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December 31, 2010 With the end of 2010 upon us, my hope for you in the new year is that we will not have a repeat of last summer’s heat and drought.   Many plant problems I noticed started appearing in late August and September because of the lack of water….

December 28, 2012   While the clock starts winding down on 2012, the days now are slowly growing longer daylight hours so that when the Vernal Equinox arrives in March, the day length all over Earth will be equal.   Until March, plants will be in a state of…

The Blueberry Fest went well except for the high temperatures coupled with high humidity. The re-potting of shrubs made it possible for the majority of the workers at the nursery to remain out of the hot sun while others had to brave the hot sun to supervise outdoor… Tomorrow is the 9th annual Blueberry Festival […]

For as long as the American experiment has been going on, the American Bald Eagle has been revered as a symbol of strength and ideals of the United States with this bird of prey portrayed on the Great Seal with spread wings, a clutch of arrows in one set of talons and… What’s there to […]

Today is the beginning of our annual fall sale in which selected items will be at 50% off the regular tagged price meaning that some good buys can be had. Please note that not everything will be on sale as much of the stock is “new crop” which means while it is ready… With the […]

With the first week of June coming up, the work at the nursery entails weed control, planting of our pots along the driveway, inserting petunias on the trough of the Owl barn and still the planting of perennials that will become available in the spring of 2020.       … Coming upon Memorial Day for […]

It’s almost the new year and the beginning of winter but even now we are planting trees. Some of our trees are still outside and dug into a fine gravel where they will overwinter so that it’s irrelevant whether they overwinter in the gravel or more naturally dug into… With the first full day of […]

The unusually warm, wet weather while not enough to bring trees and shrubs to life because of their cold requirements, it has caused a small push to the thousands of daffodils and narcissus planted around the nursery as well as some hosta in Wolf Creek Gardens to the… Winter is a busy time in a […]

Today is the last day of business for the nursery as now we will close down until March 1st except for opening on Saturdays for our Winter Seminar series of educational garden topics. While repairs, maintenance and clean up is the norm in winter, the greenhouse… Even though the dark days of winter have arrived, […]

This past week heavy snow and an accompanying cold snap is a reminder of what January is really like and maybe should be like. While the snow itself was not enough to place enough stress on the greenhouses the ensuing freezing rain and then rain made it necessary to… The nursery-greenhouse trade show in Baltimore […]

With the colder and wetter than normal weather, we’re placing the small trees and shrubs into winter storage. There are still many trees on display and any stock put away can still be accessed easily for customers. Flower bulb planting is still going on as we are… As far as the weather is concerned, it […]

As this early Easter approaches, activity in plants outside has been restrained with the relatively cold March. The cold weather has caused delays in receiving bare-root trees and shrubs from Lake County that normally would have already been processed and potted. The… Now that we’ve entered the spring season signaled by the vernal equinox, the […]

Sadly in the afternoon on Sunday, June 18th, our nursery cat L.B. died after having a seizure and then lying down with heavy labored breathing. The past year he had trouble from an animal bite from which he recovered but then in March slowed down from eating which… As the summer solstice approaches with the […]

April 2011 The concept of an edible landscape is not new as it has been an American tradition since Colonial times. As time passed on from the Colonial era, more emphasis was placed on the ornamental value of plants in the landscape other than their value as a… December 30, 2011 Every year as we […]