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This edition features several new catalog sites and sales, as well as some new sites and products for tools to make gardening easier. There's bad news for some of us about this next summer and drought, as well as on invasive plants - and some good news about gardeners you may know.
Greer Gardens offers monthly specials - but check out the rest of this catalog - especially if you fancy Japanese Maples or rhododendrons. I have ordered their special Frugal-dendrons several times and been amazed at the size and quality of the plants. Be sure to use the Acrobat version of the catalog viewer - there are great color photos. Bargain pond plants. For a limited time only, Van Bourgondien (known for their Dutch bulbs) is having an Internet Only special on water lilies and bog plants. The prices on waterlilies are terrific - $9.95 apiece - or there are packages of selected lilies and/or bog plants for even greater savings. Imagine my surprise to discover that Klehm's Nursery (a great source of peonies, hostas and daylilies) is no more. The nursery packed up and moved to Wisconsin (better soil, they say) and has been reborn under the name Song Sparrow. New name, new catalog (Lots of good color photos) - and the real news is the Peony selection. Imagine peonies small enough to be front of the border plants! And double fernleaf - plus some with unusual twisted petals (Called "cactus dahlia style" peonies") and many fern-leafed varieties. Good news for Southern Gardeners - there is a great selection of early bloomers which very well may go the trick in warmer climates. They don't have a web site yet, but you can request a catalog at 1-800-553-3715 or by email at mailto:sparrow@JVLNET.com I'm thrilled to see that Mellingers has finally got a complete online catalog - they not only carry good plants at good prices, but are a terrific source for all those odds and ends of garden equipment that you always need and never know where to find. They have markers and tags, stakes, rooting hormones, automatic cold-frame lid lifters - even bird seed! . Good prices, too! And be sure to check out their overstock sale - hydrangeas and other trees, shrubs and perennials for $2.75! |
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