The month of June brings warmer days and an entire new grouping of trees in bloom. Here are a few that we would like to share with you. Cornus kousa- This dogwood is a native of Korea and Japan. It makes an excellent landscape tree and offers a long season of interest. Starting in the […]
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Have you ever seen window boxes that looked gorgeous as well as some that looked overgrown or lopsided or water-logged? What is the key to successful and beautiful boxes? Here are a few tips to help you in your planning: 1. Pick window boxes that have holes for drainage. Plastic pots need to have holes
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As the weather gets warmer and the Impatiens start blooming- many people get confused about the difference between regular impatiens and New Guinea Impatiens and where to plant each. Here is a simple explanation. New Guinea Impatiens are a hybrid and they have been called “sun impatiens” because they tolerate more sun that the standard
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Fall is a great time to plant nursery stock such as trees and shrubs. The reason it is a good time to plant is because as the soil cools off in the fall, the roots become very active until hard frost, which usually occurs in late November or December. This is a good time to
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Ornamental grasses are very valuable additions to any landscape. They give interest in the garden for up to 9 months- emerging in the late spring, giving beautiful foliage texture all summer and coming into bloom in the fall and persisting into the winter. There are few plants that contribute that much to the garden. We
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We have a beautiful selection of roses available for this summer ranging from the low maintenance and tough landscape roses such as Flower Carpets and Knockout Roses to Hybrid Teas and Floribunda Roses. Whatever your garden is like we have a rose for you. Here are a few roses we would like to highlight: Knockout
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Pink is one of the most popular colors in the garden. There are many varieties of perennials that come in pink such as Echinacea, Sedums, Dianthus, Astilbe and more. But here are a few that you may not be familiar with to add to your pink collection. Paeonia ‘Coral Fay’– This gorgeous variety of Peony
Clematis is a Cape Cod tradition with its showy blue flowers spread over trellis and arbors. In addition to the standard dark blue, there are other unusual flowering varieties that you may not be familiar with. One of the successful growing tips for all Clematis is that they prefer to have their roots cool and
As we progress into the summer, we look for shrubs that will continue to bring color and interest into the landscape. Here are a few examples of late May-early June shrubs that are now in bloom. Azalea Gibraltar- This outstanding azalea is in the Exbury group of hybrids. It is a deciduous shrub (loses its
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Even after the Memorial Day rush, we are stocked up with an amazing selection of annuals to plant into your garden, containers or hanging pots. We have a beautiful selection of new guinea impatiens, supertunias, calibrachoa (mini-petunia), verbena and many more varieties of your favorite bedding plants and specialty annuals. Here are a few
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