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June 5th E-NEWS

The ‘mini-monsoon’ we’ve been experiencing the

last few days has provided welcome moisture but it

looks like we’re in for more hot weather. What that

means is that things will be growing like mad –

especially the weeds. It could very well be that you

have some very unwelcome weeds in your yard or

garden, ones that are actually considered invasive.

Come out to the FREE workshop

we’re holding next Saturday, June

13th @ 2:00.

“Attention Fellow Gardeners:

Columbia Shuswap Invasive

Species Society is holding a

workshop to provide information

about invasive species (also

sometimes called noxious weeds),

and what you can do to become

‘PlantWise’ in your garden! We

will practice your invasive plant ID

skills using some samples, give you

invasive weed management tips,

answer any questions and offer

you gardening resources such as

‘Grow Me Instead’ guides to help

you avoid unwanted invasive

horticultural plants!”

Everyone is welcome to attend but because we’d

like to know how many chairs to set up, we would

appreciate a call to say you will be attending.

In the week ahead, I’ll be putting together the

line-up of workshops for the summer months. I’ve

already had a couple of requests to repeat the

fairy garden workshop and several requests to

have another ‘Old World Stone’ hypertufa

planter workshop (mark your calendar: June 17th

@ 11:00am if you want to go to this one).

We’ve done the containers for Askew’s Uptown

for the last two years and I was pleased with the

results last year but, in spite of having used lots

of water holding crystals in the soil mix, the pots

did dry out from time to time. So this year I

decided to plant up the pots with succulents.

Here’s a top-view of one of the pots:

Nine planters were done with a variety of tender

succulents and given that the pots are cast iron

(getting very hot) and don’t have much room for

soil, the succulents should do well. We’ve had a lot

of positive comments on them already and, if

there’s enough demand, I’ll lead a workshop where

you can pot up your own succulent container.

In last week’s newsletter I wrote about the

deer resistant ‘Gelderland’ cedars. And now

they’ve all sold! But we just got in a new shipment

of Emerald Cedars 4-5 feet, container-grown in 7 gallon pots (so the roots are intact and they

transplant much better than ball and burlap or

field-potted trees).

As the days get longer and we move closer

to the first day of summer, we’ve been fielding

questions about whether it’s getting too late to

plant trees and shrubs. While it’s true that if you

have to transplant something from one part of

your garden to another, or if you are planting a

bare-root plant, you want to plant them early in

the season, when a plant is container-grown and the roots are intact, it can be planted at any time in the growing season. Of course when the weather is hot it stands to reason that you will

have to water more often because the roots are

not yet established and it can be advantageous to

provide some shade for a newly planted specimen

such shade cloth or even landscape fabric draped

on the south & west side of the plant. Spring is a

busy time for many folks but if you didn’t get all

your garden ’projects’ done, you can still do many

of them this summer.

Our selection of perennials is second to

none in the area and the recent rainfall has got

them looking very perky and fresh. All of our

perennials are on sale this week at 25% off the regular price. We offer ‘multiple pricing’ on

many of the perennials we stock (e.g) buy 5 of one particular plant all having the same barcode and you get a 15% discount. With this week’s sale of

25% on all perennials there will be NO MULTIPLE

PRICING.

FYI: now that all of our stock is on a

computer inventory system, we build in discounts

at different levels. For example, because

spreading junipers are often purchased as

groundcover plants (requiring the purchase of

more than 1 plant), we’ve set up the pricing so

that at different levels you will automatically get

a discount. In the case of 1 gallon Prince of Wales

junipers, if you purchase only one, the price is

12.00 but if you purchase three, you’ll get a 15%

discount and the price will be 10.20 ea. If you need

ten or more, the discount increases to 20% off

meaning that the price per plants is only 9.60 ea.

The discounts vary by item purchased so if you’re

buying more than just one item, don’t be afraid to

ask whether there is a discount.

LET ME INTRODUCE YOU:

While these plants may be a bit ‘homely’ and

more than a little ‘prickly’ to handle, there are few

plants that have flowers as vibrant or as beautiful

as cacti. Most cacti are not hardy enough to be

grown in our area but there are a number of hardy

Opuntias (Prickly Pear cactus) that thrive here

provided that their need for excellent drainage is met. I’ve grown some Opuntias in my xeriscape garden for many years and the flowers are

gorgeous as are the ones in the gardens around

Shuswap Lake Hospital and Bastion Place. We now

have ten different varieties of Opuntia in stock

and because they’re perennials, they’re 25% off this week.

Every year I order in many new and unusual

varieties of perennials as plugs (small starter

plants that we then pot up and grow on to sellable

size) so that we can offer them at prices

comparable to my cost from a wholesale grower. It’s a win-win situation because I get to sell some

really cool ‘hot off the presses’ plants and you get

to purchase them at reasonable prices!! While it’s

true that you can find some of these new varieties

in mail order catalogues, purchasing them locally,

allows you to see what you’re getting – a plant

grown in soil that is alive and thriving! If you

haven’t checked out our perennial selection lately,

keep your eyes open for Mukgenia ‘Nova Flame’,

Thalictrum ‘Purplelicious’, Hosta ‘Color Festival’,

Heucherella ‘Glacier Falls’ and Corydalis ‘Canary

Feathers’ to name just a few. Growing perennials from

plugs also gives us the opportunity to grow some ‘oldie

but goodies’ that aren’t easy to find anymore like the

Oenothera berlandieri ‘Siskiyou Pink’.

Its peony season so of course it rained this week! It rains every year at peony bloom time and the

traditional herbaceous peonies can look be-draggled

very quickly. But if you love peonies, you should check

out the Itoh peonies - crosses of herbaceous and tree

peonies that combine the best qualities of both…the

huge flowers and unusual colors of tree peonies and

the ease of care and vigor of the old fashioned

herbaceous – and they don’t flop in the rain! We have

nine Itoh peonies in stock in gorgeous colours from

bright yellow to some fascinating bi-colors on stems

strong enough to hold flowers that can be as much as

10” across. Because many flowers are produced from

side shoots, blooms appear over a long period. It is

not unusual for a mature plant to produce 50 or more

blooms, and if deadheaded after flowering, may even

produce a second flush. Plants die back to the ground

in winter and fresh new shoots emerge from the

ground in spring, growing 24-32” high by summer.

Named for Toichi Itoh, the first hybridizer to

successfully cross a tree Peony with an herbaceous

Peony in the 1940’s, Itoh’s have historically been

challenging to grow and thus hard to find and

expensive. With the advent of tissue culture, however,

they are now more readily available and the prices

are becoming more reasonable. And because

they’re perennials, they are 25% off this

week

FEATURED THIS WEEK

May 29th- June 5th

All Perennials……………25% off

All 4 Packs……….…...….1.00 ea.

All 6 Packs………………..2.00 ea.

All Geraniums…...…1.00 off reg.

New Zealand Flax……25% OFF

Venus Fly Traps……….25% OFF

Plant Supports………..20% OFF

Hanging Baskets…..…20% OFF

Planters…………………..20% OFF

Summer Bulbs…….………….40%OFF

Plant Pots……….…..…..40% OFF

Seed geraniums 85¢ea. or10/7.50 (Only a few left)

Enjoy the weekend!

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