Just received this newsletter hot off the press!

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Some Like It Hot....

Temperatures are above 90 degrees and the Antique Rose Emporium - San Antonio is blooming!

FRESH NEW TOMATO, PEPPER AND VEGGIE PLANTS ARE HERE.

Homestead, Celebrity, Juliet, Roma, Large Red Cherry, Cherokee Purple...to name a few of the tomato varieties.

Pepper plants have blooms and peppers. Choose from a variety of bells, petins, and ornamentals.

Veggies.... Squash varieties, cucumbers, etc.

3 FOR ONE PRICE - 4" herbs.

4" herbs regularly $2.50 each - now 83 cents each! This is cheaper than the grocery store. Dry some or freeze some now at this great price and stash them for your winter pantry. Ask us if you need ideas. We have some great recipe books and booklets if you need more inspiration. (SALE ON HERBS WHILE SUPPLY LASTS)

WHAT ELSE IS ON SALE? NOW THROUGH 8/17/08:

FRESH NEW ONE GALLON PERENNIALS HAVE ARRIVED.

Bat-faced cuphea, Imperial Blue Plumbago, Serena Purple Angelonia, Serena White Angelonia, several colors of Salvia Greggii. Wow! These plants are beautiful and loving this summer sunshine. Plant these beauties and invite the family over for dinner. Your guests will think you have quite the green thumb. (These one gallon plants are on sale at $4.99 through 8/17/08.)

ALL ONE GALLON ANNUALS, PERENNIALS, AND HERBS - $4.99 - THROUGH 8/17/08.

(Regularly $6.99 - $7.99).

$2 OFF POTTED BULBS - Including crinums, tuberose (starting to bloom), dwarf cannas, crocosmia (blooming), daylilies, iris. (Sale through 8/17/08)

CURRENT SELECTION OF Renees Garden and Botanical Interest SEEDS ARE ON SALE AT at ½ OFF. While supplies last on 2008 seeds.

These are all 2008 seeds. Some should be planted now, save some for planting later this fall and next spring. (Do you ever lose track of where you stashed those seed packets? Tape them to the calendar month you want to plant them. Too many seeds?.... tape a note reminding you where you stashed the packets.)

2008 WILDSEED FARMS - 1/4#, 1/2#, Pound seeds are reduced to 1/2 price while supply lasts. Be thinking about places to plant wildflower seeds this fall. New stock of 2009 wildflower seed packets have arrived. The selection is great!

THINGS TO DO IN THE GARDEN.....

FEED WITH ORGANIC FERTILIZER NOW.

Have you ever enjoyed a great batch of salty tortilla chips and salsa only to pay the next day by drinking more water than usual... This is the process your plants go through when you use a chemical or basically salt-based product to fertilize during our dry periods. Your plants can not reach for a drink of water.

Organic fertilizer will remain in your soil feeding your plant and the soil around it. The plants will only take up the nutrients they need. We have liquid fertilizers you mix with water and use as a root drench as a foliar feed. We have several types of dry fertilizers you just add to the base of the plants and water in. (Lady Bug's "Flower Power" is my favorite. Come in and we will show you our whole organic fertilizer selection.)

LIQUID SEAWEED FOR THE SUMMER TIME...

This is not a total fertilizer. Consider it as a vitamin pill for your plants. Spray a mixture of one ounce per gallon of water on your plant foliage to make the leaves stronger. (Spider mites on palms and tropical plants seem to disappear when Liquid Seaweed is used.)

Save time... use one ounce HastaGro and one ounce Liquid Seaweed per gallon of water and spray the foliage of your plants. You will be fertilizing and strengthening your plants at the same time.

ON THE HORIZON...

The Antique Rose Emporium will be closed on Monday, September 1st for Labor Day.

Celebrate Art in the Garden is September 13th, Saturday only. Vendors with garden-related art will be featured at our Hacienda. Refreshments and music. FREE!

Retail Hours:

Monday - Saturday - 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Sunday - 11:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Closed Labor Day.

San Antonio

7561 E. Evans Road

San Antonio, TX 78266

210-651-4565