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Looking for flowering trees?
There's Color in the Tree Blocks!
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Having trouble sourcing flowering trees for your spring jobs? Look no further - we are well stocked with varieties of flowering Pears, Cherries, Crabapples, Redbud and more - many of these grown right here on our farms in Connecticut. The most common sizes are 2" - 3.5", but larger sizes are also available and ready to plant including the 5-6" Aristocrat Pears seen at the top. Need something smaller? We are well stocked in container grown fruiting, flowering and ornamental trees. Call for a price quote and availability in the sizes you need!
People all over the world celebrate cherry blossoms - and why not - a mature tree in full flower can be spectacular! These flowering Accolade Cherries are an awesome sight. Their flowers open April-May from deep pink buds and unfurl to semi-double, clear pink blooms before they leaf out. In fall the leaves turn brick red and the smooth bark really does add winter interest. The habit is open creating a low canopy growing 20' x 25'. Plant near evergreen screening to really show them off. Rich, well-drained soil in a sunny location is just what they need to provide years of interest.
Other flowering Cherries include Autumn Flowering, Kwanzan, Okame, Rancho (columnar) Sargent, Snowgoose and Yoshino! |
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News from Watertown
 Phlox stolonifera 'Sherwood's Purple'
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We have houses and houses of beautiful blooming spring perennials including many varietes of Mountain Pinks and Creeping Phlox like the 'Sherwood Purple' seen here. Creeping Phlox is a perennial most homeowners know nothing about, sticking to the more common Mountain Pinks and summer Garden Phlox. They bloom early with delicate flowers above the foliage, will take shade and they'll spread forming low mats, making them a nice woodland groundcover. They are also a ative plant with pretty good deer resistance. Plant in a group for a great start to covering some ground! Once your customers see them in bloom it will be hats off to their favorite landscaper!
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20 gallon Shamrock Inkberry (Ilex glabra)
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Maintaining
Pruning Ilex glabra
Inkberry is a native shrub used in many designs mainly for it being an evergreen, deer resistant plant. Most often these are simply planted, watered and left to do their thing - which is fine - until it's not. After about the third year you'll begin to notice a legginess develop with most of the foliage towards the top third of the plant. That is easily avoided. How? By occasional selective pruning, check it out:
- First, know that Inkberry forms new buds at the cut site. They will not sprout new buds low down along a branch until pruned and or light hits the stem initiating growth of latent buds
- Trimming or shearing the top only encourages a thick dense canopy that prevents light from reaching inner twigs and branches and thus develops a leafless branching structure with leaves only at the tips
- Prune selectively by hand with sharp hand pruners cutting at an angle to hide your cuts
- Cut branches at varying heights inside the shrub (below the intended finished height) letting sunlight in and encouraging new buds to develop; always think in terms of thinning to let light into the interior structure
- Optimum time to prune is late winter/early spring before new growth begins
- Fertilize in spring with something like Holly-tone or 12-3-6 A.C.R.E. which are for acid loving plants like most Hollies (Ilex)
- Remember, the main objective is to let sunlight inside by avoiding a congested dense top growth
- Also, they like moist, well-drained soil so supplemental watering is necessary during times of drought
- Remember the hallmark for good pruning is after you are finished the average person walking by should not realize or notice that any pruning has been done!
Let us know if you have any tips for keeping them as sharp looking as the day you bought them!
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Incoming this week includes: Carolina Hornbeam, Kentucky Yellowwood, PeeGee Hydrangea & Lacebark Elm - all PC Grown!
