Boston area garden centers: Weston v Mahoney's v Russell's.
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Comments (17)I assume the wall you are talking about is to replace the one that is in some places in the picture along the street, so the level of the property will not be changed significantly. When you put the wall in make sure you allow for the natural drainage, you do not want to create a lake in your front yard. My second observation is that if you take the tree out before you know what it is you may be making a big mistake. There are many Maples in MA and the states in that area are known for their fall color. You would feel like a fool if you take it out and learn from the neighbors that in the fall it was one of the most beautiful trees on the street. With the mature tree I would do my landscaping around it rather that take it out and plant a stick. The mature tree adds to the value of your home both from the pleasure of sitting under it and the money you will get our of it when you sell. I don't know how old you are but it is probable that you will never see the new the stick reach the size of that tree....See More2006 Massachusetts Shopping/Sales Post
Comments (93)Hi Sedum ...yes, I was thinking that people who work with plants are probably not usually that interested in computers, I suppose, but what about all of us here on GW? We are all pretty good in that department? Does it take that much to update a website? More than adding an entry to a blog, let's say? I can't imagine that it would be more than an hour job once a week and many of their employees might be capable of doing it. Am I wrong? You are right Mahoney's doesn't update theirs, BUT they do have an email newsletter, in which they send out specials with photos and everything. I get one. Weston Nurseries...not sure if they update theirs, but they have that gardener's club and when you join they send regular email letting you know what is on sale and if they have special seminar weekends, etc. I receive that one too. I can understand that they are below their usual sales. There has not been a lot of planting weather so far. Once I get past a certain period, I sometimes will just forget my plans and make do with what I have. Soon it might be a little hot to be planting or moving anything without having to really babysit them. I will usually wait for the fall to start making any other major additions in the perennial or shrubs category. Thanks for the link...I missed that article yesterday. Well...I am still in a buying mood though, as I have hardly bought a thing! Two NG impatiens, 1 six pack of pansies, 3 tomato plants and one coleus and one abutilon and that is it. I attribute that to winter sowing more than I do the weather though. Actually though, the last time I was at a nursery, a lot of their plants looked worse from the rain than mine did at home. I do have a hankering for some really new and cutting edge annuals...maybe flowerfields or proven winners and some really exotic coleus, but of course those are the most expensive and anyway, I am not seeing anything I really can't live without. And the PRICES!! Wow, I am having sticker shock and so thankful I did winter sowing this year. I really don't think I would feel comfortable buying everything that I would want for the season at the prices of plants. I think I used to buy 6 packs for around $3. Am I remembering right? Now I have to buy one special annual for $5 or $6. If I could buy 6 packs or even 4 packs for around $4. I would be buying a lot more. If nurseries would offer the quart sizes like Lexington Gardens does for perennials, I would buy more. If they would stop using the most popular sought after annuals to make up $40. hanging baskets and not sell them in smaller sizes, I would be buying more of them. That reminds me of something else that Lexington Gardens does that I really appreciate and use. They print up a simple typed list in booklet form of everything they are planning on having in stock for the season. They just leave them at the checkouts, so the first time I visit there in the early spring, or whenever they come out with it, I pick one up and the next time I am looking for something, I can see if they have it. Thanks again Sedum, for the link and the conversation. :-)...See MoreGreater Boston area Spring Swap
Comments (128)paigect - I don't know what type the iris are as I got them off craiglist. I don't think they're siberean judging by images searches though. I'll definitely pack up some of the phlox for you. note to ishareflowers (well and anyone else who wants iris), my iris bloomed in spades this week but it came out yellow! So maybe the few paltry blooms I got last year were horribly washed out? I'll still bring some in case you want them but I wanted to give you a heads up...See MoreCotton-Arbo retum, Winchester Ma. , in News
Comments (8)Wow! What great shots; thank you sooo much!!!! You have an excellent eye for composition,framing, balance and all; how super of you to go to the trouble of posting these. (I still have not taught myself to do that though I have lots of digital photos now, sigh) The fruited shrub is Aeschulus pavia, the red buckeye.We have 3 because I love them so. Wonderful red candle flowers in spring (but a MAJOR target of winter moth). The acer jap. is Orange Dream, a bit marginal here so it's in a protected spot. (We like it so much, we recently got another to take the place of a thuja that became ugly and bare-centered because we let it get too shaded.) Fabulous glowing yellow orange in spring/ early summer going to brilliant lime by late summer. I'll get the name of the cornus for you tomorrow. Here is the list of vendors that we provide for visitors: THE COTTON-ARBO RETUM WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE FOLLOWING VENDORS AND FRIENDS FOR OUR PLANTS: CT.: Broken Arrow Nursery, Hamden,Ct. Oliver's, Fairfield,Ct. Twomblys, Monroe Ct. Variegated Foliage Nursery,Eastford,Ct. Mass.: Mahoney's Rocky Ledge,Winchester,Ma. Tranquil Lake Nursery, Rehoboth Katsura Gardens, Plymouth Stonegate Gardens,Lincoln Cavicchio Greenhouses, Sudbury Alan Haskell , New Bedford Seawright Gardens, Carlisle Sylvan Nurseries, South Dartmouth Avant Gardens, South Dartmouth Weston Nurseries, Hopkinton Leo Blanchette, Carlisle Newbury Perennials, Newbury Russell's Garden Center, Sudbury Corliss Brothers Nursery, Ipswich Longhill , Ipswich The Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain New England Nursery, Bedford Northeast Nursery,Peabody Completely Clematis, Ipswich Lexington Gardens, Lexington Windy-Lo, Wayland New England Water Gardens, Peabody Betsy Ewing, Bonnie Brown, Judy Brain, Byron Getchell,Frank Vernelli, Molly Sharon, VtSkiers, George Lotkin,Carolyn Ward, Mary MacIntosh, Thalia Avila,Susan Dumaine,Mrs.Stanford Durand, Nan Galbraith, KT Other New England: Perennials by Susan, Amherst,N.H. Lake St. Garden Center, Salem N.H. Rocky Dale Gardens, Bristol, Vt. Cady's Falls Nursery, Cady's Falls, Vt. Mail-Order: Heronswood Nursery , ForestFarm, Greer Gardens,Gossler's Plant Delights Nursery , Fairweather Gardens , Collector's Nursery, Ferncliff Gardens Kurt Bloemel ,Carroll Gardens, Roslyn Nursery, Big Dipper Nursery, Klehm's, Brushwood Karchovsky Cannas ,Avant Gardens, Garden Crossings, Joy Creek Nursery, Donahue's Clematis Bulbs:Scheeper's,Van Bourgondien,Van Engelen,Becky's Bulbs...See Moremayalena
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