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February 2012 | |
Collier's Nursery Newsletter
Love Born in the Garden |
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Valentine's Day is
Tuesday, February 14th
and every sweetie will fall
head over heels for happy blooms!
This year, give living flowers
to symbolize a love that never dies.
We can help you put together a blooming basket that will thrill!
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Honey-Do Garden List
Is Your Garden Ready for Spring?
During February you may find yourself getting impatient for spring days as late-winter blooms signal warmer days approaching. February is a great month to spend prepping the garden: get those chores out of the way now so you'll be ready for the fun task of planting in March!
- Snip, snip! Is your garden looking a little shaggy? February is the best month to prune many garden plants including the following: Hollies and broadleaf evergreens, shrub and climbing roses, crape myrtles, camellias (after they bloom), summer-blooming spirea, butterfly bush, abelias, evergreen ferns, cast iron plant and lirope. Get some basic pruning tips in our Pruning Guide.
- Lawncare: St. Augustine and centipede lawns need an application of Hi-Yield Pre-Emerge with Dimension this month.
- Apply a horticultural oil during the dormant season to woody ornamentals and fruit trees to kill pests such as aphids, scales and mites that overwinter on plants. Find out more about dormant oils here.
- Get your houseplants ready for their outdoor hiatus once spring gets here. Re-pot and fertilize rootbound plants.
- Start seeds indoors if you're going to.
- Gather bulbs for spring-planting such as amaryllis, cannas, dahlia, asiatic and spider lilies, elephant's ears and garlic, but wait a little longer to plant them.
- Plant strawberries as soon as they become available.
- Get trees and shrubs planted now so they can get their roots established before summer.
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Our sale section is growing
as we make room for spring stock...
Check it out this month
before it's gone!
Be on the lookout for an announcement in the March e-newsletter...
Something exciting will happen
this spring!
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Paper Hearts & Love Knots
Discover the Sweet Fragrance of Edgeworthia
Edgeworthia, also called paperbush, is a deciduous shrub native to China, where its bark is used to make high-quality paper. Edgeworthia's very pliable stems that twist and bend without breaking are the source of its other name, knot plant. A larger-growing relative of winter daphne, Edgeworthia's intensely fragrant, lemon-yellow to creamy blooms begin to open this month, while the plants are still leafless.
In its native habitat, Edgeworthia grows along the edges of woodlands, often near streams. In the landscape they prefer evenly moist, well-drained soil in partial sun. This pest-free plant grows to about 6 feet tall and wide and requires little care except for extra water during summer droughts. Edgeworthia is an interesting choice for the collector and a handsome specimen for any garden. Come into the nursery and see one for yourself, we have 1 and 3 gallon sizes in stock! |
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Buy 1, get 1 half off:
indoor foliage |
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Offer Expires: February 28, 2012. One coupon per customer please.
Includes ferns, ivy and houseplants regularly priced $4.99-$14.99.
Indoor blooms excluded. |
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