Nursery Spotlight: Flowering Crabapples

Flowering crabapples are just now starting to come into bloom. This group
is one of the best flowering trees we can offer our customers. They are extremely cold hardy and will never fail no matter how cold the winter. Crabapples can endure windy locations and poor soil and still produce gorgeous blooms every year. The new varieties we carry are disease resistant and the foliage remains beautiful all season. We have different
size plants that can fit any area from a courtyard to a large open yard.
We also have other varieties that have small persistent fruit that look like
a cluster of berries that will hang on the tree long after the foliage is gone
into the winter. This provides another season of interest and in midwinter
will provide much needed food for birds.


Interesting Plants for Early Spring Color

While native New Englanders may cringe in anticipation of that inevitable last snowfall, Mother Nature waits for no one and is moving forward. Look outside and see the first buds of the season rapidly emerging on trees and shoots coming up in your garden. It's spring and an explosion of color is closer
than you think. [more]


A Kinder, Gentler Bamboo

You can't swing a stick and not see a bamboo product these days. Look at
the Sunday paper or any major design magazine and you'll see bamboo floors, bamboo housewares, clothing, sporting goods, you name it. It's undeniable, bamboo is hot. While experts trumpet the sustainable nature of the plant for it's appeal, the truth is that bamboo's sheer exotic beauty and elegance has made it a favorite of consumer and gardener alike. [more]