Archive for the Shade Perennials Category

Autumn Fern Brilliance – NEW PHOTOS

To Customer Service — This Fern is a Web Special this week, so I thought I’d share with you some photos I took last week at the Garden Center. These were all Ferns that were out on display in the shade area, and they looked GREAT. They’re big, really well branched, and healthy.   As [...]


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Wayside’s Container Sizes – A Bit of History

Sharon, I don’t know if customers ever ask what our containers are made of or how we arrived at the sizes and materials we use, but I thought I’d fill in a bit of background in case anybody is curious. We use nursery trade containers, which are made from poly resin to be lightweight but [...]


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Wayside’s Pot Sizes

Hi Sharon! It surely was a pleasure to see your new grandbaby in church yesterday. Annette said he looks just like old Mr. Hughes who she remembers from the curb store when she was a kid. But I think he favors his father too. We were figuring he must be the first boy in two [...]


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Trade gallon plant pots

Hi everyone this is Sharon from CS. My team asked me to find out why we say "1 trade gallon pot – 3 qt" for some of our plants. Customers ask about this all the time, and remind us that a gal. has 4 qts. We always just say something about a TRADE gallon is [...]


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Wayside plants waiting to “take off”!

Hi there everybody. I don’t know where I’ve been these past few weeks, but I have finally discovered the blog. I’m Martin Santos, but unless you work in the greenhouses or the Garden Center, you’ve never seen me. Even then, I’m usually just a pair of legs topped with arm loads of plants. I’m the [...]


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