April 23rd

With temperatures slowly climbing and a nice weekend on the way, we are stocked and ready. Onto the updates.

Trees & Shrubs: We really are stocked to the brim with plants. The only thing we really don't have a great selection on yet is grasses where we only have a few varieties and that's only because most of them are still just brown twigs. All of our flowering trees, shade trees, evergreen trees, and a huge selection of specimen trees like Japanese Maple too.

Annual Flowers: They have just started to roll in with some of the cold hardier summer annuals like allysum, geraniums, gazania, snap dragons, osteospermum, gerber daisies, and marigolds just to name a handful. More are coming every week.

Perennials: Perennials are starting to come in by the truckload as well with more arriving today from California. We have a lot of peonies both herbaceous and tree form and even a new exciting hybrid with the best qualities of both. Coreopsis, sedge, heuchera, a lot of small ground cover plants, a huge selection of hostas, and many many more.

Vegetables & Herbs: More veggies have been arriving as the temperatures have increased. We have received tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants althought we are keeping them in the greenhouse as it is too cold still at night to keep them out exposed. Also we have lettuce, broccoli, brussel sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, celery, sugar and snow peas, and many more cold hardy crops. Herbs we have a large order coming today with most of what we will be carrying for the season. All the favorites will be here like rosemary, basil, parsley, thyme, oregano and some oddballs too.

Lawn Care: NOW is the time to put down crabgrass preventer to maximize the time that you will be stopping the germination of seed. If you have not already fertilized or put down lime, you can also do these at the same time.

April 1st 2009

The weather is starting to warm up and the plants have been rolling in. Now is the time to fertilize your plants especially those that had a rough winter. Winter burn can be pruned off or you can wait and see if it will grow out of it. Also, now is the time to prune most deciduous shrubs like butterfly bush, roses, hydrangeas, viburnum, barberry, and spirea to name a few.

Lawn Care
Now is the time to lime your lawn. Due to acid rain we all need to lime our lawns to bring the pH to where the grass prefers it. The Jonathon Green product we recommend Mag-I-Cal is more effective at changing the pH as well as giving your lawn calcium which helps it deal with drought in the summertime. Crabgrass Preventer is a few weeks away from being the optimal time to put down. Best time to do that is between April 20th and May 1st. This way you get the longest amount of time when you will be preventing the germination of crabgrass.

Arrivals
Annuals & Perennials
We have a large selection of cold weather annuals including pansies, violas or johnny jump ups, allium, ranunculus, primrose, tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, and geraniums. We just got in a great assortment of peonies and hostas as well as a huge selection of 1 qt. perennials.

Easter Plants
We have a good selection of Orchids, blue and pink hydranges, easter lillies, and all the bulbs you would need. We will be planting up Easter Baskets this coming weekend and all week long.

Vegetables
A wide selection of Lettuce, broccoli, collards, cauliflower, snap peas, beets, cabbage, brussel sprouts, mesclun, onions, and shallots with more coming every week.

Herbs
We have 2 full carts of herbs with all the cool weather crops you can put in now.
Parsley, thyme, oregano, peppermint, rosemary, and chives just to name a few.

Shrubs and Trees
Most of our trees are in with only a handful of types still waiting to come in. Come in now to get the best pick of our selections. Now is the best time to plant to allow the tree to become better established for the summer heat and the winter freeze. Shrubs we are filling up with a lot of nice lilacs, azaleas, rhododendrons, skip laurels, boxwoods, and all the usuals. Come in and check out our selection.

Pond & Fish
Got a new shipment of fish from a new grower and the fish are awesome. The variety of colors and patterns are unlike fish we had gotten in the past. If you lost some fish over the winter you should definitely come down to check out the new stock, it's worth the trip.

We completely remodeled our Fish and Pond room and added a lot of new features. Fountains, water spitters, and prefabricated ponds are all on display.

Pots
We have a great display of pottery unlike anything we've ever had before. Pots of all sizes and colors that can be left out during the winter, you are sure to find something you like.

Officially Spring

It is is officially spring even if your thermometer is registering in the twenties. That hasn't stopped us from getting ready for the season. We have received more than 6 tractor trailers full of material. Some of the early arrivals include; boxwoods, andromeda, rhododendrons, bamboo, Norway spruce, Blue spruce, a great variety of upright and weeping Japanese maples, oak, maple, pear, cottoneaster, deutzia, juniper, Alberta spruce, Otto Luyken cherry laurels, arborvitae, and many more coming every day.

