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Get a jump start to the season and start planning your spring and summer containers! There’s a great selection of sizes, colors and varieties in Newtown ready for your patios, containers and garden beds.Pot sizes include 3.5″, 4″, 6″, 10″ plus flats. The selection also includes Mandevilla, Hibiscus, Gardenia and Continue Reading...

Boxwood are one of those indispensable evergreens shrubs used for their formality, low maintenance and deer resistance. they add instant definition and structure to outdoor spaces. Spring fertilizing and summer pruning keep them looking good so you can spend your time on the fussier material. A good fertilization helps them Continue Reading...

Carex pensylvanica is a grass-like perennial that is typically found on sandy soils in dappled shade throughout the eastern half of the country. Pennsylvania Sedge can tolerate less than ideal conditions in the garden. It is a tough spreader that is great for under deciduous trees, in fact it is Continue Reading...

If there’s room for one more shrub in the border, and there always is, here is our suggestion: Dora Amateis Rhododendron. As you can see it’s a small leaf Rhododendron with pale yellow buds opening to bright white flower clusters early to mid-season, but it’s the size that’s the winner: Continue Reading...

There are few shade trees that can rival the London Plane Tree (Platanus x acerifolia). It has some great features that make it a worthy street tree from small towns to large cities, front yards to city parks. It is a cross between Platanus occidentalis (American Sycamore) and P. orientalis Continue Reading...

This week we had some beautiful, large columnar growing varieties of Sweetgum, Serviceberry and Flowering Cherry come off the trucks along with the Green Pillar Oaks seen here. Their narrow shapes are what you need for height along walkways and driveways as well as windbreaks and screening. They make interesting Continue Reading...

We’ve had a nice start to the incoming material here in Watertown including these beautiful cutleaf Japanese Maples! Acer palmatum ‘Red Select’ and ‘Viridis’ are seen here. They’ll make nice additions near patios or front entryways since they have interest pretty much all year long. Plant them in partial shade Continue Reading...

About this time every year our eyes focus on the subtle blooms of the Lenten Rose (Helleborus hybrids). They’re a wonderful early sign of spring and with a winter like this they’ll be a welcome sight! They often bloom when you can still see piles of snow, and the soft Continue Reading...

Here’s one perennial that actually sounds better in Latin….Stinking Hellebore is definitely one of those under-used garden gems that deserve a chance in any landscape. Its flowers are not like the better known Lenten Rose, theirs are smaller with less color. But, what is noticeable are the bright chartreuse bracts Continue Reading...

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 Continue Reading...