Dianthus Days

Look at these beauties! Is there something missing from your landscape? Are you struggling to find a plant small enough to round out your garden borders? The perfect plant does exist, it’s a dianthus! Petite in size these plants give off enormous amounts of color. Typically found in hues of white, red, pink, and purple.

 

Check out these dainty beauties while supplies last!

  • Scent from Heaven Angel of Peace Dianthus

Rainy Day Blooms

 

Finally, some well needed rain is reaching us here in the coulee region! It may be a dreary day, but fear not, your landscape doesn’t need to leave you will the same feeling. We have numerous shrubs and perennials in full bloom that will brighten up your landscape on days like today. Stop in and brighten your landscape today!

  • Peach Drift Rose

 

Deadheading Flowers, Do or Don’t

What is deadheading? As flowers start fading, pinch or cut off the flower stem below the spent flower and just above the first set of full, healthy leaves. Should flowers be deadheaded? That depends on the flower. Generally most annuals and perennials will benefit from deadheading. If a flower blooms continuously, like zinnias, cosmos, and coneflowers, it will help the flower set more blooms. Flowers that bloom only once, such as foxgloves and hollyhocks should not be deadheaded as the spent flowers need to produce seed for next year’s bloom. Please note that it is NOT necessary to deadhead. Many gardeners find it relaxing and fullfilling to deadhead; to other gardeners it is a monotonous chore. If you are unsure if you should deadhead, check the flower out on the internet or call our nursery.

The Place to Shop

This week (June 1st) we unloaded two semi’s full of perennials, shrubs, roses, and etc.   So if you are looking to update your yard or replace those tired, old looking shrubs, stop in and shop at Trees Today Nursery.   The products we just received are high quality and beautiful. We must have over 200 coneflowers in stock.  Our Blue Marvel Salvias are an intense blue and blooming along with the yellow tickseed. What a striking combination the blue and yellow will make. The peach drift/carpet roses that arrived are to die-for.  We carry so much more then the normal run-of-the mill plants.  Our variety of shrubs and perennials is huge.

OMG – Just Beautiful

Oh my gosh, JUST BEAUTIFUL. Two words to describe the roses we have in stock. In our opinion, never have we seen such beautiful roses for growing in Zone 4.  These new varieties, Grace ‘n Grit and Nitty Gritty roses are wowing everyone with their superb performance. They bloom all summer, in fact well into fall; they come back in spring; and they are available in pure, bright colors of red, pink, yellow, and peach. The Grace ‘n Grit roses have long stems so you can pick them and put them in vases. We have over 100 roses on hand. Stop in and let a staff person help you pick the perfect rose for your location.  The following are actual pictures taken from our stock roses.

 

Grace ‘n Grit red rose
Photo by Trees Today Nursery

 

Nitty Gritty yellow rose
Photo by Trees Today Nursery

 

Niitty Gritty peach rose
Photo by Trees Today Nursery

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nitty Gritty Peach rose
Photo by Trees Today

Nitty Gritty yellow rose
Photo by Trees Today

 

 

The Phlox of Fall

No, we’re not talking about flocks of birds, we’re talking about flowering phlox! A small plant that packs a punch of color, especially late into the season. There is still plenty time to plant if the procrastination bug got to you this season. Now is the time, the phlox are in full bloom here at the nursery. Stop in and bring some vibrant color to your garden!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Coral Crème Drop Phlox

Gardening in August

As the garden season is winding down, following are a few suggestions on “Gardening in August”:

Quit fertilizing rose bushes, shrubs and trees after August 15th.
Start dividing flowers that need it, i.e. irises, hostas, daylilies, grasses, etc.
Continue watering evergreens until a hard freeze.
Continue weeding your garden.
Continue deadheading flowers that will continue to bloom.
Remove deceased plants from your garden.
If the annuals in your planters are wore out, consider replacing them with fall mums.
Harvest your herbs.

 

Latest Arrivals

We just received a shipment of some unusually beautiful perennials and shrubs. Ann Magnolia shrubs arrived in two different sizes, therefore they have two different price tags. There are some blooms on them and are very nice and full. To me the Ann Magnolia is by far the best of all the Magnolias. Then we have lots of Zagreb and Moonbeam Coreopsis that are blooming their heads off. I’ve been working here a decade and the best looking Artemesias are here now! We have more giant, zone 4 hardy hibiscus in red and rose color. Presently they are not blooming but are loaded with buds ready to open. We also have gaillardias, hydrangea trees, White Fringe Trees, Yellow Grace n Grit roses, plus many, many more plants.  Stop in!!

