Sun requirements – obviously you can’t mix sun and shade plants together in the same container. But sometimes when you start shopping for plants, you can easily forget and start grabbing anything. So start with a plan of how many pots and keep in mind sun or shade.

Start with the soil first. You want to use excellent soilless potting mix. The better the mix, the better your flowers will grow. We recommend Fafard Potting Mix. It is great for containers and lets the roots grow easily. Using top soil and cheap potting soil will clump and make it hard for the roots to grow resulting in a poor plant.

When picking out your flowers, the sure fire method to create a stunning container is to use a thriller, filler, and spiller. The thriller is the tall plant that can be planted in the center – ie purple fountain grass, coffee cups, canas, salvia. The fillers are moundy plants that will fill up space in your container – ie vinca periwinkle, dianthus, diacia. The spillers are the trailing flowers that will cascade down the sides of your pots – ie sweet potato vine, petunias, verbena.

Grouping containers together can give a visually stunning look. Think outside the box – or in this case the container and try new combinations of annuals and perennials to create containers that will “wow” your visitors!

Bulk Mulch

We offer three different bulk mulches. Each load is a bobcat scoop. Delivery is also available. Minimum 4 scoops for delivery.

Dyed Black Bulk Mulch - $32

Dyed Red Bulk Mulch - $32

Natural Brown Bulk Mulch - $25

Bagged Mulch

Black Diamond - 2 cu ft bag $4.50

Pine Bark Nuggets - 2 cu ft bag $4.99

Grade A Cypress All Bark Mulch - 2 cu ft bag $8.99

Midnight Black Dyed Mulch - 2 cu ft bag $4.99

Mini Pine Bark Nuggets - 2 cu ft bag $4.99

No Float Red Cypress Mulch - 2 cu ft bag $4.99

Pine Straw - $7.99 / bail

Bagged & Bulk Top Soil

Bulk Top Soil - $25

Fafard Premium Top Soil - 1 cu ft $4.99

Garden Magic Top Soil - 40lb bag $3.99

Soil Amendments

Pine Soil Conditioner - 2 cu ft bag $4.99 (use as a mulch or to enrich the soil)

Baccto Garden Soil - 1 cu ft $4.99

Fafard Canadian Peat Moss - 2.2 cu ft $11.99 3.8 cu ft $16.99

Compost + Manure - 40lb $3.99

Fafard Complete Planting Mix 1 cu ft $6.99

Bring your walls to life with the GroVert Living Wall Planters! This system is designed for DIY homeowners with its ease of use and unique adaptability. Simply mount the bracket on a secure vertical surface, fill with plants and hang it — it’s that easy! Try clustering GroVerts together to create one of a kind designs, or for a beautiful accent add one of our GroVert Frames and instantly transform your walls into a living gallery. The possibilites are endless!

Open & Closed Terrariums – Open terrariums are not the same as a dish garden / planter. They are stillin a glass container, just no lid. The sides are high around the plants and the container only has a small opening. Closed terrariums require less water because none is evaporated. The water used by the plants is released into the atmosphere, condensed on the top and sides of the terrarium and falls back to the plant – creating its own ecosystem. Very cool and very easy.

Create your own Terrarium

Glass container – needs to be cleaned and dried completely before use. You can get creative with you containers – mason jars, miniature greenhouses, vases, apothecary jars, wine bottles. Pretty  much anything glass with a lid or small opening.

Pebbles – Add small stones, decorative rock, or pebbles to the bottom of your container. You can also mix in some colored glass to add some interest. The neat part of terrariums is that you see everything. You’ll see each layer that you put down. So make it interesting with the choice of rocks you use. It depends on the size of your container, but usually put down a 1/2″ to 1″ of pebbles. This ensures proper circulation of water and drainage.

Activated Charcoal – Lightly cover the pebbles with charcoal. This is only necessary in a closed environment.  The charcoal will filter the air and keep it fresh from oder.

Sphagnum or Sheet Moss – This layer will prevent soil from mixing into your pebbles and charcoal. It acts more like a filter – lets excess water

through, but not the soil. Keeps a visually pleasing terrarium.

Potting Mix – This step sounds easy enough, but you do want to make sure you are using good potting mix – not dirt! You don’t need special potting mix designed for terrariums. We recommend Fafard Professional Potting Mix (it’s a loose blend of peat moss, perlite, and organic matter.) Cheap potting mix usually drains poorly holding too much moisture. Estimate that 1/3 of your terrarium should be devoted to soil. Put half on top of the moss and put the other half down once you have your plants situated. Mist your soil first to make it slightly damp, but not wet.

Plants – This is where you can get creative. If you have a bigger terrarium, then planning your design is more critical than if you have a small terrarium. Choose plants that are slow growers. We have Itty Bitty plants that are tiny for little terrariums and 2″ – 4″ plants for larger terrariums.

