January Garden Activities

• Develop new ideas for improving and rejuvenating your garden. The winter garden shows the “bones” of your landscape so if it looks sparse and unattractive during the winter months, consider adding some cold hardy shrubs that look good year-round. Many have decorative flowers or berries that add color to the winter garden.
  

• Prune roses, fruit trees, and summer and fall blooming shrubs and trees. Prune Spring bloomers after they finish blooming. If you need help with pruning Fruit Trees, we stock a wonderful book called, How to Prune Fruit Trees, by Martin R. Sanford which we recommend for all you do-it-yourselfers. Protect your hands and arms with Gloves that prevent injuries and bruises from thorns and other irritants.

• Apply dormant disease control sprays on your fruit trees. Lime-Sulfur is no longer available due to our government’s laws. Copper sprays such as Monterey Liquid-Cop (copper ammonium complex) or organic Copper Soaps (OMRI) are now the only choices.  We also suggest you add Summit Horticultural Oil Spray or Saf-T-Side certified organic oil to the copper spray (not to the copper soaps). The oil helps the copper stick to the plant and is effective in smothering overwintering insects such as aphids and scale.  Let us guide you through this effective, earth friendly prevention program to help reduce insects and diseases such as peach-leaf curl.
  

• Add winter color, such as primroses, violas, calendula, and alyssum to pots and spaces that you view from windows or doors. This will help keep your views bright and cheery through the rest of the cool season. If planting in pots, use a good potting soil such as SuperSoil for best results.
  

• Continue to check plants in areas under eaves and porches to be sure they do not dry out.
  

• Protect plants from cold damage by using frost blankets, frost bags or Cloud Cover Spray.
  

• Start Perennial Flowers from seed. We stock a wonderful supply from Botanical Interest and Renee’s.
  

• Check Houseplants for insects and for repotting needs. Spray with an appropriate product for the insect problem and with one that is safe to use indoors. If you need help, simply bring a sample to our nursery in a plastic bag so we can help identify the pest and guide you to the proper remedy.

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Featured Plants

Add Winter Color!

Polygala chamaebuxus ‘Kaminiski’- Unusual new plant!  This is an excellent, very cold hardy choice for winter color. It is a dense shrublet that can be used as a groundcover or low border plant. The foliage is dark green year round. Its magenta and yellow sweet pea shaped flowers bloom December through March. It is related to the popular Sweet Pea Bush. An added bonus is that it is deer resistant!        

Special price $12.88 per gallon
Reg. $19.99. Limited to stock on hand. Offer expires 1/31/11

Grevillea lanigera ‘Mt. Tamboritha’- An Australian introduction that is a great groundcover substitute for the more common rosemary or star jasmine. It is green year round and is covered with lots of rosy pink and cream colored flowers through winter and sporadically the rest of the year. It grows about 18 inches tall and spreads 2 feet wide. The deer do not like this plant but the hummingbirds love it!  

Special price $7.88 per gallon
Reg. $9.99. Limited to stock on hand. Offer expires 1/31/11

Featured Garden Supply Items

Protect Your Hands

Bellingham Performance Work Gloves – A new line of premium quality gloves. They have reinforced cushioned palms. They are made from soft, washable, eco-friendly, grain cowhide leather. The back side of the glove is hyprene and neoprene for breathability and comfort. We stock both men’s and women’s sizes in an array of colors!    

Special Price $12.88
Reg. $17.99. Limited to stock on hand. Offer expires 1/31/11

 

Bellingham Thorn Handling Gloves- A new line of washable gauntlet gloves that protects your hand and forearms from thorns, sharp tips, poison oak and other irritants. These gloves are made from tough, flexible, synthetic leather.  They also feature reinforced finger tips and cushioned safety palms that are puncture and abrasion resistant. This company prides itself in using modern, eco-friendly methods, and pays close attention to details in its design and production of its products.

Special Price $18.88
Reg. $23.99. Limited to stock on hand. Offer expires 1/31/11

Featured Garden Décor Item

Beautiful Art for Inside or Out

We’ve added 4 unique, fun, eye-catching metal wall art pieces to our existing collection of wall décor. They can be used indoors or outdoors and have a dark bronze finish. Choices include Sun Sprout, Birds in Window, Birds on a Wire, and Open Window. All are value priced from $44.99 to 64.99. They make lovely focal points on walls and fences or you can even hang them in a window to obscure unattractive views.