Winter Pansies are Ready to Plant!

It is hard to believe that fall is here but even harder to think that it is time to plant your winter pansies. As your summer annuals finish blooming it is time to start replacing them. Pansies make a great filler for winter adding colour to your garden beds, planters, or pots. You can choose individual plants in 4 inch pots or get a better value buying them in a pack of six plants.

Add Fall Colour to Your Garden with Mums!

Mums are a great addition to your garden for fall. They provide colour from August to October. They are a great combination plant with Pansies, Kale, or other fall perennials. They are excellent in the garden or in pots and containers. Mums are sold as annuals but they can be left in the garden to flower again next year, just cut them back in the winter and they will come up again next spring.

Plant the best! Plant Proven Winners!

A better garden starts with a better plant. Why are Proven Winners Plants Better? Once a Proven Winner plant makes it to your house, you’ll fall in love because Proven Winners plants are:

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

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

June is the best time of year to plant your annuals. Annuals, often referred to as bedding plants, are plants that live their life cycle in less than one year. So that means that when the frosts start in the fall they will die and not come back next year. Fortunately that means that they all bloom as much as possible so that they can produce as many seeds as possible for next year to ensure their survival. 

There are many great annuals that you can plant in your garden. From Ageratum to Zinnias they can produce a rainbow of colour for your garden. Annuals are great in any garden bed. There are annuals that grow best in full sun like Geraniums and Petunias as well as annuals that grow best in shade like Fuchsias and Impatiens.

Try the newest Supertunia, ‘Pretty Much Picasso’

This new variety of the supertunia family will delight you this summer. They can be planted in your garden, planters, or hanging baskets. The unique flowers sport violet purple flowers edged in lime green. This vigorous plants is great for mixing in combination with other vigorous plants. For more information click here.

April Blooming Annuals

There are many annuals that start blooming in April and will bloom all summer until October when the frosts come. Some great annuals that start arriving in April include Geraniums, Osteospermum (Spanish Daisy), and Bacopa.

There are many annuals that can add colour to your garden during the winter and in early spring. Pansies and Primula are the winter workhorses in an annual bed. These hardy plants can survive rain, frost, and even being burried under snow. The heavy rains and frosts can kill the flowers that are open but the plants will continue to produce new flowers well into April and May.