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With nearing mid-October, it’s almost time to put the plants away for their winter storage. First before that happens we will get on with the work of planting thousands of tulip bulbs to greet customers next spring. The annual flowers are scheduled to be removed in the ground beds this coming Sunday and then the […]

Now that the Vernal equinox is past, the spring season has begun with daylight hours now longer than the nights. Soon it will be time to stop lighting tuberous begonias and dahlias in the greenhouse as the longer daylight hours will ensure that the plants will make growth for flowering instead of the energy going […]

I just wanted to remind our Garden Club members to use up their Dayton Dollars as the last day for redemption is Thursday, September 2nd as our annual fall sale starts Friday, September 3rd for Garden Club members only. Not all items will be on sale as much of our stock is grown right here […]

This Tuesday we received balled and burlapped trees from our longtime vendor of 45 years Losely nursery. They are available for this fall, or next spring sales, although fall planting is excellent because of the prolific amount of root growth that occurs which will give the tree or shrub a jump start in spring! We […]

Winter has certainly asserted it’s grip yet again with snow and freezing temperatures and that for spring that a slow, gradual warm up is preferable to an early spring. My friend and mentor, Mr. John Ravenstein said that spring came slowly in Holland but here quickly as he said it was a crazy house. No […]

This weekend’s Mum Fest in Barberton will be quite busy to say the least with all the activities centered around Lake Anna. As an outgrowth of the first Mum Fest in 1991 to celebrate Barberton’s Centennial, the fest activities and site has grown exponentially. When the town founder, Ohio Columbus Barber started construction on his […]

Another Mum Fest in Barberton is over and the planning starts for another fest. The weather while cloudy and cool in the morning seemed to warm and give way to sunshine when the festival began at 10 a.m.! The cool days of October soon will give way to that massive kaleidoscope of colors in Ohio […]

It’s never ending with the planting and sticking of thousands of cuttings! Now with the construction starting of the online catalog, many detailed descriptions have been finished concerning the new items except we are still waiting for our acknowledgment from Brotzman’s Nursery for about **SIXTY** varieties of magnolias. These descriptions will be used to write […]

December 26, 2014 For sure most of us would have liked a white Christmas but even so, December has been an easy weather month compared to last year. Except for the evergreen of conifers and some shrubs, the natural world seems dead but as we all know, all is but asleep only to come alive […]

by Tom Dayton 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 […]

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With the March sun and warmer days, the plant world is just now showing signs of life from the long winter slumber. Witch hazels are the first to bloom with these strange but beautiful thread-like flowers resistant to frosts and even freezes. (Insert picture) The native witch hazels through much breeding and many crosses have […]

I think the weeds in the sales yard and surrounding areas are on the run finally as the entire area looks much better. Yet another load of Emerald Green arborvitae and Spring Grove western red cedars as well as rhododendron will arrive next week to keep the nursery well stocked. Our ornamental grass department had […]