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Posts made in December, 2007


Live Holiday Decorations
If you’ve got a poinsettia or amaryllis sitting in your home, making it look festive and bright for the holidays, don’t send those beautiful plants to the landfill with that dried up Christmas Tree. They are perfectly healthy and can be made to bloom year after year.

Many people buy Amaryllis
for holiday decorating–the huge, brightly colored blooms have become a
familiar centerpiece in many homes. But Amaryllis require lots of light and
water, and may be difficult to maintain indoors indefinitely. The solution?
Move your Amaryllis to the patio when the weather warms up. Or think completely
outside the box—or porch, as the case may be—and transplant your holiday
Amaryllis into your garden, where you can enjoy it well beyond the holidays.

Bloom-happy Amaryllis is desirable in almost any garden, given the
various colors and shapes of its many cultivars. Amaryllis makes a great
landscape plant. Of course, these beauties are much easier to care for in a
garden if the climate and soil are right.

You can also train your poinsettia to be bright red again next year

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41840 It's not too late to order those Wayside Gardens gift certificates. If you order one of our gift certificates, it will be gift-wrapped and delivered with one of our brand new spring 2008 catalogs for you friends and family to browse and make their decisions. These gift certificates can be used over the phone, through the mail, or conveniently at waysidegardens.com.

The new catalog is full of all of your favorite roses, perennials, trees, and shrubs. We also have many items exclusive to our website. If you order now your gift certificate may still arrive before Christmas. If you're not looking to get anymore gifts, you can request our free Spring Gardening 2008 catalog and start browsing for the coming spring season.

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Spring Gardening 2008 Catalog


Posted on Dec 6, 2007 | 3 comments

It's almost that time again–the cold of winter is setting in,  and gardeners are twiddling their thumbs. What do we do to pass the time? Well, browse gardening catalogs of course. And, I've got a brand-spankin' new copy of Wayside Gardens Spring Gardening 2008 catalog lying on my desk, fresh of the presses. You can request a copy of your very own at waysidegardens.com.

This book is probably our most beautiful yet, starting with the giant, bright gold Paeonia 'Bartzella' bloom bursting from the cover. There are new items on almost every page, like the succulent tumbleweed, Senecio 'Kilimanjaro' or the new variegated cottoneaster. There are also many classic Wayside favorite rose varieties, perennials, trees, and shrubs. So, if you are going to be spend the winter inside anyway, why not spend it planning a beautiful garden.

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