It was always a pleasure to do business with them. If, after close evaluation of the plant's performance, it doesn't meet Dupont Nursery standards, it is not used. Needless to say, it was a dirty job, but someone had to do it.
Unusually patterned daisylike blooms above a basal rosette.Gazania sales volumes may not be in the same league with that of impatiens or petunias, but with dozens of cultivars, there should be a Gazania for every garden.The intensely colored petals of...
And here it was at Lowe's! Big box stores sometimes offer up such unexpected treasures and at very reasonable prices. Had been to all the nurseries and garden centers within a 40-mile radius, searching for a particular petunia without success.
There are chimney flue tiles just to contain the mints; chocolate, pineapple, lemon, lavender, apple and curly. In our development, we are not allowed to grow any tall trees in our backyards, so I needed something striking without too much height.
Over the Easter weekend we visited my family in Eastern Pennsylvania. Since one of my favorite nurseries—Esbenshade's—is out that way, I lugged my mother, father, nieces and my son for a visit.
Since one of my favorite nurseries—Esbenshade's—is out that way, I lugged my mother, father, nieces and my son for a visit. Over the Easter weekend we visited my family in Eastern Pennsylvania.
So I would suggest planning your spring plant shopping sprees this winter and in the meantime save your pennies. Nothing's worse than realizing you've missed a prime opportunity to buy the perfect plant.
While farmers usually need to grow plants that produce either food or fiber, nursery crops can include flowering plants, shade-giving plants and decorative plants. A few years ago, I started collecting seeds from the plants and now I have hundreds of...
Keep reading for information on the common pot sizes used in nurseries so you can take some of the guesswork and confusion out of your selections.Nursery containers come in a number of sizes.
For both online and home-based businesses, it is crucial to know how to choose a reputable nursery for the best selection, knowledge and pricing.Those first trips as a novice gardener can be overwhelming and the guidance and suggestions of a professional...
While I was there, I had the opportunity to walk around the nursery and check everything out. I'm already looking forward to harvesting all the leaf compost I'm sure to have come spring, but it's hard to believe the holiday season is just around the corner.
They tend to provide the best service and products, and I get to help to support my local economy. Money spent at locally owned merchants tends to be reinvested in your community. Customer Service Perhaps the greatest strength of the local garden center...
The Norfolk Island Pine is some 3x as great a diameter at its base than most Cook Pines. Because everyone else thought the same as I did! All these Christmas trees sold to millions of Americans turn out to be Cook Pines, not Norfolk Island Pines.This...
This week only, we offer to the public those plants and products recently discovered in remote location along the shores of Nevada, and bulbs previously known only to the Sasquatch in the mountains of Iowa.
Shopping for plants at your local nursery is one of the tasks most gardeners look forward to every spring. Ideally, they should not be pot-bound and circling around inside the container.
They're easy to handle. Ford discovered one of my favorite chicken-keeping hacks. There are also small ones that could serve as gravity feeders for chicks in their brooder. Aesthetics may not be your most important consideration, but a good rule when...
Weeds will eventually grow on top of and through these fabrics, making their removal difficult.Geotextiles degrade in the landscape in as little as one year if unprotected from sunlight.The aesthetic quality of landscape fabrics is minimal; it becomes...
Usually, these local garden centers will have plants guaranteed to grow in your location and staff that can answer all your questions. Are cuttings shipped in soil? Based on the pictures you had seen online, you thought you were ordering large, lush plants...
What's the best way to plant it? The care you put into planting a young tree now will be repaid a thousand times over as the tree grows to become a prized feature of your landscape..
Gardening, just like any area, has its own language. There are some, however, that are pretty consistent across the board, and an understanding of them will help greatly in figuring out just what you're looking at.
If you didn't know this was a real plant, you'd have good reason to believe this plant was made from plastic. Of all the Jewel Alocasias, this one has the award for the thickest leaf, as well as the most heavily textured leaf.
Unlike the arms of an octopus, these roots cannot unwrap or unfurl once the tree is planted in the ground. The reason for this doomsaying is simple; standard pots do not allow the development of a healthy radial root system.
Who was the author and why must we ascribe to the rhyme any more than its surface meaning? Not a bad prospect, particularly if my sleuthing happened to coincide with the Chelsea Flower Show!There are three different versions of this nursery rhyme not...
If you grew up with a grandmother or mother that loved and grew roses, then you might just remember the name of her favorite rose bush. So you get an idea to plant your own rose bed and would love to include in it some of the heirloom roses your mother...
Step 10 You can harvest your watercress sprouts at any time. Step 8 Jessica Walliser Leave the plastic dome on the nursery tray until the seeds start to sprout, about six to eight days later.
Our lesson from Northside teacher Shelby Ison: It's possible to reclaim a stream disrupted by years of development and invasive species growth. Ison–and recently named 2006 Conservation Teacher of the Year–incorporates the stream restoration project...
I read about its benefits to wildlife (butterflies and bees in particular) in Doug Tallamy's book Bringing Nature Home (Timber Press, 2007). Buttonbush is a native that I had never seen at any of our local nurseries and figured I would have to buy either...
