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October 31, 2009

Crape Myrtles – Gorgeous Red and Pink Blooms

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Crape Myrtles are America’s most versatile long blooming perennial. Have you ever seen a long driveway lined with beautiful watermelon, red, white, pink or white blooms and wondered what it was? Chances are if they were small trees full of blooms it was crape myrtles. Crape Myrtles only grow to approximately 30 feet tall and are covered with blooms. The Crape Myrtle wills double and sometimes even triple in size over a matter of 2-3 years after planting. They are known for their long lasting blooms that last for almost 120 days. Most Crape Myrtles will bloom from spring until fall which makes them an extraordinary plant to plant. They are known for resisting mildew, disease and insects. Most of the Crape Myrtles are known for getting their color and then with each year to come their color gets deeper and richer.

Crape Myrtles are excellent specimen trees, as well as natural privacy barriers. Many customers choose to line their driveways with this stunning tree. Others use them as attractive focal points at the corners of their foundation plantings. Also an exceptional choice to plant in groupings at the corners of your property.

For years, Landscape Architects begged for a plant that blooms red in the summer, (in nature, red is a color rarely seen in the heat of summer). The experts agree that nothing compliments the deep summer green of your landscape better than red… and the Dynamite Crape Myrtle is a perfect choice.

I purchased a few Crape Myrtles last year and from June to October they had doubled in size and were already full of blooms. I love them; their colors are rich and deep and make a great addition to my yard. It doesn’t matter what is planted all I need to do is add a few Crape Myrtles and the color from them overpower everything. You can purchase Crape Myrtles online from a wholesale nursery at www.tnnursery.net or TN Nursery locally they carry a wide selection of Crape Myrtles and will help take care of all your needs.

October 29, 2009

Endless Blackberry Bushes for Your Backyard

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Have you ever purchased a plant and it seemed never ending, it seemed to grow and grow and grow. The berries are never ending but yet you find so many uses for them. That is a prime description of a blackberry bush.

Blackberry bushes can product fruit their very first year and don’t take a specific climate to grow well in. The plants are easily adaptable as long as they can get a mixture of sun and shade. Blackberries can do well their first year but seem to bear more fruit in the upcoming years so don’t get discouraged. Once your blackberry bush has gotten its roots established and starts adapting to the climate it will soon take off and you will be overrun with blackberries.

There are many types of blackberries, wild or tame and with or without thorns are the two prime kinds of blackberries. The ones with thorns are harder to pick but the berries taste and look the same, it just can be a little trickier to pick them and takes a little more diligence in doing so.

Many more people seem to plant the tame ones without thorns which allows for easy picking and they can be trained a lot easier. Tame blackberry bushes can be trained to grow on ropes, fences, trellises or anything that you have established that they can adhere too or run along. By training your blackberries it makes them easier to pick and get too, you don’t want to get on your hands and knees for long periods to pick them so it is much easier to stand and pick.

Blackberries can be used for many things such as pies, jams, jellies, muffins, ice cream and much more. A pot of blackberries seems to go a long way in the cooking world because the taste is sweet yet tangy all at the same time. So as you are trying to figure out what plants or berries you want to plant experiment with some blackberries you can’t go wrong. You can purchase them at TN Nursery or at their wholesale nursery website: www.tnnursery.net.

October 12, 2009

Our First Wholesale Nursery Video on YouTube

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Check out our fist YouTube vid – this one’s on Cattails.

More to come!

October 11, 2009

TN Nursery Opening Season Nursery Specials

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Press Release
TN Wholesale Nursery

10 October 2009

TN Nursery Offering Tree Specials this Week!

As part of the wholesale nursery’s season opening, TN Nursery is celebrating with discounts and specials on the following items:

Maples and Cherry Trees at Special Wholesale
Prices

Glorious Maples and exquisite Cherry Trees provide majestic landscapes and shade areas for any landscape or garden. Both produce leaves and blossoms which are spectacular and low maintenance. This week TN Nursery are offering special prices on these favorites along with delivery to anywhere in the United States of America.

This weeks tree specials are 5 to 50% off of the regular wholesale prices.


Autumn Blaze Red Maple 2.5-3.5″ Calliper Machine Dug

Enjoy the beautiful fall colors of this Maple tree in time for the upcoming season. This tree is pest, cold and wind resistant and a fast grower much in demand by consumers.

These trees are grown mainly for their ornamental beauty and not the fruit. Stunning white flowers adorn the tree in spring and showy red leaves in the autumn. This tree is extremely disease resistant and a good grower.

Sugar Maple Legacy 1.5-2″ Caliper
B&B

The delicious name is perfect for this tree because it produces the very tasty sap used to make maple syrup. This tree is majestic and very tall at full height sporting orange red foliage in the fall.

