May
27
2010
With Memorial Day weekend coming up, now is the traditional planting time for your vegetable garden. We have a wide selection of heirloom and hybrid tomatoes available in individual pots for sale. If you want to try only one of each kind, instead of having to buy a pack, come see us! We will have over 60 types! Some of my favorites are 'Sun Sugar', a hybrid yellow cherry tomato with the same sweetness as 'Sun Gold', but with more crack resistance. It's sweet as candy in the summer! Another favorite...
May
20
2010
Peonies that is! Our rockii hybrids are finishing up blooming, and now we are on to the American hybrids, the Daphnis, Saunders, and Gratwick hybrids. They have been in bloom for us for a few days now in the gardens. I'm sure this will be busy weekend at Linwood Gardens Festival of Tree Peonies (www.linwoodgardens.org) With the predicted heat coming this week, I'm sure that this weekend and the following weekend will be the best weekends for viewing. If you're thinking of taking a trip to our...
May
06
2010
The always anticipated shipment from Iseli Nursery has arrived! We have some really great dwarf conifers for that special spot in your rock garden or trough. These are what I call "toys" for your garden! Special small trees and evergreens for a variety of uses. We have folks buy these for their railroad gardens and for bonsai, for stand alone plants for containers and mixed in with other low miniature plant like Sedums and Sempervivums. Their very slow growth rate makes them suitable in small gardens....