April 2012

Choose flowering shrubs with some attitude!

Cultivate some personality!

Use your “outdoor attitude” to choose flowering shrubs

We could wax poetic for days about shrubs that perform well and add a burst of color to Texas gardens. But when it comes down to it, all that matters is your personal style and gardening attitude.

Geek Garden: Plants and pop-culture converge

Garden Options, Inspired by The Hunger Games

May your horticulture outcomes be ever in your favor

As many avid readers know, Suzanne Collins’ critically acclaimed trilogy, The Hunger Games, fires up the imagination. The first installment of this saga is currently being gobbled up by the masses, thanks to the movie that’s now in theaters. The books and film are also filled with plant references.

Beneficial nematodes—microscopic organisms pack a big punch

Beneficial nematodes

Defenders of the garden!

It sounds like a line lifted from a comic book, but beneficial nematodes live up to the hype. For gardeners, these microscopic critters are pretty heroic. Though small in size, these worm-like organisms quite literally burst in on the bad bugs, leaving carnage in their wake.

2012 Earth Day Celebration

Celebrate Earth Day with Calloway’s and Cornelius Nursery

Calloway’s and Cornelius Nursery will celebrate Earth Day on April 21 with a day full of special activities including Ladybug and Earthworm demonstrations. Join any of the Texas garden centers for some organic gardening fun.

A Bug Bonanza in the Garden

A Bug Bonanza in the Garden

The cure for what’s buggin’ you!

 

Aphids on your tomatoes, fleas in your beds or grubs in your sleazy soil? Never fear! An organic team of four is available at your local Texas garden center, ready to feast on the irritating insects infesting your landscape. Each member of the posse specializes in catching and consuming harmful bugs to protect your flowers, veggies, shrubs and trees.  So put away the chemicals, because this good bug bonanza will shack up in your garden to patrol for pests throughout the growing season.

StoryBook® Garden Roses

Once Upon a Time -

There were Roses so beautiful they must have come from a StoryBook garden!

 

If you’re not growing roses in your Spring 2012 Texas landscape, you do not know what you are missing! Long gone are the days of poring over rose bushes pruning, fertilizing, treating for insects and diseases plus watering. The days of those pampered prima donnas are over. Through creative technology and trial gardens, our home floral displays are becoming filled with beauty and flowers worthy of any vase.

New Hydrangea Varieties

New Hydrangea Varieties

From Calloway’s and Cornelius

 

Big bold leaves and large clusters of long lasting flowers are typical of the beloved Hydrangea. For centuries, they had been long associated with the enchantment of our grandmother’s gardens. Today, Hydrangeas are making a comeback thanks to their profuse flowering and no-fuss, long lasting blooms of many new everblooming varieties.

Rosanna Tableware Collection

Rosanna Tableware Collection

 

Grace your home with beautiful floral designs year round with lovely tableware from Rosanna, Inc. Cornelius Nursery  offers two inspiring collections this season that will have you enjoying nature as you dine indoors or out.  

Mighty ‘Mato® Grafted Tomatoes

Mighty ‘Mato® Grafted Tomatoes

Combine the great flavors of heirloom tomatoes with the vigor and disease resistance of a super hybrid and get Mighty ‘Mato! Swooping in to save the day-this mighty tomato is actually two plants combined into one from the process of grafting. Grafting joins the top part of one plant (the scion) to the root system of a separate plant (the rootstock).  As their tissues heal, they fuse into one super plant that combines the best of both! Enjoy stronger, healthier plants with larger harvest.

Give Your Garden Instant Energy

Give Your Garden Instant Energy with Brilliant Red Cora Periwinkle

Red Cora from Syngenta Flowers