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| | Flowering Cherries, Accolade and Snowgoose |
| Incoming from our Tree Farms | | | Acer griseum 3.5-4", 4-4.5" | Paperbark Maple | | Carpinus caroliniana 2.5-3" | Carolina Hornbeam | | Cercidiphyllum japonicum 'Pendula' 2.5-3", 3.5-4" | Weeping Katsura | | Cercis canadensis 'Pink Heartbreaker' 2.5-3" | Eastern Redbud | | Cladrastis lutea 2.5-3" | Kentucky Yellowwood | | Gleditsia triacanthos 2-2.5" | Honey Locust | | Hydrangea paniculata 'Grandiflora', 'Limelight' shrub form, 'Quickfire' tree form assorted sizes | Panicle Hydrangea | | Prunus x 'Snow Fountain' 2.5-3" | White Weeping Cherry | | Pyrus calleryana 'Aristocrat' 2.5-3" | Callery Pear | | Ulmus parvifolia 'Allee' 2.5-3", 3-3.5" | Lacebark Elm |
| Deciduous Trees & Shrubs | | | Acer palmatum 'Mikawa Yatsubusa', 'Orange Dream', 'Sango Kaku', 'Tobiosho', 'Red Dragon', 'Tamukeyama', 'Viridis' | Japanese Maples | | Betula jacquemonti 12/14' | Himalayan Birch | | Cercis canadensis 'Covey', 'Ruby Falls' | Weeping Eastern Redbud | | Clethra alnifolia 'Ruby Spice' 3/4' | Summersweet | | Cornus kousa 'Elizabeth Lustgarten' | Weeping Kousa Dogwod | | Cornus kousa 'Wolf's Eye' | Variegated Dogwood | | Fagus sylvatica 'Dawyki' | European Beech | | Gleditsia triacanthos 'Skyline' | Honey Locust | | Magnolia x lobneri 'Dr. Merrill' 16/18' | Magnolia | | Rosa Knock Out Family | Roses | | Viburnum x rhytid. 'Allegheny' 4.5' | Leatherleaf Viburnum |
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| | l-r: Thunderhead Pine, Bergman's Japanese White Pine, Stricta Upright English Yew, Nana Dwarf White Pine, Flushing Upright Yew, Dwarf Golden Hinoki Cypress & Gimborn's Ideal Japanese White Pine |
| Broadleaf and Specialty Evergreens | | | Abies koreana 'Hostman's Silberlocke' 5/6' | Korean Fir | | Abies pinsapo 'Aurea', 'Glauca' 6/7' | Spanish Fir | | Buxus sempervirens 'Green Mountain' | Assorted Boxwood | | Cedrus atlantica 'Glauca Pendula' | Weeping Blue Atlas Cedar | | Cephalotaxus harringtonia 'Fastigiata' | Upright Japanese Yew | | Chamaecyparis obtusa 'Cripsii', 'Filicoides', 'Gracilis' 'Kosteri', 'Nana Gracilis', 'Nana Lutea', 'Verdoni' | Hinoki Cypress | | Chamaecyparis pisifera 'Boulevard' Pompom; C.pis fil. 'Gold Mop' | Sawara Cypress | | Ilex crenata 'Steeds' 4/5' | Upright Japanese Holly | | Ilex x 'Blue Maid', 'Blue Princess', 'Centennial Girl' 8/10', 'China Girl' | Hybrid Holly | | Juniperus scopulorum 'Skyrocket' 6/7' | Skyrocket Juniper | | Juniperus chinensis 'Blue Point' 5/6', 'Hetzi Columnaris' | Upright Juniper | | Picea pungens 'Baby Blue', 'Fastigiate', 'Hoopsi' | Colorado Spruce | | Pinus strobus 'Pendula' | Weeping White Pine | | Pinus thunbergi 'Thunderhead' | Dwarf Japanese Black Pine | | Prunus laurocerasus 'Otto Lyuken', 'Schipkaensis' | Cherry Laurel | | Rhododendron 'Chinoides', 'English Roseum' 3/4', 4/5' | Rhododendron | | Sequoiadendron giganteum 'Pendula' | Weeping Giant Sequoia | | Skimmia japonica | Japanese Skimmia | | Taxus baccata 'Stricta' 8/10 | Upright Yew | | Taxus x media 'Hicksi' | Upright Yew |
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| Evergreen Screening | | | Abies concolor 8/10' | Concolor Fir | | Picea abies 10/12' | Norway Spruce | | Picea glauca 7/8', 8/10' | White Spruce | | Pinus strobus 5/6', 6/7', 7/8', 10/12' | Eastern White Pine | | Thuja occidentalis 'Techny' 7/8', 8/10' | American Arborvitae |
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The Hosta House is greening up quickly with many varieties of
Ferns and Hostas for your shade and woodland gardens
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Weekly Plant I.D.
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Last Week's ID
Cornus canadensis
Bunchberry
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Bunchberry makes an interesting native groundcover (clean foliage, fresh white flower bracts in spring and fall berries), and as you may have experienced, it can be finicky. Maybe its time to read the directions on this coveted native:
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-Plant in partial to full shade
-Needs moist, acid soil, rich in organic matter
-Mulch well (if planted under an evergreen like White Pine, the needles make a great mulch for it)
-Water frequently until established (as a Zone 2-6 plant, a very hot, dry summer will cause stress)
Give it a try and let us know if you have any tips!
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