Add colour to your winter garden with Primula!

If you are looking to add a little colour to your winter garden a fresh delivery of Primula have arrived. Also known as Primrose these hardy plants are great for adding colour to your pots, containers, and gardens. With a range of colours from Pink, Purple, Red, Yellow and White you can be sure to find the right colour for your garden. They make a great planting over your spring bulbs as they will not get in the way when your crocus, tulips, or daffodils grow through them. Be sure to stop by and check out the colours we have available for you.

Field Grown Winter Pansies have Arrived!

Don’t miss out on the best pansies you can grow. When these pansies are grown in the field they develop greater tolerance to the cold temperatures that winter brings. Their extra strength ensures that they produce the biggest and best blooms that any Pansy produce. Their cold hardiness ensures that they bloom all winter long and well into the spring. They may even continue to bloom through the following summer.

Plant you spring bulbs underneath them and the bulbs grow through them in the spring. Colour coordinating your bulbs with the pansies ensures a strong impact in your garden next spring. Try Purple Pansies with Yellow Daffodils, or Yellow Pansies with purple crocus, or white pansies with red tulips. There are many great combinations to try.

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 pansy plants in 4 inch pots or get a better value buying them in a pack of six plants.

Pansies come in a variety of colours including shades of yellow, purple, lavender, mauve, orange, and black (dark purple). When you are planting your pansies be sure to plant your fall bulbs underneath them. You can create colourful combinations with pansies and fall bulbs like yellow crocus with purple pansies. Or try white hyacinths with purple pansies. The combinations are endless.

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 come up again next spring.

Make Your Summer Bloom!

If you want your summer to burst into bloom try the Supertunia ‘Priscilla’. This beautiful petunia has a double lavender flower with striking purple veins. The flowers attract butterflies and hummingbirds to your garden. Unlike the traditional petunias the supertunias do not require deadheading (removing dead flowers) which means that they can bloom continuously all summer long. The flowers are fragrant and heat tolerant. They make a great landscape plant but are also great in hanging baskets and window boxes.

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, Bidens, Coleus, Ipomoea (Sweet Potato Vine), Lobularia, Nemesia, Petunias, Salvia, Supertunias and Verbena.

For 2011 we are excited about the new Punch Series including Apricot, Blackberry, Coralberry, Strawberry and Tangerine the Punch series guarantees masses of beautiful blooms all summer.

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.