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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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