Plants that work well in terrariums:
Ferns – Bird’s Nest, Maiden Hair, Button, ect…
Palms
Hypostes – Pink, White, Red Splash
Herbs
Crotons
Baby Tears
Duckfoot Coleus
….and much more

Choose plants with different textures, heights, and colors to make your terrarium visually interesting. Place your plants in you terrariums before planting them so that you can play with the design. Start with the bigger plants and fill in with the smaller plants. After you have figured out your design, you can add the rest of the potting soil.

Step 1 -

Fertilome’s All Season Lawn Food Plus Crabgrass and Weed Preventer. This should be applied early spring, around March through mid-April. This application gives your lawn a light feeding combined with the pre-emergent herbicide Prodiamine. Prodiamine is the best pre-emergent available because it gives your lawn up to 8 months of weed seed prevention. If you are or have applied grass seed, wait three weeks after the seed has germinated before putting this step down.

Step 2 -

Fertilome’s Lawn Food with Iron. Apply this step in September – try to think of Labor Day as the time to do this step. This step gives your lawn quick release Nitrogen with Iron to strengthen your lawn and give it that deep green color. This product is great because it has quick release nitrogen. Slow release products are temperature sensitive and will not be available to your grass when the temperature cools down.

Step 3 -

Fertilome’s Lawn Food with Iron. Yes this is the same step as Step 2, but very important to repeat this step. Apply in late fall – try to think of Thanksgiving as the time to do this step. You apply this while the lawn is still green, but not growing anymore. This late fall feeding will be stored in the grass and will help build a stronger root system this winter and provide great green-up next spring.

Bonus Step -

Natural Guard by Fertilome, Top Dressing. This can be applied in the spring or the fall. The main purpose of this product is to reduce watering up to 50% with repeated use. It is an organic compost, light fertilizer, high concentration of humic acid, humates, and microbs to enrich your soil. Humates hold nutrients in a usable form for the growing of grass and plants. It will help compost grass clippings and other organic material, turning them into nutrients. This Top Dressing will break up clay soils for better penetration of water and nutrients, creating natural aeration.

Allium giganteum ‘Gladiator’

Fun for kids! They look like giant purple lollipops (5-6″) atop 3-6 foot leafless stems. Lightly fragrant. Deer, squirrel, and rabbit resistant.

Grape Hyacinth 

A great long lasting bulb with tiny bell-shaped blue flowers. This has many applications due to the long lasting flower period. It works great as a pot flower, in fltower beds, and is used as a cut flower. Height – 6″

 Snowdrops

Dainty 1″ white flowers with green dots. One of the first flowers of the season, often blooming out of melting snow.

Tulip Darwin Mix

These are the best mid-season Tulips for large flowers, strong stems, and clear bright colors. Good for large scale plantings, and masses of strong color.

 Hyacinth Pastel Mix

Hyacinths have such a wonderful fragrance and long lasting color. Our mixed packets are filled with pastel colored blooms.

 Crocus Mix

This is a mix of purple, white, lavender, and two toned. The bloom in early spring and are great to force indoors.

Paper Whites

As a member of the Tazetta classification, Paperwhite Narcissus have multiple flowers per stem and require no pre-chilling to bloom. Used primarily for indoor forcing, they take 4-6 weeks to bloom.

Narcissus ‘Ice Follies’

Large Cup Narcissi have only one flower per stem. They have a yellow center with creamy outside petals. Daffodils are deer resistant.

Narcissus ‘Fortissimo’

Large Cup Narcissi have only one flower per stem. These have golden orange cups with yellow petals. Daffodils are deer resistant.

Narcissus Trumpet ‘Marieke’

Trumpet Narcissus have the largest flowers of any Narcissus group. They are characterized by a very long trumpet (corona) that is as long or longer than the petals. Daffodils are deer resistant.

Tulip ‘Golden Apeldoorn’

These are the best mid-season Tulips for large flowers, strong stems, and clear bright colors. Good for large scale plantings, and masses of strong color.

 Tulip Negrita

These mid-season bloomers grow 15 – 18″

Tulip Pink Diamond

These late spring varieties finish off the season with a flourish. These grow to 20″.

Quality: The bigger the bulb, the bigger the flower it will produce. Healthy bulbs are firm and fresh.

Planting: Loosen the soil before planting the bulbs. Press the bulbs carefully  into the soil with the pointed side up. Cover the bulbs with the removed soil and gently press down. 

Fertilizing: Fertilize with Bulb Tone in the spring as bulbs are emerging and again in the fall to help them over the winter.

Deer Resistant: Daffodils and paper whites are reliably deer resistant. Other bulbs should be sprayed with Liquid Fence at the first sight of emerging bulbs.

Designing Your Bulb Garden or Container: Three key factors to keep in mind when planning a bulb garden – flowering period, height, and color.

Plan your bulbs to have constant flowering for as long as possible. Crocus and Daffodils will bloom later in the spring. Grape hyacinth is a great gap filler between the two so that you always have color.

Keep in mind of flower height. You do not want to plant daffodils in front because it would block your view of the hyacinths.

Another tip is to plant large clumps of one color bulb. This will give you a greater impact than if you plant a few spaced apart.