. Great light, and exactly where people want to stand a plant.

All winter that cold air comes in, and that alone is enough to shock the plant into shedding its foliage.

Door opens all day at your place? Comment what is standing closest to it.

09/12/2026

The interval is longer than most people think.

Smaller grown plants, maybe once every two years.

Bigger ones, once a year to every year and a half. That is the whole answer.

How long has yours been in the same soil? Comment the number.

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3742 West 10th Avenue
Vancouver, BC
V6R2G4

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Monday 11am - 8pm
Tuesday 11am - 8pm
Wednesday 11am - 8pm
Thursday 11am - 8pm
Friday 11am - 8pm
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