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Weekly Picks!                  Friday, July 31, 2015
Casa Blanca Oriental Lily
Casa Blanca Oriental Lily (Lilium)
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Yes, it's time to get your customers excited about spring color! As usual we will be bringing in a variety of hardy spring flowering bulbs for your fall planting jobs including many varieties of Allium, Crocus, Narcissus, Tulips and more. Fill in those early spring bare areas in perennial gardens near ornamental grasses and emerging Hostas; in shrub borders and foundation plantings under upright deciduous shrubs; along walkways, driveways and entryways - you can never have enough!

Easy to plant, easy on the budget and an easy sell!

Bright Whites, Bright Nights 
White Garden
Top: Miss Manners Obedient Plant, David Summer Phlox, Starshine Aster, Diane Rose-of-Sharon
Bottom: Limelight Panicle Hydrangea, White Clips Bell Flower, Casa Blanca Oriental Lily, Becky Shasta Daisy

While most of your customers don't have a castle like Sissinghurst, you can get the look of  their famous white garden by choosing a succession of white flowering plants for spring through fall. Some call it a romantic garden, others a moonlight garden - call it what you will, the white just pops in the night landscape where other colors disappear. Need fillers? Just add some variegated or silver-leaved groundcover to bridge the seasons. Here's a short list of other suggestions to add to the ones pictured above.

Honorine Jobert Windflower (Anemone x), Brauschleier & Snowdrift Astilbe, White Bleeding Heart (Dicentra spectablis 'Alba'), Henryi Clematis, Pow-Wow White Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea), Sister Teresa or Blushing Bride Bigleaf Hydrangea (Hydrangea macrophylla), Culver's Root (Veronicastrum virginicum), Summer Snowflake Viburnum (Viburnum plicatum)...

Plus these fillers: Silvermound Wormwood (Artemesia), So Sweet Hosta, Variegated Deadnettle (Lamium), Majeste & Mrs. Moon Lungwort (Pulmonaria), Ralph Shugert Variegated Vinca...

So make the garden a night-time destination for more than just setting off fireworks.
 
Summer Nights False Sunflower
False Sunflower
Summer Nights False Sunflower

One of our summertime favorites is Heliopsis helianthoides 'Summer Nights'. It's a graceful perennial with dark green foliage, golden-yellow petals around a mahogany eye on awesome, wiry purple-red stems. It's great for mid to back of the border, meadow plantings or cutting gardens growing 3-4' x 2-3 wide. Long blooming from mid-late summer and easy care. Needs full sun for best flowering.

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Summer perennials are in full bloom, Hydrangeas and Rose of Sharon are both budded and blooming! A wide variety of B&B flowering, ornamental and shade trees available in all sizes!
Hatfield Yews
Looking for evergreens for hedging? We have good numbers of upright and spreading Yews. Here you see some 4/5' Taxus x media 'Hatfieldii' with their flat, dark, glossy needles. Being a male cultivar it will not produce the soft red berries your grandmother warned you to stay away from.

Up-potting Spiraea Snowmound
Here Lucy, Cesar and Jason are up-potting Spiraea 'Snowmound' into 6 gallon containers behind the barn in Newtown. That potting machine, by the way, has been a workhorse for the last 25 years!

Mulch Hay
If you've used our Mulch Master Shredded Hay you're undoubtedly a repeat user, but if you haven't and wonder what it looks like, here you go. It's chopped, weed and dust-free which is just what you want for newly seeded lawns, wildflower meadows and vegetable gardens. It come in a 3.5 cubic foot bale weighing about 25 lbs. It covers about 600 sq. ft. for the typical seeding project. Benefits include: moisture retention, less clumps and decomposes quicker than traditional hay bales, easier to spread, keeps birds away from grass seed, the smaller pieces knit together making them less likely to be wind blown and the plastic bag is recyclable! Now you know.

Have A Great Weekend!

Last Week's Plant I.D.
Last Week's I.D. Strawberry 'Lipstick'
This Week's Plant I.D.
This Week's Plant I.D.
The I.D. from last Friday was Fragaria 'Lipstick'. It's a hybrid strawberry grown for flowers and foliage. Numerous small, deep rose-red flowers bloom from late spring to early summer and again in fall. Foliage forms a bushy, compact, 8" mound. Hardly any berries form on this hardy perennial but when they do, enjoy!
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