While some of us can’t see the lawn for the snow, others are lucky to have it finally gone. Either way we know what’s coming – crabgrass! In southern Connecticut the seed typically germinates around the middle of the last week of April, especially at sites that get a good
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When your customers are looking for a large specimen tree, be sure you are prepared to handle it – knowing what’s involved with transporting and planting a larger tree will make the job so much easier. Consider these important 4 points when going big! 1. Truck weight & bed capacity
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Growing quality plants from seed can be very easy or extremely difficult. Always up for a challenge, Peter decided to give Aesculus parviflora (Bottlebrush Buckeye) a try last fall. Fruits collected from one of Chuck’s mature plants were planted in crates, over-wintered then brought up a few weeks ago into
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Each spring it’s always fun to try something different, and for us that means some new plants! Dan has hand-picked a nice selection of perennials so let’s jump right in and talk about a few of them: ‘Double Decker’ Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) is an interesting perennial which is the result
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Planters’ Choice 2015 Wholesale Price and Reference Guide is ready! Our cover picture for 2015 is the fall blooming Blue Mist Shrub (Caryopteris x clandonensis) ‘Longwood Blue’. Ours are grown right here in Newtown along with two others – ‘Dark Knight’ and ‘Worcester Gold’. It’s a shrub that should be
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While it’s great to have a winter break, sending out the Weekly Picks again means that the temperatures are rising and the sales yards are filling up! Wahoo!!! After looking at nothing but blankets of white since January, we’re ready to look at anything that is photosynthesizing. The trucks are
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Viburnum trilobum ‘Wentworth’ Looking for an easy to grow shrub with multi-season interest? American Cranberry may fit the bill. The variety ‘Wentworth’ has a flowery spring show, three-lobed glossy-green leaves in summer, cranberry-red fruit and nice fall color. Its rounded habit works as a single specimen alone or in the
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Common Witchhazel is one of those plants that many forget about let alone know about! In October they’re loaded with fragrant, thin-petaled flowers along the branches which sometimes coincides with its yellow fall foliage display. A nice addition to the larger shrub border, also beautiful as a single specimen as
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Rhus aromatica ‘Gro-low’ (Fragrant Sumac) is a great plant for stabilizing slopes and banks thanks to its fibrous root system and arching, rooting branches. Growing only about 2′ tall but 8′ wide you’ll get a lot of bang for the buck. Plus, the fragrant leaves have gorgeous fall color. Full
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Ivory Halo Red Twig Dogwood is useful in many landscape situations for its bright variegated foliage and red stemmed winter interest. This shrub Dogwood is a compact grower getting about 4-6′ tall with upright branching. It also has interesting, though not super showy, flat, flower clusters that give way to
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