Cool weather veggies are ready!

Get the hoe, rake and shovels ready, it’s time to plant cool weather vegetables. Think of all the delicious side dishes or colorful salads you could enjoy from growing your own veggies. We have broccoli, cabbage, collards, lettuce, spinach, swiss chard, onions and more. And the salad bowls, let me tell you about our beautiful pots of mixed lettuces, cute, plump radishes, spinach, chard, arugula and more in 8” pots that are brimming with wonderfully textured shades of green. Just set the pots on your back steps, patio or porch. Then at dinner time step out the door and snip and toss a fresh salad colorful, crispy and tasty you will want to skip the steak!

Non-Stop Color in Shade

If you are looking for riotous color all summer long for your hanging baskets, patio planter or shade gardens, I can’t think of a more suitable plant to use than the Tuberous and Rex Begonias. They also make exceptional houseplants because of their showy flowers that bloom continually for many months. But even more exciting is the fantastic foliage that some of them possess. Some resemble stained glass windows with their unique patterned leaves – nothing less than a work of art! We have a new shipment in the greenhouse waiting for your oohs and ahhs…

2011 Perennial of the Year

One perennial every gardener in our area should consider is Amsonia Bluestar. It is a new plant out on the market that we will be offering this spring and are quite excited about. Besides the masses of blue flowers, the fine green texture in the spring through summer turns a gorgeous amber shade in the fall.

Your garden would benefit from this wonderful 3 season perennial. Contact us for availibility.It is a full low-mid -sized shrub that attracts butterflies but most thrilling is that it is drought resistant and DEER RESISTANT!.


It is a full low-mid -sized shrub that attracts butterflies but most thrilling is that it is drought resistant and DEER RESISTANT!.

Your garden would benefit from this wonderful 3 season perennial. Contact us for availibility.


























Your garden would benefit from this wonderful 3 season perennial. Contact us for availibility.
It is a full low-mid -sized shrub that attracts butterflies but most thrilling is that it is drought resistant and DEER RESISTANT!.

Crazy about Camellias!

Amidst all the dull and dreary outside our door, has been a shining star for  most of the winter – our southern favorite, the Camellia.
It makes me smile to look out my window and see all the colorful blossoms in the whites, reds and pinks in the snow, a cold rain and even when the thermometer dips so low the petals shine with a thin layer of ice.
More special attributes of this wonderful shrub: it is evergreen, is available in low-growing, mid-sized and tall varieties and very important to all of us in this area- the camellia is deer resistant, That is worth reporting!


There will be over 100 beautiful in bud and blooming Camellias delivered to Pinecone Perennials on Wednesday, Feb. 16th. Come and appreciate the beauty!
For more fun and informative camellia facts, attend the Twin Rivers Camellia club meeting held on Tuesday, Feb. 15th at 6:30pm at the Riverbend townhall. Wendy will be giving a lecture on "Containerized Camellias". We would love to have you!

Valentines Day Special

Today Only Monday, February 14th

Our Valentines Day Special –25% OFF All Orchids!

Choose an orchid for it’s fragrance, it’s color or beauty. Today choose an orchid for your valentine and give a gift that will bloom for months to come

Delicious Daphne

It is so exciting to walk through the garden and catch a whiff of a delicious scent. Not knowing at first where it is coming from, you continue to search and then right in front of you appear the bright, pink buds amongst the glossy leaves of the treasured Daphne.
This is a special shrub for a shady area and preferably near the garden path or at an entrance where one could enjoy the wonderful scent of it’s blossoms.
Our Daphne are all in bud and just starting to show the wonderful pink color of their blossoms. Remember this evergreen variety if you need to add some color and fragrance to  a low light area of your garden. 

Forcing Branches for Indoor Color

Lets bring spring inside to make us smile until the actual season finally arrives…
The shrubs that naturally bloom in the spring  are good choices:
Forsythia, Flowering Quince, Crabapple, Plum, Cherries, etc.
Six weeks before they bloom naturally is a good time to cut some branches making sure the buds are already swelling. The warmest time of day is the best time to cut when there is sap in the branches. Choose the branches with the largest buds remembering to be selective, as you are actually pruning the plant and want to leave it with a good shape.
Soak the entire branch overnight in the bathtub to make it easier for the buds to open.
The next day, give the branches a fresh cut and arrange them in a vase with warm water. Remember to change the water daily.
It is so exciting to enjoy spring indoors just a bit earlier!

New Pottery Arrival

Just beautiful!

The Campania Pottery
is the highest quality
around for outdoor,
glazed pottery.

This is just a taste of what 

is to come for spring 2011.

 

Come drool or 

better yet 

purchase one 

for your Valentine!

Grow Your Own Veggies!

Want to save money on groceries, eat healthier and have fun? It is easier than you think to grow your own vegetables and herbs. We now offer a simple Seed Starter Kit with all you need to begin growing veggies of your own choice in your own home. The kit consists of a soiless/seed mix, a growers flat that will hold 72 individual plants, the tray to hold the seed tray and enable you to water the seeds and a humidity dome to cover the tray with all for $10.49.
Take time to read some of the growing directions by P.Allen Smith on the following link, www.pallensmith.com/articles/1-2-3-done-grow-your-own-groceries

Stop by Mitchell Hardware, choose your seeds, fill  your seed trays and have fun!

New Arrivals for Valentines Day

Colorful houseplants,

Luscious foliage,

Gorgeous Orchids,

and Gift Cards to cover all your bases

Perfect, long lasting Valentines gifts

all available now!