For ornamental plant nurseries, greenhouses, and retailers/garden centers in these regions, this is darn close to devastating (the South has fared much better). For growers and retailers, spring is the busiest time of the year – many see 70-80% of their annual sales between March and earl...
I’m planning the most awesome gardening vacation you can have in North Alabama. If you readAlabama Gardenermagazine, you may remember the article I wrote titled, ‘Peggy’s Big Adventure.’ It was about my trip to California with Dan Heims, President ofTerra Nova Nurseries, and how travelin...
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5,Salvia elegans‘Aurea’ zn 8, i grew this a couple of summers prior to ’08 and the recession which saw the demise of more than a few nurseries and spurred a return to more conservative buying at some of our local garden centers, shrinking the choices of available plants. I’d grow ...
Of course it could be that today’s ‘White Aster’ is simply an impostor substituted for the real thing sometime between 1956 and when we first acquired it 50 years later from one of Germany’s oldest and most respected dahlia nurseries – but, at least for now, I’m willing to give...
Every year about now, nurseries mark plants down to clear out the stock they don't want to hold over through winter. Take advantage of this phenom! Here in the northwest, autumn has arrived. The welcome rain falls on the parched ground, and the plants embrace this needed moisture. Gardener...
She traces her love of plants to tagging along with her parents to local nurseries when she was a child, and after earning a horticulture degree from Michigan State and spending a few years working for a landscape company in Chicago, she returned here a few years ago to join us as our ...
Plant nurseries are closed. Home Depot is open during limited hours so there are long lines in the parking lots. State governors have issued stay-at-home orders. What’s a gardener to do? It’s planting season so we ordered seeds […] ...
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I started working at nurseries and garden centers in 1988 part time (thank you, motherhood) after learning to garden at my first home. I’ve had the pleasure of knowing Andre and Mark Viette, Pierre of Sunny Border, Kurt B., as sources of our plants. Also Marianne Willburn, Carole R...