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Pruning Knockouts & Crape Myrtles

Two of the most spectacular additions to any landscape are Knockout Roses and Crape Myrtles!  Both offer fabulous color way beyond a single season each year, and both are amazingly easy to grow and tend in our area.  REMINDER:  This is a super planting season and...

Fall Mulching

Fall Mulching

Just like with planting spring flowering bulbs, let Thanksgiving serve as a reminder that it is time to mulch your flower beds and gardens to protect them from temperature extremes in the season ahead.  If you mulch too soon, the frost-then-thaw cycle that is common...

Planting Spring Blooming Bulbs

Planting Spring Blooming Bulbs

Since late November is the best time to plant your spring bulbs, lots of families have taken to making it part of their Thanksgiving tradition!  Tulips, daffodils, hyacinth, crocus, grape hyacinth and more should all be planted later this month and we're going to...

Fall Planting of Trees

Fall Planting of Trees

While many of us might think that spring is the perfect time to plant trees, it is well known in the landscaping industry that the fall season is prime time for planting of a large assortment of trees and shrubs. And if you follow our advice, you’ll be very happy with...

Playing with Pansies

Playing with Pansies

Pansies - and their tinier cousins, violas  -  are without a doubt a beautiful way to keep color in your landscape through fall and winter, straight through to spring!  Now that your summer annuals have reached the end of their life span, these make a perfect...

Show Off Your Mums

Show Off Your Mums

Magnificent Mums are the diva of your October landscape!  We are really proud of selection this year, featuring an amazing collection of sizes and colors and - just as important but harder to find - ours are strong and healthy.  Our mums can offer hundreds of blooms...

Ornamental Cabbage & Kale – Fall Beauties

Ornamental Cabbage & Kale – Fall Beauties

Seriously -  just look at these beauties!  With heavenly colors and a strikingly unusual design, your landscape will get all the BEST kind of attention – especially when you plant them in large numbers! Accent them with winter favorites like pansies and viola for even...

Spice Your Food & Keep the Vampires Away

Spice Your Food & Keep the Vampires Away

You probably guessed we’re talking about garlic – the wonder herb! So much flavor, so easy to grow, so limitless as to when it can be planted and how it can be used! Never grown garlic before? Now is as good a time as any to get started, and you’ve come to the right...

Now is the Time to Plant Trees & Shrubs

Now is the Time to Plant Trees & Shrubs

Every advantage goes to trees and shrubs that are planted in October!  The first advantage is YOURS, since temps are comfortable enough that you don’t even have to break a sweat doing it. The next advantage is to the trees and shrubs themselves, since this is perfect...

Fall is for Planting

Fall is for Planting

Fall is time to plant what? How about ALMOST ANYTHING?! It is widely accepted throughout the horticultural industry that Fall is the BEST time of the year to plant perennials, trees, shrubs, many herbs, &  more! What is it that makes Autumn the ideal season for...

Fall Mums

Fall Mums

Wait until you see our magnificent selection of mums this year at EJC! We think you'll be as blown away as we are! For color-lovers, mums are a quintessential fall classic and we have all your favorites. You'll find that the variety of sizes we offer works well in...

Second Season Gardening

Second Season Gardening

  Vegetable gardeners know this month is the start of Second Season gardening; a final chance this season to plant and enjoy fresh veggies straight from the garden to your dinner table! There are lots of vegetables that are perfect for fall planting - knowing...

Pansies & Violas – Our Favorite Winter Annuals!

Pansies & Violas – Our Favorite Winter Annuals!

As your colorful summer blooms begin to fade, it's time to break out everyone's favorite Fall & Winter annuals! The unstoppable Pansy & it's tiny cousin, Viola! These affordable bloomers have one of the longest bloom times of ANY annual in any season. Since...

Fill Your Bleak November Days with Bright Pansies

Fill Your Bleak November Days with Bright Pansies

The temperatures are getting cooler, the beautiful and bright landscaping of summer has faded away and you’re trying to prepare yourself for big changes in the weather. It’s not exactly beach time, which also means flowers are hardly at their prettiest. But wait - if...

Fall Plants for Outdoor Decorating

Fall Plants for Outdoor Decorating

It’s relatively easy to figure out the type of plants you want to plant in the spring to brighten up the outside area around your home. But which plants are the best for fall decorating? Obviously, pumpkins, gourds, hay and colorful corn can have a stunning visual...

Planting Bulbs for Spring

Planting Bulbs for Spring

The long, hot summer has finally ended and fall has moved in. The leaves are changing on the trees, mornings, in particular, are crisp and cool, and those of us who are into planting bulbs can’t get them in the ground soon enough. The perfect time to plant bulbs for...

It’s Time For Mums,  Pumpkins, & Fall Decor

It’s Time For Mums, Pumpkins, & Fall Decor

It’s that most glorious time of the year, when summer fades into the calendar and fall come bursting forth with all those amazing gold, dark red and orange colors.   Is there anything better than those first mornings of autumn when the air is cool, crisp and ripe with...

Preparing and Planting your Fall Garden

Preparing and Planting your Fall Garden

You might not want to think about it just yet but if you want to get the most out of your fall garden, now is the time to start preparing for it.  Especially, if you want to have some great cool-weather produce. When summer has waned, the first thing need to do is...