Janet

We want to welcome Janet Chakwin to our sales staff in Newtown. Janet comes to us with over sixteen years of experience as a landscape designer.  She founded her own business in the mid 90s and later served for several years as the Senior Sales and Project Manager for a busy, well-established local landscaping firm.  A perfectionist and detail oriented, she is a real problem solver with a wealth of ideas and creative answers to your toughest design problems.  Look for her in our yard or in the office on your next visit!

 

Ross  

And a big welcome back to Ross Proctor!  He has spent the last 10 years working in the landscaping industry and after a brief time away he's back on our sales team and looking forward to working with all of you! 

A good use of dwarf Butterfly Bush (Buddleia) 'Lo and Behold Blue Chip' is in containers. This is simply and elegantly mixed with Geraniums (Pelargonium) and an annual Euphorbia 'Diamond Frost'. Makes an easy and impressive, long-lasting container!     Thanks Sara M.!

Send in your pictures using our material and we'll gladly share your successes! 

"Fall is for planting...Why?"

Mark answers: Any time can be good for planting as long as you take into consideration what you need to do for success given the conditions of the season.

Fall simply provides a number of conditions that work in our favor making planting easier with greater success. To start with, temperatures are lower, the days are shorter, the sun is not high in the sky providing less intensity and all this together means plants don't dry out as quickly so they loose moisture at a far less rapid pace. The next thing to consider is that the soil and ground temperatures stay warm, and this encourages good root growth even when the top is not growing and is likely loosing leaves and/or going dormant.

The warm soil temps also aid many of the organic planting fertilizers as these products rely on soil microbes to break them down to release the nutrients the plants need.

Submit your landscaping question via email to sbarbier@planterschoice.com and you'll be entered in a monthly drawing to receive 10% off your next purchase (pick up only, does not apply to deliveries). Please use "Question of the Week" in the subject line and let me know if you want your name and business mentioned. 

Here's a list of great looking perennials - in stock and in good supply - ready for your next job!  

Clouds of billowy, lavender-blue Russian Sage

Perovskia  atriplicifolia (Russian sage) Full blooming and amazing!!!

Sedum 'Autumn Joy' Full, budded and starting to show color

Scabiosa columbaria ' Pink Mist'  Fully budded and just coming into bloom

Salvia ' Snowhill' Full in their pots and blooming

Nepeta 'Six Hills Giant' Full, budded and blooming

-Thanks Heather!

Great ornamental grass for low maintenance texture

On SPECIAL this week are our Sporobolus heterolepsis (Prairie Dropseed). Rick Darke (an authority on native plants and grasses) calls it ..."one of the most elegant and refined prairie grasses..." in his Pocket Guide to Ornamental Grasses . It's full of light texture with airy seedheads. It is a clumping grass that is drought tolerant once established, long lived and trouble free. Tuck it in the border with confidence!

Continued Specials on:

• All Magnolia 1 - 10% off, 2 or more - 20% off 
• B&B Cherry Laurel -10% off ('Otto Lyuken' & 'Schip.')
• All Fruit Trees 10 & 15 gallon - 20% off

Valid:  Sat. Sept. 8 - Fri. Sept 14

*Price is net. No further discount applies. 

Trucks are constantly bringing over fresh nursery stock from our container production farm - everything from the common Spiraeas and Andromedas to the lesser used Bush Honeysuckle (Diervilla) and Alpine Currant (Ribes alpinum). Thanks to Peter and his crew for making the many trips needed (often in a pinch) to keep our customers happy! Look for the PC symbol in our catalog and you'll know it was grown locally by us!

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Incoming this week- Restocked with Boxwood and gorgeous dwarf conifers!

Ryan and Miguel tagging some of the incoming Boxwood

Trees 

Acer palmatum dis. 'Crimson Queen', 'Inaba Shidare', 'Shishigashira' and 'Twombly's Red Sentinel' gorgeous!

Broadleaf and Specimen Evergreens

Azaleas 'Delaware Valley White', 'Gumpo White', 'Hino Crimson', 'Rene Michelle', 'Stewarstonian'

Buxus (Boxwood) 'Green Velvet', 'Winter Gem'

Chamaecyparis obtusa (Hinoki Cypress) 'Fernspray Gold', 'Kosteri', 'Nana Gracilis', 'Nana Lutea', 'Verdoni'

C. pisifera (Sawara False Cypress)'White Pygmy'

Ilex glabra (Inkberry)

Picea abies (Dwarf Norway Spruce) 'Little Gem' and in standards

P. abies 'Pendula' (Weeping Norway Spruce)

P. glauca 'Conica' and 'Pendula'

P. orientalis 'Skylands'

P. pungens (Dwarf Bue Spruce) 'Globosa', 'Montgomery' and standards, 'Procumbens'

Large selection of evergreen color!

Groundcover

Pachysandra terminalis (Japanese Spurge) We just received some fresh blocks of this widely used, deer resistant groundcover

Hardgoods
Just a reminder - Don't forget about fall fertilization! Applied now, they will prepare the plant for cold temperatures, lack of moisture and the desiccating winds ahead. Here are some great Plant Health Care products to consider: 

• PHC 3-4-4 For acid loving plants
• Plant Saver 4-7-4 Includes fertilizer, beneficial bacteria and mycorrhizae
• PHC for Flowers 12-16-12 is water soluable with minerals and beneficial bacteria for flowering plants
• Flower Saver Plus 3-4-3 Add to soil at planting, includes beneficial bacteria and mycorrhizae
• Tree Saver in single-use packets with mycorrhizae, beneficial bacteria and water-holding gel 
• Bio-Pak Plus 3-0-20 Water soluble micronutrient treatment with beneficial bacteria and fertilizer 

Fall Color!

Need some quick ideas for fall interest aside from the usual? Janet and Claudia put these together to give you ideas for sun and shade. They will add color to the season through the next few months. Great as fall containers as is, but we also think they'll look terrific in the landscape. Use them for brightening entryway gardens, in big sweeps along a driveway, at commercial sites and more! Just increase the numbers of your favorite plants for the area you want to cover, and you have a classy, colorful look for fall.  

Don't forget...

Cabbage & Kale are excellent fillers for your annual areas and containers. 6 interesting varieties to choose from - all grown by us!

Mums! Many colors to choose from in 8" and 12" pots. They are in that perfect state - budded and just beginning to open.