Today's Trip to a local Nursery.

14 years ago

Actually I should have written todays trip to my favorite local nursery and also Home Depot. But it was much too long for all that to fit in the title.

Our local Home Depot here sells a tremendous amount of plants. At this time each spring they put up chain link fencing in a section of the parking lot and extend the nursery section to four times its normal size with spring plants. By midsummer that section is taken away and it does back to the year round garden section.

I can't tell you haw much of what grows in my garden came from Home Depot. I buy lots and lots there.

Today at Home Depot I bought two big bags of potting mix as I am going to need some for tomatoes to pot, four tomato plants for growing in pots. Those are two Bush Goliath and two Patio tomatoes. A flat of Marigolds that I know its too early for but were too pretty to resist. Plus I do need them. I blueberry shrub that I had to have because it was just loaded and loaded in bloom. I already have about 30 blueberies so don't actually need another. Impulse buy LOL! Two watering wands because they never last all summer and its nice to have extras.

Then I went to the nursery. Bought two bags of Greensand, two bags of 20 lb Rose Tone (never can find a larger size), one 20 lb bag of Plant Tone. The daylilies get the Plant Tone, the roses the Rose Tone. Both get the Greensand. I am a big believer in Greensand. I feel it is marvelous stuff.

One bag of tall King Humbert Red Cannas (marked down) some red marked down oriental lilies, a flat of Impatients. Not enough, I need two but they will have more stock later. A tomato plant all potted with cage setup for people like I am this year and have no room for inground tomatoes.

Lots of violas. Lots and lots of violas. All of them the Sorbet Brand Series. An entire flat of Sorbet Coconut Swirl. Two six packs of Sorbet Orange Delight and Aorbet Plum delight. One six pack of Sorbet Blue Heaven.

I will go out and either start planting something or start putting out some fetilizer.

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daylily_dreamer
14 years ago
Oh Rita - you make my heart ache! I am so ready to buy some annuals but know I need to hold off. I love violas! And if the sorbets are the ones I am thinking of - they are beautiful.
newyorkrita
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14 years ago
Here is a link to a comercial grower website that has the most amazing slideshow showing all the Sorbet line in closeups. Then there also landscape views. Really lovely.

Here is a link that might be useful: Sorbet Viola Slide Show
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jean_ar
14 years ago
I have never heard of Greensand.Is it sand or a potting soil?Sounds like you are really getting with the spring planting.I have gotten out and planted a couple more daylilies,and took some pictures of a couple things blooming right now, but,its not daylilies yet.

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Maybe my next photos will be daylilies.They seem slower this year to me.

Jean
blue23rose
14 years ago
Rita, you are hard at it already. Can't wait to see all your pictures this year. You always have something beautiful in bloom.

I can't remember ever planting violas, but have admired them. The slideshow had some very pretty faces on it.

Jean, Your roses are so pretty. I love Knock-Outs and mine have just a very few blooms. Wish they had a fragrance. Oh well, can't always have everything.

Vickie
newyorkrita
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14 years ago
Jean, really nice looking roses and clematis. The daylily scapes will come. We just all seem to be really impatient this spring.

Greensand is not potting soil or really sand. It is the name of the product. Think of it as a vitamin supplement for your flowers.
Julia WV (6b)
14 years ago
Violas reseed here year after year and the garden is full of them. I spotted some growing in the lawn area too.
When I get a chance, I post a few pics of them but those little buggers are all over the gardens this year. I love the face patterns on them.

Julia
newyorkrita
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14 years ago
I went to another local nursery this morning. Bought a bag of garden dehydrated manure for the daylilies, a mini petuna hanging basket because it was so pretty and two potted gorgeous red verbena plants. Just too pretty to leave be. I usually buy them in the bedding size but am not going to get any more than these two for this year in the verbena.
jean_ar
14 years ago
Rita, I have 2 Better Boy tomatoe plants in pots, so far.I usually plant 3 and some times 4 plants in pots.I have to watch them close and keep them sprayed with stinky stuff to keep the deer from eating them, too. I bought a pk of Purple verbena and made 2 hanging baskets with them.I had went to find some wave Petunia's but, they didn't have any yet.I had planned to go out this afternoon and see if they had them yet,, then go b y Home Depot and get a couple bags of Cow Manure, but,thanks to the statin drugs,this afternoon as I was getting ready to go,I became Blind in one eye and was afraid to go out, thinking I will be in a mess if suddenly both eyes go out on me..So, I stayed home,and the one eye has not cleared up yet.Its happened before a few months ago,back in January I think,and I quit taking that medicine,and seen a new Dr 2 weeks ago, that insisted on putting me on a different medicine,Crestor, in the very lowest dose,and I went ahead and been taking it for 11 days. So much for that one, too.
I want to see if I can find that Greensand here,and see what it is, how expensive, etc..

Jean
newyorkrita
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14 years ago
Oh Jean. I don't know why you have so many problems with your doctors not listening to you. Very scarry about the vision problems. You need to get checked by a doctor, it could be something else.

I don't think Home Depot carries Greensand.

I have to go for doing some tomatoes in pots this year while I switch things around and can get them in ground again. Can't give up my tomatoes.
jean_ar
14 years ago
I won't give up my tomatoes, either.Last year, one of my plants was the little ones, forget the name of them, some thing about 100, but,don't know the full name.They are marble size.And just when they were red and ready to pick, deer came in that night and ate every one of them.Thats when I found out deer loves tomatoes, too,They had never bothered them before, so I guess they just had not found them yet..I kept the big ones sprayed,and they didn't bother them.I love fresh tomatoes.They are so much better then store bought.

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