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By Miles Hunter, May 10, 2013

May 10th, 2013

Summer Never Ends for the Endless Summer Hydrangeas!

If you have ever had a Hydrangea that did not flower and did not understand why this is the variety for you. The Original ‘Endless Summer’ Hydrangea is a mophead hydrangea that can bloom on both old and new wood. So no matter how you prune them they flower every year. There are now four varieties in the Endless Summer Collection to choose from:

• Hydrangea ‘Endless Summer’ - The Original, flowers can be Pink or Blue
• Hydrangea ‘Blushing Bride’ - pure white blooms with semi-double florets that mature to pink
• Hydrangea ‘Twist N Shout’ - a Lace-cap type with vivid colour and sturdy stems
• Hydrangea ‘Bella Anna’ – the newest addition to the endless summer collection this is a beautiful pink

The repeat blooms of the Endless Summer® Collection truly offer gardeners an endless summer of incredible colour. These hardy plants are perfect for everything from foundation planting to container gardening. They even make an ideal floral arrangement or table setting as cut flowers.

The colour of the Original Endless Summer can be altered from pink to blue. For more information visit www.endlesssummerblooms.com.

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By Miles Hunter, May 7, 2013

May 10th, 2013

All of the Beauty and None of the Work!

If you are looking for a Rose that has all of the beauty with none of the work you should try the new Easy Elegance Roses. For more information click here.

Gone are the days of high-maintenance roses. With Easy Elegance®, you can have hardy, disease-resistant, chemical free roses without all the effort and attention. Let it be known – these are not your grandmother’s roses. You don’t have to spend all day in the yard to make them last. All you have to do is plant them and enjoy the beauty. And there’s nothing easier than that.

You can choose from six varieties including:

• Easy Elegance ‘All the Rage’ – opens coral and turns apricot with a yellow centre
• Easy Elegance ‘Champagne Wishes’ -
• Easy Elegance ‘Como Park’ – red flowers
• Easy Elegance ‘Coral Cove’ – dark pink double blooms
• Easy Elegance ‘High Voltage’ - yellow double blooms
• Easy Elegance ‘Kashmir’ - dark red
• Easy Elegance ‘Macy’s Pride’ – lemon yellow buds open to a creamy white flower
• Easy Elegance ‘Paint the Town’ – red hybrid tea shaped flowers
• Easy Elegance ‘Yellow Submarine’ – bright lemon yellow flowers

Click here for more information about Easy Elegance Roses.

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By Miles Hunter, April 25, 2013

April 25th, 2013

Plant the best! Plant Proven Winners!

Are you looking for plants you can trust to create a beautiful, easy-to-maintain garden? All you have to do is look for the Proven Winners name to know you’re getting the most distinctive plants on the market. That’s because Proven Winners partners with the top plant breeders around the world to ensure our varieties are vigorous, healthy, vibrant, and unique.

Why are Proven Winners Plants Better?

Proven Winners searches the world to find and select plants which are clearly superior to others of their type in our trials in Michigan, New Hampshire, California, Germany, Japan, and Florida. Once a Proven Winners plant makes it to your house, you’ll fall in love. Proven Winners plants are:

• Easy to grow and care for
• Covered with blooms
• Bright and colorful
• All-season bloomers
• Disease free
• Trialed and tested

Our selection of Proven Winners includes many great plants including varieties of Ageratum, Argyranthemum (Daisy), Bacopa, Bidens, Coleus, Ipomoea (Sweet Potato Vine), Lobularia, Nemesia, Petunias, Salvia, Supertunias and Verbena.

There are some great new varieties for 2013 including a new variety of Lobularia called ‘Frosty Knight’. Click here for more information about Frosty Knight. There is also a great new variety of Superbells (mini Petunias) called ‘Lemon Slice’. Click here for more information about Lemon Slice. Both of these new varieties go great with the best seller from 2012 Supertunia ‘Royal Velvet’. The dark purple will go great with the lemon yellow flowers of Lemon Slice as well as the variegated yellow foliage and white flowers of the Lobularia ‘Frosty Knight’. Try them as a combination in your hanging baskets or planters.

To go to the Proven Winners Website to see more great plants click here.

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By Miles Hunter, April 8, 2013

April 8th, 2013

Add colour to your garden with an Azalea!

Spring is easy to enjoy with Japanese Azaleas. These compact evergreen shrubs flowers reliably every spring. They are one of the easiest shrubs to plant and grow, requiring little to no pruning. They thrive in partial sun or partial shade in well drained soil. There are many varieties to choose from and most of them grow to be about 2 to 3 feet tall and 3 to 4 feet wide.

If you already have one of these great plants in your garden now is a great time to fertilize with a Rhododendron and Azalea fertilizer and top dress with a compost or mulch like Sea Soil.

