Lazy Days of summer

Where has August gone?  Days are getting noticably shorter and a lot of the autumn season perennials are displaying their beauty.  
Did you know that is what causes garden mums to start to flower?  The shorter daylength actually also triggers the maples leaves to start to colour too!
We "trick" some garden mums into flowering earlier by placing them into 'beds' that we can cover in the evening with a black-out fabric.  Every night they get put to bed at 8pm and uncovered around 9am the next morning to create a 13 hour night.  By doing that we can have garden mums in colour by late July & early August.  The 6" pot size are the ones that get that special treatment, so if you are looking for something to replace a tired looking annual in some of your pots, they are perfect to tuck in & give the planter a new fall look.

We do these in 6 different time frames, so they begin flowering in consecutive weeks.  Below are mums from an early group, and the picture showing the cover (above) is of the last group that will be ready in a couple of weeks.

Fashions for September

For 3 weeks, our team has been dressing up pots with fall fashions including garden mums in the latest colours! Flowing fountain grass, lacy kale and frilly coral bells add to the ensemble. These gorgeous decorations will replace those tired spring fashions and add pizzaz where you need it most!