We hope that you and your family will choose to visit us this weekend for a stroll around our greenhouses and to pick up some garden goodies! Our plants are gorgeous and the greenhouses are brimming over with colour and selection. Plants are a fantastic gift for most Moms – even if she is not a gardener. (We are happy to advise on EASY plants!)

Happy Mother’s Day to all the hard working Moms out there. We hope you can take some time to enjoy the colours, fragrance and pure beauty that plants bring to our lives!

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We are excited to be growing a new hanging basket collection this year – both single variety and some mixed combinations in 12” grapevine cones. We have grown moss cones for a long time now and thought grapevine would make a fresh change this year. This contemporary design provides a unique and classy look and can add the finishing touches to a veranda or front door. All our hanging baskets are planted with our heavier blend potting soil, to help hold moisture longer and are topped off with a scoop of slow release fertilizer.

To keep your baskets looking fabulous until fall, fertilize regularly with a water soluble fertilizer such as Miracle Grow and apply slow release fertilizer granules about once a month. Pay attention to your sun / shade requirements and be sure to choose a variety or mix to suit. We can help you with this! Choose from our ‘No Deadheading Required’ Calibrachoas, Trailing Petunias, Lobelias and Scaevolas in this unique basket.

Salvia are excellent, easy to grow perennials, offering a summer show of intense colour. They are a popular plant for attracting pollinators and look fantastic planted in large groups. Our new Profusion series of Salvia are available in Pink, Violet and Perfect, a beautiful icy blue.

Plants grow 16-20” tall and are covered with flower spikes held above mounds of dense foliage. Profusion Salvias have been bred to rebloom multiple times if the spent flowers are cut back – a huge improvement over earlier varieties. Be sure to find a spot in your sunny garden for these long blooming, easy and heat loving perennials!  

For the best choice of annuals, it is ideal to be at the flower farm and purchase as soon as possible in the spring. However, most years the weather is not yet reliably warm, even by Victoria Day weekend. It's safer to harden off your new annual plants before you put them directly outside.

If you wait until later, there are no guarantees that you will get the plants you wanted! It’s a catch 22!

Buy now and harden off your annuals at home. Put your new hanging baskets, planters or individual pots or trays of plants outside in a sheltered location in the day and if the temperature is forecast to drop below 5°C, move them back inside the house or in a shed at night. Do this for a week or two or until you consider it safe to plant.

This method is called ‘hardening off’ and it gets the plants acclimatized to being outdoors gradually. That way, when you do plant them they will be more accustomed to wind, rain, cold etc. Even if you do decide to take the plunge and plant early and we don’t get frost, the ground will not yet be warmed up enough for any growth to take place. The plants may not die due to frost, but they will just sit there waiting for some heat before they start to root in and grow. Of course, violas, perennials and shrubs are fine to plant anytime and are not affected by frost.

We have some fantastic new colours and varieties of the flowering perennial climbing plant, Clematis. Who can resist the huge flowers of Vicki, Zara or Rebecca! Plant in full sun, where they can climb or scramble up a trellis or other structure.

Clematis like their heads in the sun and roots in the shade, so create a shady spot at the base of the plant using stones or other perennials. In the spring, cut back plants to live buds and tidy up any dead stalks.