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By Miles Hunter, April 4, 2013

April 4, 2013

The Flowering Cherries are Blooming!

There is no surer sign of spring than when the flowering cherry trees begin to bloom. There will be thousands of trees in bloom over the next month. The first to bloom are usually the Flowering Plums including ‘Pissardi Nigra’ and ‘Bliriana’. The rest will bloom over 6 to 8 weeks.

To celebrate the flowering cherries as they come into bloom The Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival runs from April 4th to 30th. For more information about the varieties you might find in bloom throughout greater Vancouver visit the Cherry Blossom Festival website here. At David Hunter Garden Centers we have many of these varieties trees to choose from including:

• Flowering Plum ‘Pissardi Nigra’- pink flowers
• Flowering Plum ‘Blireriana’ – pink flowers
• Flowering Cherry ‘Kiku Shidare’ – double pink
• Flowering Cherry ‘Kanzan’ (aka Kwanzan)- double pink
• Flowering Cherry ‘Mount Fuji’ – double white
• Flowering Cherry ‘Shirofugen’ – white
• Flowering Cherry subhirtella ‘Pendula’ – weeping form, pink flowers
• Flowering Cherry ‘Whitcombi’ – single pink

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By Miles Hunter,

April 4, 2013

The Daphne are Blooming! Come in to Smell the Sweet Fragrance!

There is no better smell than the fragrance of a Daphne. For 2013 there are 8 varieties for you to choose from. Your garden would not be complete without a Daphne. Come in to smell the sweet fragrance today.

The varieties that we carry include:

• Daphne burkwoodii ‘Briggs Moonlight’
• Daphne burkwoodii ‘Somerset’
• Daphne cneorum ‘Ruby Glow’
• Daphne genkwa
• Daphne ‘Lawrence Crocker’
• Daphne odora ‘Zuiko Nishiki’
• Daphne transatlantica ‘Eternal Fragrance’
• Daphne transatlantica ‘Summer Ice’

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By Miles Hunter, April 1, 2013

April 1st, 2013

April Blooming Shrubs

Spring brings out the colour in a wide variety of shrubs. The many Azaleas and Rhododendrons begin to bloom. There are so many colours and sizes to choose from you are sure to find a variety that will make an excellent addition to your garden.

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By Miles Hunter, March 18, 2013

March 18th, 2013

Add a touch of Spring to Your Garden with Spring Blooming Heather!

One of the most prolific flowering Perennials for the early spring is Heather. There are many types of Heather but the most beautiful are the Spring Blooming varieties belong to the Erica genus. Often classified as winter blooming varieties the Erica varieties will start blooming in late December and will often bloom until April or May. You can choose from a number of different varieties. Most have either white, pink, or red flowers.

You can also choose from the “Spring Tip” varieties that produce beautiful colours on the new foliage that grows in the spring. They belong to the genus Calluna and later in the summer these varieties will bloom giving you several seasons of colour.

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By Miles Hunter, March 14, 2013

March 14th, 2013

When the Forsythia are in Bloom it is Time to Prune!

One of the first spring flowering shrubs to delight us with its blooms every spring are the Forsythia. These beautiful shrubs are filled with bright yellow flowers. They are also an excellent reminder that it is time to prune your tree and shrubs. Roses, Fruit Trees, Small Fruits (Blueberries and Raspberries), an summer flowering shrubs. If you would like to learn about pruning join us for a free pruning seminar. Click here for more information about upcoming seminars. Click here to download our information brochure about pruning.

The Forsythia flowers appear as deep golden wands in late March and early April. The ‘Lynwood Gold’ forsythia is a dense growing plant with an upright habit that will reach a height of 6 to 8 feet tall and wide.

Gold Tide is an excellent dwarf variety that reaches a height of 2 to 3 feet tall and spreads to 3 to 4 feet wide. If you are looking for a smaller variety then this is the one for you.

Northern Gold is another excellent variety that will grow to 6 to 8 feet tall and wide. The Northern Gold comes in a standard tree form that makes an perfect centerpiece for a pot, container, or garden bed.

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By Miles Hunter, February 20, 2013

February 20th, 2013

Heavenly Helleborus!

Helleborus, or Christmas Rose, are an easy to grow perennial that bloom continuously for many months. Some varieties start in early December and can bloom until March. They grow best in a dry shady location. They are fairly disease resistant, drought tolerant, and deer resistant. For more information about growing Helleborus click here.

Come in to our Surrey store this Saturday February 23rd at 10:30 AM to hear Danielle from Skagit Gardens give a seminar on growing Helleborus. Click here to see some of the great Helleborus that Skagit Gardens grows for our stores. Click here for a list of classes, demonstrations, and seminars that you can attend at our store this spring.