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We are giving away this gardening gift basket! We are doing this in conjunction with the nice people at Mantis.com. You know them right? They make all kinds of really cool gardening related tools but the one that I am most passionate about is the Mantis Tiller. You’ve seen me use it many times, it’s… Click here to read more…
Abbotswood Potentilla is awesome plant! It’s easy to grow, easy to care for, super easy to propagate and it really easy to keep it looking nice in a landscape. Abbottswood, like most Potentilla is a prolific bloomer. It starts blooming in June and blooms all summer long right on into fall. Hardy in zones 3… Click here to read more…
Gold Flame Spirea, Spiraea x bumalda ‘Goldflame’ is extremely colorful and eye catching. It’s easy to grow, easy to propagate and sells like wild fire! I’ve got a few of them planted around the nursery and as soon as people see them they ask about them. This is a plant that we can’t seem to… Click here to read more…
Many of the flowering shrubs that we grow are vigorous growers and we want them to look fantastic when it’s time to sell them. The only way that can happen is if we keep them pruned so they look good. When I’m doing the pruning things get cut back really hard. I mean really hard! … Click here to read more…
One of Our Members asked me to show everybody exactly how I go about winterizing my sprinklers and irrigation lines in the nursery. All of my irrigation lines are PVC and PVC is very unforgiving if it freezes with water in the lines. Black plastic well pipe, on the other hand, does give a little… Click here to read more…
Weigela florida ‘Tango’ Hardy in zones 4 through 8. I think Tango Weigela is an awesome plant and it’s a crazy hot seller for me. It is one of the more compact weigelas and has redish, purple dark leaves with flowers that are red to deep red. This is one of those plants that I… Click here to read more…
I’ve had this beautiful Laceleaf Weeping Japanese Maple in my landscape for years. The variety is ‘Waterfall’. But eventually it out grew the bed that it was in. It was encroaching the sidewalk on two sides. Pruning it to keep it from blocking the walkway would have ruined the shape of the tree. Then I… Click here to read more…
Crazy right? Getting paid to sell sticks? It’s true, in Our Members Area sticks are a hot, hot, hot commodity in November, December and January. Some members sell thousands and thousands of them. The look like sticks, but they are really valuable, Unrooted Hardwood Cuttings. One of the easiest ways to propagate plants is during… Click here to read more…
Liriope muscari ‘Variegata’, also known as Variegated Lilly Turf. Variegated Liriope is an awesome landscape and I tell you why. It’s colorful, it flowers, it’s attractive and it’s super easy to care. I’ve used this plant in landscape plants for years and 20 years later it still looks good. It never gets too big, it… Click here to read more…
Viburnum x rhytidophylloides ‘Alleghany’ Doesn’t matter if you are looking for a plant to grow and sell or if you are a home owner looking for a different kind of plant for your landscape, the Alleghany Viburnum is an interest and awesome plant. These are just a few of the highlights of the plant. Loaded… Click here to read more…
