Fall is a great time to plant. Due to higher soil moisture, lower temperatures, and reduced water loss from leaves (transpiration), fall is the season for installing those plants that you have been longing for. There is generally plenty of time for the plants to grow roots with minimum stress. Root growth can continue until soil temperatures reach 40 degrees Fahrenheit.

The winterberry hollies are beautiful this year and the brilliant red berries will provide great color for you, often through spring. It's a great replacement for the non-native, heavenly bamboo. 'Red Sprite', a 3'- 4' selection is a large-berried dwarf variety. 'Winter Red' is a prolific fruiter and taller (6' - 8'). "Maryland Beauty" is compact (5' - 7') and very heavily berried, with shinier leaves.  

We have the male pollinators,"Jim Dandy" for the early flowering "RedSprite", and "Maryland Beauty", and "SouthernGentleman" for late flowering "Winter Red"

The coral berries are looking nice and our serviceberries are going dormant and will be ready to bloom early next spring! Mountain mints, lobelias and Joe Pye weeds are going out of bloom and their seed stalks grace the autumn breezes. We have an assortment of native rhododendrons, red maples, oaks, red and bottlebrush buckeyes, and other plants ready for planting. Viburnum nudum, black and red chokeberry and inkberry holly are looking nice in their autumn cloaks!

Disease resistant American elms, American beech, musclewood, redbuds, bald cypress and oakleaf hydrangeas are available. Christmas and maidenhair ferns are prime.

If you are looking for a visual screen or buffer planting, we have some nice green giant, emerald green, and douglasii arborvitae, as well as the non-native, but graceful and well behaved golden hinoki cypress (for $14.50/3'-4' tree).          

We have many botanic delights from which to choose! Come by to see, learn and enjoy.

Many native wildflowers, trees and shrubs are in serious decline, but you can help them to recolonize our environment by integrating them into your landscape. Every positive effort helps to move us back towards ecological stability.

Our address is 5200West Heaps Road, Pylesville, MD 21132. (410) 836-0500.

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