Up front in our annual and perennial section we have Pansies, Violas, Hyacinths, Daffodils, Tulips, Heather, Helleborus, peonies, sedge, a great selection of iris, and a wide variety of herbs. Also coming this week are some cold hardy vegetables like lettuce, leeks, onions, and spinach.

Indoors we have spring bulbs like Callas, Lillies, and Dahlias. Onion sets and seed potatoes are also availabe for purchase. In the greenhouse we have some geraniums, ranunculus, primrose, cinneraria, and other cold loving indoors.

Scratch your early season itch and come in to check out the store. We have a lot of new products and are ready to help you get ready for the growing season.

Early Spring

The days are getting longer and the days are getting warmer. Time to start getting ready for the season, and specifically the vegetable garden season. If you haven't already, now is the time to amend the soil. Add lime or sulfur depending on the pH of your garden and your crop. Add your own compost or have us deliver to your house. Turn it into the soil and let the nutrients be distributed. You can plant a few cold weather crops right in the ground like Spinach, Peas, and Radishes with no protection. You can also start some crops you can start in the greenhouse if you have one or in a cold frame. Cold frames are an excellent way to get a head start on the veggie season and to get plants acclimated to the cooler nights of the early spring. Easy to build or we have some for sale as well.


Here is a simple design. Anyway, you can start seedlings in here. Leeks, lettuce, onions, spinach, turnips, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, celery, chives, and parsley can all be planted in a cold frame.

Fall in Full Swing

Fall is here and we have everything you need to decorate your home. Pumpkins of all sizes from munchins all the way to 250 lb + pumpkins. We have a great selection of gourds of varying sizes and shapes, as well as mini straw bales, indian corn, corn stalks, ghouls, ghosts, and other decorations for Halloween.

Mums are still pouring in from 4" all the way up to bushel basket sizes. We also have a great selection of hanging basket and belden hanging mums.

Norway spruce, Blue spruce, Arborvitae, and White Pine also have come in for fall planting and are going fast.

Sale Items - We still have our 60% off section with a wide variety of shrubs and some small trees, as well as an awesome selection of $4.00 cutback perennials. Fall is a great time to plant to get them established for an excellent blooming season next year.

Sept 3rd - Mums have arrived

Mums have arrived and started to show color. We have over 1000 in stock with more coming weekly. Sizes in stock are 4", 6", 8", 12", bushel baskets, belden hanging baskets, and regular hanging baskets. Other cold hardy flowers including Cabbage, Asters, Kale, and Deer Resistant Snap Dragons .

We are still bringing in shrubs and trees for fall planting including a large shipment of evergreens. White Pine, Blue Spruce, Norway Spruce, Arborvitae, and others will be arriving on this Friday.

Also, don't miss our 60% OFF section on the back walk with a great selection of Deer Resistant Boxwood.

Things to watch out for
- Deer Damage - Getting time for male deer to rub their antlers on trees to remove the velvet and mark territory. Wrap your new trees and low branching trees especially. Also, with the drought and therefore lack of grass, Deer have been getting aggressive eating a lot of perennials and shrubs. Be sure to spray them to keep the Deer away.

- Drying out - With little water for about 3 weeks now, even well established plants can feel the heat and dry out and die. Keep on the watch for sagging leaves and dull coloration. Generally a good soaking of about a 1/2 hr to an hour for each plant depending on size will do the trick to bring them back.

August 21 - 30% Off All Shrubs & Trees

Fall is approaching fast and we have put ALL Shrubs and Trees on sale at 30% off. In addition we also have Azaleas for 50% off and a special 60% off section with a variety of shrubs in it including lilac and burning bush. Also on sale are hybrid tea roses for $10 a piece, and cut back perennials are still only $4.00 with an excellent selection to make next years garden beautiful.

MUMS are in. We have over 600 mums now in stock in 8" pots in an assortment of fall colors. 4" Mums, Asters, Cabbage and Kale will also be arriving today.

Fall flowering perennials like Sedum, Crocosmia, and Rudbeckia are also in stock and blooming.

Finally, DEER DAMAGE will start soon. Wrap Your Trees! Bucks often times will go after new and shorter trees because they can reach desirable places to rub their trees and to mark their new territory as well. Prevention is the best medicine against rubbing, so wrap your trees. It only costs a few dollars to save your tree.