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Hanging Baskets by the 100's. For you or Mom...
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Freshen Your Home with Blooming Plants & Don't Forget Mom!
Thousands of Perennials are Here! Plus...
Primroses, violets, herbs, hyacinth, phlox & orchids of all shapes and stripes.
Hanging baskets, roses, flowering trees, hummingbird feeders...
Mother's Day is Sunday May 11...
It's Spring so get your garden going with with organic fertilizers and weed preventers. Mulch and soils are on sale, too! Just click Specials at left to see the deals.
* * CURRENT HOURS * * -
We're open daily 8 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
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Come Treat Yourself to Some Spring Color.
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Potted Spring Bulbs Can be Placed Right in the Garden...
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Time to Plant: Pansies & Violas
In baskets, pots or ready for beds.
These bright and sunny beauties are
ready to harden off and
plant outside now!
Baskets $12.95 to $24.95
Six-pack just $2.99 ea.
or
Pick up a flat of
48 plants for
$17.95
Smart Gardening depends on
planting the right plant
at the right time as well as in the
right place. Just takes a little
organization....
Organic Gardening Overview
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Now Blooming
A long-blooming perennial garden depends on a variety of perennials that bloom at different times in succession through the seasonon.
Some perennials put on brief shows and disappear altogether until next year. Put these 'ephemerals' near bolder later bloomers who will cover the leaf dieback of of your early bloomers.
Below find the link to our blooms-by-month handout. You can pick up a copy in the perennial yard when you visit as well.
Perennials by Bloom Time
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Variegated Woodland Phlox Phlox divaricata
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Crabapple
Malus 'Donald Wyman'
4 seasons of interest.Spring flowers bring glossy red fruit. Summer shade leads to a winter branching form for catching snow in interesting patterns.
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Close-up
At Maturity: 20' H x 25' W
This crab has bright pink buds opening to white flowers, giving the tree a joyful polka-dot appearance. |
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Selection of pre-planted containers....
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Ready to Plant Some Annuals? - that's Okay - but....
We had a frost May 1st in the Berkshires and we could have a few more. For hardy perennials, trees and shrubs, a frost just singes the petals of early flowers but the plant and flowers should bounce right back.
But, for Annuals a frost can be the end. So, come in and pick out a combination you like, even pot up your own, but keep those annual pots and window boxes in a covered protected spot like a back hall; warm, enclosed porch; sunny basement window; etc. They'll fill out nicely by the time the weather is agreeable.
Around May 18th, you can start acclimating them to the out-doors by hardening off- giving them 1 hour outside in the shade one day, 2 hours the next and so on until they've been outdoors for 6 hours with a little sun. It should be around May 25 - Memorial Day Weekend - our frost-free date. That's when annuals should be ready to be planted or placed in their permanent, summer position.
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For Mom - or just for yourself!
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Grand Prize Winner!
Mary Ellen Hines
Congratulations!
Mary Ellen has won the Ward's gift card valued at $100.00 for her entry "Violets are blue and roses are red...".
Read it in it's original form below:
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Best Example of Spring Fever - 17 & older: Mimi Hassett's "Winter Gardens"
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Spring Fever Winner 11 & older: Anna Leonard's "The Cat with Spring Fever"
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Spring Fever Winner -10 or younger: Lukas Loehr's "Spring Fever"
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