Plant of the Month
Hosta- Plantain Lily
All you shade gardeners will be happy with this plant of the month selection. Hostas are grown for their foliage, although they do flower with white to light blue or purple spikes in the summer. There are hundreds of varieties from little dwarfs to over two foot tall. The leafs colors come in golds, greens, blues, limes and variegated yellows and whites. The leaves can be huge or small, mooth, wavy or crinkled. They all go completely dormant for winter and look good in the ground or containers. Grow hostas in bright shade or filtered sun and they look best in good soil. They need regular water and need protection from slugs and snails who find them particularly tasty. Bait with Sluggo if you find holes in your beautiful foliage. I find them to be an undemanding plant that looks better and better as the clumps grow with no special care. Many people are hosta collectors and have large areas planted of many types.
We have 4” pots at $1.00 off regular price and 1 gal. at $2.00 off regular price.
May specials
- Green-All Organic Potting Soil 2cf
Buy 3 get 4th FREE - Green-All Soil Booster (for your vegie and flower beds)
Buy 3 get 4th FREE - Roses
Buy 2 and get 3rd at half price - Plant of the month – Hosta
$1.00 OFF 4” and $2.00 OFF 1 gal.
May 2013 Newsletter
It has been a busy spring so far, perhaps the driest spring since we opened the nursery, and the nice weather has brought many of you in. I want to thank all of you for supporting us. It also means that many of our vegetable and annual suppliers were caught off guard and have had trouble keeping up with demand. We have still managed to get a wide selection of vegetable starts in, including lots of new to us heirlooms. A few things I have been looking for I have not seen. I know many of you are still waiting to be sure all danger of frost is over and we will continue to supply vegetable starts thru May.
Now that the ground has warmed up you can start things directly in the ground from seed. Good things to sow to eat that are easy from seed are squash, beans, corn, melons, pumpkins and cukes. There are lots of flowers that start easy from seed too. Try marigolds, zinnias, sunflowers, nasturtiums and morning glories. We have re-ordered seeds on all these things so we can keep you supplied.
The nursery has gone thru its spring transformation from being bare and bloom less to lush and full offlowers. We are running out of space to put things. We are still waiting on our potted formerly bare-root shade tree stock to pop some leaves, but just about all the roses and fruit trees have leafed. The roses are starting to bloom along with this years spring crop of aphids. As many of you know we release ladybugs regularly so do not often use an insecticide. I consider it a given that roses will have aphids in spring and go with it.
As dry as it has been I am a little surprised that I have peach leaf curl on some of the peaches and something on a few of the plums too. As a matter of fact I am not sure what has caused the plums to get distorted leaves so if anyone knows what is going on there they can educate me. Always something to learn all the time in this business.
We were pretty successful with growing Proven Winner plugs again this year, putting a lot of Supertunias into pots so we can offer them at a good price point. The breeders are having a field day with petunias with so many new lines available that I can not keep track. The Lemon Slice Calibrochoa flew out of here last weekend but I have more on the way. Many have asked about lantana and annual vinca but they have not been available yet. These are some of the last things for the wholesalers to grow as they need consistent warm weather. We will have them when they become available.
I have a new product I will be trying myself called Earthshine. The claim is that instead of having to use fresh soil in your containers every year the granular product will replace all the goodies my veggies sucked out of it last year. I will just be adding this to my old soil. Ask about it if you are interested. We are also stocking their myccrorhyze and water purifier.
We just unpacked more nursery whimsy and iron just in time for Mothers Day. We have a buy 2 and get a third for half price special on roses. We just planted up some of those moss purses and have lots of Star Gardens grown hanging baskets and mixed containers.
Shrubs in color right now are Snowball, Cranberry Bush, Mock Orange, Ceanothus, Fremontia, Broom and Rockrose. Come in to feast your eyes on all our splendor. It does not quit.
Happy Gardening,
Tanya