Leyland Cypress 10-12′ B&B Wire Baskets

A fast growing evergreen tree this Cypress makes an excellent hedge or screen. This tree requires sunlight but also handles poor soils and salty air, reaching heights of over 30 feet even in such environments.

Red Sunset Maple 2″-3″ Calliper B&B

Part of the majestic maple family the Red Sunset Maple is a fast grower reaching up to 60 feet tall. This Maple shows pretty
colors throughout the year.

Cherry Trees also
Discounted!


Yoshino Cherry 3-4″ Calliper B&B

This is a low spreading cherry blossom with pale pink blooms that fade to white toward the end of March. This stunning tree possesses an already perfect form and doesn’t need or want pruning.

Kwanzan Cherry Trees 3-4″ Calliper Machine Dug

This is the most spectacular even of the Cherry trees with double pink blossoms in large clusters. April blooms turn to gorgeous golden autumn leaves in the fall.

Buy now for Christmas Stock

These offers are being made available to enhance retailers fall/winter tree stocks. These trees are Christmas favorites in=
time  for the holiday shopping season.

All trees supplied by TN Nursery are dug just before delivery to assure freshness and quality upon arrival. Delivery is available throughout the United States.

Online or in person, TN Nursery staff are fully knowledgeable and can give you complete  information about climate; suggestions for annuals, perennials, which plants, trees and  shrubs grow best where; which will provide protection, shelter and color. Whatever the question, these folks have the experience and knowledge to advise you on the best options for your project.

For more information and great wholesale offers visit http://www.tnnursery.net/. They deliver anywhere in the United States of America.

Eastern Red Cedar Juniperus Virginiana B&B- All That You Ever Wanted

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The Juniperus Virginiana is the scientific name for the Easter Red Cedar
trees that are evergreen in nature. These trees require well-drained
soil to grow. However, these trees can also grow in a wide range of
soil types. The eastern Red Cedars often attract the birds and form a
part of winter food for the birds. Various nurseries
offer the trees at reasonable prices.

The Evergreen Cedars have leaves that are prickly when they are young. As the leaves grow,
they become scale-like. The color of the leaves is medium green in
summers while it changes to gray during the winters. At times, it
develops a brownish tint during winters. The female variety of the
Juniperus Virginiana grows blue or purple berries. The fruit of the
eastern Red Cedar is fleshy and showy, and they do not litter. The
birds often pick the fruits on the trees and drop them to some fences
or some abandoned fields. The tree-wood is also popular for repelling
various insects.

The height of the Juniperus Virginiana varies. It usually ranges between 30 to 50 feet tall.
The tree grows to be an oval pyramidal in shape. Most of the farmers
consider these trees as weeds and uproot them to make space for some
other types of trees. These trees can tolerate drought conditions that
are common in the urban areas. They can also tolerate the pollution,
poor drainage and the compact soil of the urban areas. The
trees can resist high levels of salt in the soil and therefore are
common on the seasides.

The Eastern Red Cedars are commonly native to South America.
You can also find these trees in the region stretching from southeast
Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. The trees are usually dense but they may
never grow up to be more than a bush if the requirements of the soil
are not met. Though the trees grow at a slow pace, they grow rapidly if
there is proper sunlight and soil.

The branches of the tree continue to droop as it grows. These trees require
regular pruning to facilitate pedestrian and vehicular movement beneath
the canopy if they are grown in the pathways. Pruning also helps in
strengthening of the structure of the tree. The trees can be good
option to plant as street side trees. The breakage in the tree occurs
when the wood is weak or there is poor collar formation. The breakage
of the tree occurs at the crotch.

The Eastern Red Cedar is often an ornamental tree and people grow it in
many numbers. Most of the parking areas have these ornamental trees as
the buffer around the fences. The attractive foliage of the tree and
its dense growth make it one of the preferred trees for the winter
breaks. The tree is ideal for screening and providing cover to wildlife
spread over large areas.

Some nurseries also provide the cultivators. You can simply plant the tree, water it well
until it gets a firm grip of the ground, and it will grow on its own.
The only thing to take care here is that the soil must not be moist at
all times.

October 10, 2009

The Goldenrod Plant

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Solidago Nemoralis
The Solidago Nemoralis is also referred to as the Goldenrod, Prairie Goldenrod, and the Old Field Goldenrod. It is a part of the Aster (asteroceae) family and is considered a perennial and a native to the United States. Much to popular belief about the topic of this particular plant causing hay fever, that has been proven to be a negative fact. It can grow up to  inch to 2  feet in height, while this is still known to be the smallest of the goldenrod species. