May 5th - Mothers Day Week

Mother's Day Specials

Cocoa Lined Large Mixed Hanging Baskets - Regularly $49.95 - Now $39.95
Orchids in Bloom - Reg. $39.95 - Now $29.95
Lilacs - All Lilacs 10% Off
Also all our Hybrid Tea Roses, and large mixed planters will be coming in this week which make great gifts. And we also have Gift Cards if you have no idea what to get.

Vegetables & Herbs: This week we'll be receiving a large shipment of the more tender vegetables including a huge selection of Tomatoes, Eggplant, squash, and all the others we haven't had yet. Huge shipment of herbs coming in including Basil. Also got in some HUGE fig trees, 7-8' tall and already producing figs. Get them while they last, they are moving quickly.

Annuals: Most of the tender annuals will be coming in like Impatiens, Begonias, and Lobelia. Great selection of 4" & 6" specialties with a lot more arriving this week. Also a ton of hanging baskets for both Sun and Shade.

Perennials: They are starting to roll off the trucks in 3 gallon pots with a lot in bloom including Deer Resistant Salvia. Fresh stock every week.

Shrubs and Trees: The yard is full. Not much room for more plants and a lot of stuff in full flower as well as a lot pushing new growth. Awesome selection of Deer Resistant Boxwoods from 1 gal. all the way up to 54". Kwanzan Cherry is blooming and is an awesome tree. They are selling quick and also could make a great Mothers day gift that would give every year.

April 17th

The weather is warming up and the plants are rolling off by the truckload.

Annuals & Perennials: For annuals we have an ever widening selection including Geranium, pansy, snap dragons, ranunculus, primrose, ivy geraniums, maple geraniums, and a great selection of hanging baskets for both the sun and shade. Mixed baskets are looking good already. Perennial wise we are starting to get in some good looking plants from North Carolina and are showing great color with some flowering. Heuchera is one looking great right now, an awesome selection of ferns and other shade loving plants are also in. Too many perennials to name. We received a huge shipment of 1 qt. perennials which are just starting to break soil and are ready to be planted.

Shrubs & Trees: A lot of azaleas just about to bloom, a plethora of grasses, new bamboo, an awesome selection of andromedas with a new variety Valley Valentine that has a red bell flower instead of the usual white. More boxwoods especially 1 gallons. Specialty grafted spruces and interesting specimen plants, a huge supply of japanese maples in uprights and weeping in all sizes and several varieties, and everything else we normally stock. The lot is filling up with more to come. Trees wise we got in a trailer of norway spruce in 5-6' and 6-7', as well as a lot of white pines in the 6-7' range. Both make excellent evergreen screens and hedges with Norways being shade tolerant. Really too much stuff to fit into a paragraph.

Gardening: Great time to plant potatoes, seed onions, garlic, and asparagus roots. Also, peas and other frost tolerant plants can be sown now. We have plenty of cold tolerant veggies ready to be planted and an excellent and expanding selection of herbs. Come and plant today and be eating fresh from the garden in two weeks.

April 3rd

While the weather isn't cooperating, we are still receiving truckloads of material. Here is the rundown on new stuff.

In the Garden: Cold hardy vegetables including a variety of lettuces, broccoli, cabbage, escarole, mesclum, and a couple others I'm forgetting. Some herbs are in, but we've been careful with them due to the freezing at night.

Annuals & Perennials: We received pansies in flats, 4", 6", 8", and belden hanging baskets. Ranunculus in 4" and 6" as well, with a great selection of flowering bulbs still available. Daffodils, tulips, hyacinth, and grape hyacinth. Anything you plant now will come up for years to come as well. Perennials we got a good shipment in from Monrovia including German Iris in several varieties, some Salvia, coreopsis, helleborus, lenten rose, lamium, anemone, mountain pinks, plus more I've forgotten.

Trees & Shrubs: Dogwoods have come in and are looking great this year. The largest dogwoods are easily the nicest we've had in years and the biggest as well. Also a great number of magnolias have come in budded and ready to bloom. The shrub lot has been filling in fast with barberry, spirea, more azaleas, and junipers. Also, a whole trailer load of boxwood have come in. Sizes all the way up to 48" and looking good.

