Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays from all your friends at Perk-A-Lawn Gardens.  Our showroom is bursting at the seams with Holiday and Christmas decorations and gift giving ideas.  Come in today and let us help you find that perfect Christmas gift for those special people in your life. Wrapping and Bows are available to help make shopping and the holiday season just that more enjoyable.  Perk-A-Lawn Gardens has unique and one of a kind ornaments that will make your Christmas tree extra special this year. If you are looking for a live or cut tree to bring that evergreen smell into your home, we have those in stock. Frasier Fir from 6' to 10'.  Create Christmas traditions and memories by bring in the children and allow them to be apart of picking out your Christmas tree.  A great time for any family.  See you at Perk-A-Lawn Gardens. (Showroom Hours 8-5 Mon-Sat and 12-5 on Sun. all time on EST)

As the Weather Turns

As summers ends and fall sets in, it's time to stop thinking about a fall cleanup and it's time to get out there and get it done. A good clean up is essential for the health and vigor of your garden. A thorough cleanup will help to remove many unwanted tenants from your garden. Fungus, weeds and other undesirable materials will lay dormant through the winter only to rear their heads come spring. Clipping back perennials, removing infected leaves and disposing of your yard waste will be a great benefit to you. Composting is an option if you have the space and the resources. If not, bag your debris up in a recyclable bag and often it can be put out at the street and picked up and recycled. Clipping back perennials and disposing of the cuttings will additionally help you to maintain a clean appearance to your garden while also reducing the cover space for rodents and other small animals that would likely use your garden as a winter vacationing site. Rodents and other small animals can cause great damage to your plants as they gnaw on stems and trunks of your favorite plants. Not to mention the burrowing through and under your plants creating opportunities for your plants to dry out or even worse to freeze out over the winter months.

While you're out cleaning up in your garden stop to ponder how different locations in your garden preformed over the last year or so. Are there spots that needed more color, fuller plants; how about some need for additional evergreen color? These questions and others should be asked as you float from one spot in your garden to another. Take a few moments to think about what would be best for garden and visualize the impact of how some additional plants or bulbs could greatly benefit your garden with needed color and texture.

Spring bulbs are always a plus in the garden. What a wonderful way to bring additional color to some of those in-need areas. With the many types and a cornucopia of colors how could you not add a few for some fun spring color. Daffodils are one of our favorites. Not only do they handle the changing weather conditions fairly well, they also withstand many of our animal friends. Daffodils have come a long way over the last 75 years. You can select from early, mid or late bloomers along with different sizes, shapes and mixed colors. You can never go wrong adding daffodils to your collection of beautiful bulbs. Tulips would also be a great addition as well to any garden. With hundreds of colors, sizes and shapes you can find the right flower to suit not only the location, but your personal taste. Install tulips throughout your garden to create a spring dance of color that will bring warmth and joy to your heart. Hyacinths are a great way to show off color next to entryways. Plant Hyacinths in larger groups next to where people will be walking by. The dramatic effect will have people abuzz about your remarkable gardening talents. Finally the Crocus bulb and flower, one of the smaller bulbs to plant in and around your garden can be quite fun and beautiful if done in the right way. Remember with any bulbs, quantity and location are the two most important factors in creating a WOW look and feel. For fun take a hundred or so Crocus bulbs and toss them into the yard, then plant them where they fall. Do this every year and after several years you will reap the rewards of an incredible drifting effect that comes in early spring. Now won't that make the gardening clubs members drool as they come to see you. Happy planting!!!