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:
Click here for more information about Easy Elegance Roses.
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‘All the Rage’
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‘Coral Cove’
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‘High Voltage’
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‘Macy’s Pride’
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‘Paint the Town’
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‘Yellow Submarine’
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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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Lobularia ‘Frosty Knight’
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Lobularia ‘Frosty Knight’
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Superbells ‘Lemon Slice’
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Superbells ‘Lemon Slice’
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Supertunia ‘Royal Velvet’
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Supertunia ‘Royal Velvet’
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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‘Girard’s Fuchsia’
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‘Girard’s Rose’
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‘Hino Crimson’
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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Blirieana
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Kanzan
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Kiku Shidare
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Pissardi Nigra
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Mt Fuji
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Pendula
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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Calluna v. ‘Flamingo’
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Calluna v. ‘Red Fred’
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Calluna v. ‘Spring Torch’
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Erica x ‘Ghost Hills’
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Erica x ‘Kramer’s Red’
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Erica x ‘White Perfection’
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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‘Gold Tide’
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‘Lynwood Gold’
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‘Northern Gold’