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Hours
Tuesday thru Saturday 10am - 6pm
Sunday 11am - 3pm
Phone 570 586 - 5493
- On WNEP's Home and Backyard, I have a piece from Shade Mountain Winery near Mifflinberg. They grow a huge variety of grapes and I must add, very successfully. They make some lovely wine too!
- The rain was most welcome and it has our fall planting season off with a bang!
- Several specials this week. Our mega Mums are "buy 2 get the third free" for this week only. Our shade perennials 30% off (see below)
- In honor of my visit to Shade Mountain Winery, all our grape vines are 30% off too. We have Frotenac, Edelweis, seedless Concord and a patio grape called 'Pixie Pinot Meunier'. It could be the start of a new venture!
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Hosta are fantastic foliage plants for shady gardens and we have a great selection.
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Every fall garden should have asters and we still have a great variety though they are going fast. 'Purple Dome', 'Kickin' Lavender', 'Alert', 'Wood's Purple and Blue' and 'New England Pink'
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Houttuynia 'Chameleon' is a colorful, citrus scented foliage plant or can be a thug, depending on how you look at it.
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are some of the easy care varieties we have in stock right now. Coneflower 'Magnus' has lots of flowers and Kalimeris 'Blue Star' is loaded with another round of flowers.
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Hosta 'Strip Tease' has a narrow line between a dark green border and lime green centers. Stunning!
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Fall is a great time to plant trees, and with ash trees on the decline, its important to consider future replacements for these large shade trees. We have oak, several varieties of maples, ornamental pear and plum, birch, and lilac trees for the smaller garden.
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'Sum and Substance' hosta is a big-leaved favorite and for good reason. Its size and color are very eye-catching.
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Colorful stems can be a stunning feature in the winter garden. Yellow and red twig dogwoods, physocarpus, and dappled willows all have colorful stems or bark.
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'Popcorn Drift' roses are such a fresh, pretty yellow and they rebloom throughout the summer into fall.
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I believe life is too short to look at ailing plants in your garden or to continue to help some limping, spindly shrub that hasn't done a thing in the last five years, when water and time can be spent elsewhere. Its all well and good to be optimistic but there comes the day when enough is enough. For me, this kind of thinking
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Not only are rudbeckia seed heads decorative, the birds love them too.
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always occurs in the fall, when fallen leaves are obscuring any sense of order and pots of still unplanted specimens are lined up in my driveway like tired travelers at the airport. So I was in this frame of mind when a weigela that for some
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Check out the berries on the Lily-of-the-valley! The leaves have shriveled but the pachysandra hides it a bit.
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reason, is a shade of bronze that looks like a brown paper bag instead of the deep purple I envisioned when I planted it at least eight years ago. Was it a one off or just under-fertilized? It clashed terribly with a smokebush, a drift of 'Rosy
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An annual maple makes a striking back-drop for this rudbeckia.
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Glow' barberry, and several pink roses for far too long, and out it came. I was able to dig it up with surprising ease. Maybe it had just been underwatered all these years. No matter. I tossed in onto the burn pile. But now something was missing and naturally it wasn't something I already had in my plant line-up. I needed purple in that spot. Then I remembered the temptingly named Weigela 'Spilled Wine' with dark narrow leaves and a lime green stripe. I like wine, and the deep color was exactly what I had been expecting when I planted the first shrub. The lesson here is, if it doesn't make you happy, why is it in your garden? Now I have my eye on a twenty year old fruitless apple tree. It's days are numbered.
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Thanks very much supporting Greystone Gardens. We are a small local business that relies on our local community to exist. Please support Greystone Gardens and other local businesses by shopping locally! Sincerely, Paul Epsom Greystone Gardens
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