It’s been great to see everyone this spring at the CENTS and New England Grows Trade Shows. Now, the speaking season switches to homeowner groups, which have also been superb this spring. Speaking of traveling, I’ve recently returned from a fabulous three-week botanizing expedition through South Africa in search of bulbs, ferns, and other cool […]
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The 2005 catalogs were mailed at the end of December, and we hope you have received your copy by now. If not, send an e-mail to office@plantdelights.com and we’ll get another copy on the way. Please don’t blame us if your catalog doesn’t arrive. Did you know that the Post Office expects to lose 5%
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2004 is nearly history as we prepare for the upcoming new year. The 2005 catalog has finally gone to the printer and will be mailed at the end of December. The catalog preparatory process, which starts in earnest in late September, takes about 2 ” months from start to finish. It would be fun to
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Can you believe that it’s November already? It seems like we were just starting spring and now we are getting the greenhouse heaters ready for fall. I hope you have had a great gardening season, despite the weather glitches that always seem to occur around the country. In late October, I was in Florida and
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September starts with our oops of the year. It seems that due to a computer coding error, nearly 500 plants were omitted from our website when the new fall catalog went up. The plants are in place now, and we apologize for the problem. Check out the complete list of on-line only plants at www.plantdelights.com.
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June started with a bang as we welcomed Horticulture Magazine’s Great Plants, Great Plantsman Symposium to Raleigh. After a wonderful series of talks by speakers such as Tom Fischer (Editor, Horticulture Magazine), Helen Dillon (Ireland), Bob Lyons and Todd Lasseigne (JC Raulston Arboretum), and yours truly, Plant Delights welcomed 180 wonderful gardeners from around the
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Greetings from Plant Delights! It’s been a hectic month, which is always the case during the busiest shipping season of the year. We’ve made it through two weekends of open house including nearly all day rain on the first Saturday and Sunday. Open house visitors were treated to the grand opening of the new waterfall
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It’s been quite a good spring so far at Plant Delights…better if we could quit having late spring frosts. We covered plants in the garden for the nights of April 4 and 5 when temperatures were predicted to drop into the mid-20s, but we stayed just above freezing for the night. We are hopeful that
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Greetings from Plant Delights. February greeted us with more snow and ice, but it looks like the end of February has marked the end of the worst of the winter weather. Damage in the gardens was minimal and we are already seeing some pleasant surprises in plants that we didn’t expect to survive the winter.
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Greetings from Juniper Level! We hope you are having a great winter if such is possible. If you are near Oswego, New York, we’re really sorry that you are buried under 5′ of snow, but I bet your perennials are staying warm. We have just had our fourth snowstorm of the winter, which is quite
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