Sweet Peet is a natural, unique, versatile, nutritious material that is 100% organic due to its make-up of virgin wood products, manure,and plant fibers. It differs from many mulches and soil amendmentsin that it contains no human waste, no construction material or junk wood, such as pallets, and no chemicals. Sweet Peet’s ‘secret” is that unlike […]

Looking for something for the cemetery?  Click here. Wreaths, like Christmas trees are part of a tradition of bringing evergreens indoors. Suspended from entry doors, walls and windows or above mantels or lying flat as centerpieces, evergreen wreaths with berries, red ribbons or perhaps pine cones are one of the emblems of the holidays. Made […]

The Grave blanket construction is well under way as we continue to construct them and harvest branches as orders pour in. The flower bulb planting is nearly done as the second batch of 8,000 is nearly accomplished in order to ooh and ah all the customers that visit the nursery in spring and making them […]

With the passage of the coldest month of the winter and even the fact that Punxsutawney Phil didn’t see his shadow, this winter season will be short. Right? I am wondering if anyone really believes if the famous groundhog doesn’t see his shadow that the winter will be shorter than usual. For gardeners, farmers, nurserymen […]

Despite the shutdown of our retail sales work goes on for the preparation for a beautiful spring as the buds on the trees and shrubs begin to swell.  Daffodils behind the Owl Barn are now open an in (photo) other parts of the grounds in a display of floriferous sunshine. The first wave of tree […]

With the now removed annual flowers from the landscape beds, the next binge at the nursery is weed control. Glypsophate (Roundup) is employed to kill weeds that will overwinter and then bolt upward with the warmer days and longer days of spring. Two troublesome weeds are the sow thistle and the ever present garlic mustard. […]

The snow was certainly a surprise on Sunday although timely for the fourteenth of November. Almost everything in the sales yard was put away into winter storage with the ongoing construction of another house for storage of plants in early spring, only to be vacated… The Grave blanket construction is well under way as we […]

Last Saturday, the Blueberry Fest seemed quite the hit as evidenced by the full parking lot that remained full for hours as well as finding parking spots for the additional 25-30 vehicles that could not fit into the already full lined spots. Now the question is how to properly manage the fall festival that is […]

Well the nursery is open and it’s good to see customers again. We have been super busy but the week of March 8th we will receive a huge load of perennials plus our first shipment of bare root trees from Oregon. The overwintering houses remain open most days for ventilation and for keeping the growth […]

Tomorrow, the perennial house and the greenhouse containing flowers and vegetable plants opens. Due to the abnormally cool to cold weather, some of the perennials will not be available for a week or more. As far as the heat-loving flowers and heat-loving vegetable plants, it is much too early to plant them as any experienced […]

As the hot and mostly dry weather continues, it pays for us to be vigilant in the look out for clogged sprinklers and defective electronic valves or some of the stock will suffer even only after one day without water. Some container trees, such as river birch and golden weeping willow, require additional irrigation or […]

Our cut Christmas Trees are all Ohio-grown and fresh! While we no longer have our Christmas tree plantation in Indiana or Pennsylvania, our cut trees are about as close as you can get to cutting your own! All of our cut trees are grown on a small family-owned plantation in Southern Ohio that takes great […]

Today is the last day that Dayton Dollars may be spent at the nursery and hopefully everyone will have used up these dollars that garden club members receive. Tomorrow begins our fall sale that will be for garden club members only through Labor Day and then open to everyone else. Anyone not a member is […]

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 the ground. Other trees are in […]