Artemesia
Photo by Trees Today Nursery

Zagreb and Moonbeam coreopsis
Photo by Trees Today Nursery

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Grace n Grit Yellow Rose
Photo by Trees Today Nursery

Gaillardia
Photo by Trees Today Nursery

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Quick Fire Hydrangea tree
Photo by Trees Today Nursery

Ann Magnolia Shrub
Photo by Trees Today Nursery

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sneezeweed? A blooming workhorse of a plant!

Sneezeweed  (Helenium) is an undeserved name for this great plant.   Years ago the leaves and flowers of the plant were ground up for snuff, thus causing a sneeze.  Sneezeweed blooms from late summer up until frost, nonstop.  A great wildlife plant for bees and butterflies.  In fall when some of our perennials are drying up, the sneezeweed will provide food for those butterflies and bees.  Then in winter birds will pick over the seeds.  Sneezeweed is also a great plant for medium to wet soil (will not tolerate dry soil).  A must for clay soils.  Another plus, Sneezeweed is deer and rabbit resistant.  At present we have three varieties of sneezeweed in stock.  They are Mariachi Bandera Sneezeweed, Mariachi Sombrero Sneezeweed and Mariachi Salsa Sneezeweed.

 

Look at all the buds on this year old Sneezeweed:

Helenium or Sneezeweed
Photo by Trees Today Nursery

Daylilly – the Tough, Adaptable Plant

Daylilies are noted for their toughness to adapt to almost any soil and light condition, but will perform best in full sun.   They tolerate road salt. Their vibrant colors could be magazine photos.  Take a look at the intense color of Indian Love Call (just amazing color).  Daylilies usually bloom in late June and July. With modern hybridization many new ones are rebloomers.  A new one this year is Saffron Skye, a beautiful ruffled gold daylily.  Their maintenance is pretty easy and they handle our winters with ease.  Following are some of the daylilies we have in stock.

Grape Magic Daylily – Hemerocallis
Photo courtesy of Bailey Nurseries

Primal Scream Daylily
Photo by Trees Today Nursery

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ruby Spider Daylily
Photo by Trees Today Nursery

Mini Stella Daylily
Photo courtesy of Bailey Nurseries

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Indian Love Call Daylily
Photo by Trees Today Nursery

 

Black Eyed Susan Daylily – Hemerocallis
Photo courtesy of Bailey Nurseries

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Saffron Daylily
Photo by Trees Today Nursery

WOW! and just in time for Mother’s Day

We have some amazing plants that just arrived on Monday, May 4.  Many are blooming.  At the end of this article are actual images of these plants, in stock, and at our nursery.  Stop in!  Also, we will be getting more hanging baskets and annuals before the weekend.

 

Pink Double Knock Out Rose
Photo by Trees Today Nursery

 

Pink Supreme Carpet Roses
Photo by Trees Today Nursery

 

Grace n’Grit Roses
Photo by Trees Today Nursery

 

Sea of Hydrangeas
Photo by Trees Today Nursery

 

Summer Crush Hydrangea
Photo by Trees Today Nursery

 

Cezanne Clematis
Photo by Trees Today Nursery

 

Rebecca Clematis
Photo by Trees Today Nursery

 

Row of Clematis
Photo by Trees Today Nursery

 

Golden Sphere Tickseed
Photo by Trees Today Nursery

 

Close up of a Brown Eyed Girl Sunbelievable
Photo by Trees Today Nursery

 

Row of Brown Eyed Girl Sunbelievables
Photo by Trees Today Nursery

 

Lilac Tree
Photo. by Trees Today Nursery

 

Miss Kim Lilac
Photo by Trees Today Nursery

 

Dwarf Korean Lilac shrub
Photo by Trees Today Nursery

 

Spruce Tree
Photo by Trees Today Nursery

 

Arborvitaes
Photo by Trees Today Nursery

 

Bush Clematis
Photo by Trees Today Nursery

 

Ada with a Mandevilla
Photo by Trees Today Nursery

 

Branch of a White Fir
Photo by Trees Today Nursery

 

Showtime Crabapple
Photo by Trees Today Nursery

 

Redbud Tree
Photo by Trees Today Nursery

 

Blossom of a Centennial Blush Magnolia
Photo by Trees Today Nursery

 

Bud of a Horse Chestnut tree
Photo by Trees Today Nursery