Garden space is a rare commodity today—so few of us are operating out of our patio with little or no land to work with, which makes it more important than ever to make use of all your garden space. The best way to do this is to grow your garden upwards, filling that Y axis with fine flora.
A vertical garden has many advantages over a traditional (flat) garden. First and foremost, it lets you fit many more plants into a small space. Vertical gardens also put plants right up to eye level, which makes their beauty and fragrance easy to admire. And bonus—this also makes them easy to inspect for pests, easy to tend, and easy to harvest. Since they don’t require stooping or hunching to deal with, they are easy on the gardener’s back and perfect for the elderly or disabled.
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We'd just like to wish all of you mothers out there a Happy Mother's day. I know I will spend this weekend, letting My mother, sister, aunts, and nieces know how much they are appreciated. I've got to make a last minute stop by the garden center before I leave work this afternoon. It's a good thing my family doesn't make me do a whole lot of guessing–Wayside Gardens is a really convenient place to work when Holidays roll around. I've a got a long list of roses, perennials, annuals, and even a few fruit trees I have to pick up.
Also, we are having a 50%-off sale on select roses until Mother's Day. Some of our favorite rose varieties are included — Knockout Roses, Floribundas, Hybrid Teas, Climbing Roses and many more. This is a great opportunity to get sweet deals one beautiful summer blooms.
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Some roses smell nice, and others barely have a scent. Sometimes the fragrance can be lost when breeding roses for another purpose, and other times, fragrance is the sole reason that a particular rose breed exists at all. If you are looking to grow roses that smell nice, I am going to share a list of roses that only exist to make your nose happy.
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If you subscribe to the Wayside Gardens Newsletter you may have already gotten this week's "Plant of the Week" newsletter featuring Heuchera 'Midnight Rose.' (Actually you may have gotten it twice – it was sent out without pictures the first time. Oops!)
This is a really beautiful perennial that will add foliage interest and depth of color to your shade garden. 'Midnight Rose' is very tolerant of heat and humidity, and it thrives in part shade. It may tolerate full sun in the cooler zones. This exotic Heuchera starts out black, speckled with bright pink, and slowly transitions to a deep purple as the season progresses. The foliage stays bright and colorful from spring until fall. This plant is a great shade-garden companion to the brighter foliage of Hostas, Hydrangeas, and other Heucheras.
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Happy Valentine's Day!
What would Valentine's Day be without roses? Wayside has plenty of the most popular roses in the country, including the beautiful Mr. Lincoln (Above). Everybody knows that certain rose mean different things, and you don't want to send the wrong message. I will try to sum it up really quickly:
Red – Red roses mean simply "I love you!"
Pink – Pink Roses connote Happiness and Admiration.
Yellow – Yellow roses mean "You're a Great Friend!"
Orange – Orange roses connote desire *wink*.
White - White rose symbolize purity, and are often used for weddings.
Black – Black roses symbolize death and mourning – Only appropriate for funerals and your weirder friends.
That should give you at least some idea which roses go to which loved ones. Check out our Roses By Color if you'd like to grow them yourself in time for next year, or maybe give a live rose gift!
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The new catalogs are on their way if you haven't gotten one already. There are beautiful new items and, of course, all the classic Wayside Gardens favorites. The 2009 Wayside Gardens Catalog is really beautiful. I am especially impressed with the rose line-up. We have many old favorites, but there are also a few really amazing new roses this year.
Request Wayside Gardens Spring 2009 Catalog
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For example, the brand new Rose 'Fragrant Wave' is a really impressive plant. You can see from the picture that it is extremely floriferous. 'Fragrant Wave' is a hardy, disease-resistant re-bloomer with big, fluffy white blooms with subtly golden center and a spicy fragrance.
I believe Rose 'Wildberry Breeze' is my personal favorite, but mostly because it is so pretty. This is not to say that this new Rugosa cultivar doesn't have much more to offer than her stunning looks. This is a cold-hardy (zone 4), black-spot resistant, beautifully fragrant rose that will bloom through two long seasons.
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