Winter 1996
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If you were smart enough to purchase an original, double award- winning, outdoor-hardy Alpine Trough Garden from us last year, your investment is about to pay off handsomely: they're almost doubling in price. We are now producing them specially for other Garden Centers & Nurseries and delivering or shipping them around the east coast.
At last year's 3rd York Flower Show and the 44th Shrewsbury Flower Show, we won 1st Place-Outstanding Display and Best Of Show, respectively, for our outdoor-hardy, Alpine Trough Gardens and Water Garden's Noisy "Deer Knocker".
If you do have one, be sure to water it (with a sprinkling can or similar device to evenly distribute the water) over the Winter, especially on warmer days when plants can break dormancy and the root system calls for water. If any plant wakes up to a dry rootball, it's a goner, and you've lost it for good. Specimen replacements can be costly, so check it frequently.
Call us quickly if you think there's a problem. We want your investment and future enjoyment to appreciate, and not to lose the precious little gems in that Alpine Trough Garden.
We make housecalls for Trough Gardens also.
Winter Color and Fragrance
As Winter hits us all more heavily with snow storms and cold, and all color seems to have vanished, color become all-the-more- important in maintaining our perspective on our place in the world.
Sometimes we can't remember what the other seasons are like due to the severity of the one we're currently in, yet they all balance out.
Stop by our greenhouses for an eye-and- noseful over this Winter; we've got lots of color and scents galore to perk up your dreary Winter days.
Forced Narcissus (paperwhites) and Hyacinths can be had all Winter long if you put them in some in dishes in a cool, dark place; then simply bring them into a warm room and they bloom (call us for exact forcing instructions). Then throw them into the compost bin afterwards; they'll make great compost in the Spring, since they won't rebloom. Likewise for tulips that are forced, they're spent and also good compost material.
Amaryllis, on the other hand, live gracefully for many years and get better with each passing year. To cause blooming, keep in a dark cellar, water and fertilize, then bring into a warm room. After blooming, allow the leaves to stay and ripen off, cut off the flower stalks, summer over outside in direct sun, water and fertilize and start the simple proceedure all over again. So easy. And so worth it during the Winter when color and fragrance is at a premium.
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Garden Center Is Available For Meetings, Tours & Events
Another First: Hardy Cactus Rock Garden at Our Garden Center
Page2:Lifetime Quality Gardening Tools
Easy Care Houseplants For Winter
Page3:Alpine Trough Gardens
Winter Color and Fragrance
Page4:NASA's Fresh Air Houseplants Checklist
Planning This Year's Gardens
Buyers Beware: Gardening Catalogs Start Arriving
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Mulches: Myth vs Reality. Part 3: "Spring Or Fall"
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