March 26th

We received a few more trailers of plant material in the last few days so I'll give you a quick rundown on some of it.

Flowers: Pansies in oval planters, Ranunculus, nice 6" Geraniums, and still have a great variety of bulbs that will last for a few more weeks and then can be planted and will come up year after year. Perennials include Helleborus, Anemone, Lentil Rose and a few other cold weather lovers.

Shrubs: A lot of nice plants with some in bloom and ready to bloom. PJM, Olga, and Purple Gem Rhododendrons in a few sizes. Good selection of Junipers, a few varieties of Spirea, Lilacs, Holly, Lecothue, and some nice Boxwoods. If you are looking for something particular, call, we may have it.

Trees: HUGE shipment of trees this week with the lot almost full of them. Maples, Oaks, Red Buds, Cherry, Plum, Norway Spruce, Blue Spruce, White Pine, Hemlock, Large Lilacs, Magnolia, and a few others I'm surely forgetting. Come down while the selection is fresh . This picture is a small sampling of the trees.

March 17th, 2008 - First Post of Spring

This season we will stay on top of this blog and keep it updated weekly with what is going in at the nursery as well as stuff you should be doing at your home and in the garden.

Plant Arrivals: The season has begun and plant material has started rolling in. As far as annual flowers we have an assortment of forced bulbs such as hyacinth, daffodils, and tulips, pansy's in flats off all colors, and 10" pansy belden hanging baskets. A truck from Monrovia has brought in some early perennials including Helleborus, Anemone, Ferns, Peonies, Gaultheria, and some Hosta. In shrubs we received a load of 600 Forsythia, some grafted Montgomery Blue Spruce, Wisteria, Scarlet Wonder Dwf. Rhododendron, PJM Rhododendron, Hydrangea, Green Panda Bamboo, Albury Purple St. John's Wort, Korean Lilac, and a few others I'm forgetting. In trees we received some large Nelly Stevens Holly, Autumn Blaze Red Maple, Crimson King Maple, Kousa Dogwood, Thunderhead Plum, Pin Oak, Red Oak, Sun Burst Honey Locust, a few varieties of Crab Apple, and a few Emerald Green Arborvitae. All trees are without leaves but are ready to be planted, the earlier the better.

Vegetable Garden: Time to plant, time to start seeds. Lettuce, onion seeds and sets, spinach, and other cold hardy crops can be planted directly in the ground. All other seeds can be started indoors and we have all the necessary equipment to do so including seed trays, potting soil, and grow lights. Also an excellent time to turn the garden and expose any burrowed insects to the cold nights.

Lawn: Crabgrass Preventer. Within the next two weeks is the time to throw down crabgrass preventer as well as doing an early spring feeding. We have a product that does both in one simple application. You can also overseed now as well as throw down new seed.

Hope to get some pictures up in the next few days.

Fall

While the weather does not suggest it, fall is here. Now is a great time to plant bulbs which are an easy way to create early spring color at your home or office. Daffodils, grape hyacinth, hyacinth, and several others are deer resistant and add great color.

Also, be on the lookout for grub damage due to our extended warm fall, if you notice it is a great time to kill them with Dylox. They come in 5,000 and 10,000 sq. ft. bags.

Finally, Happy Halloween.

Later Summer

Arrivals:

• Mums in 6" & 8" containers, 10" hanging pots, 10" hanging belden pots, and 14" pots all in a wide variety of colors.
  
• Perennials continue to come in blooming including Lavender, Catmint, Sundown Cone Flower, Black Eyed Susan, and many more.

What to watch for:

• DEER DAMAGE - Now is the time of year when Bucks in Rut will rub their antlers on younger trees and branches marking territory and rubbing the fuzz from their antlers. Take care to wrap your trees with any wrap, we sell several. A few dollars now can save your new tree from damage and possible death.

• Continue to watch for powdery mildew and other fungi attacking your plants and lawn. With all the hot humid and wet weather it is a great breeding ground for a lot of types of mold and mushrooms.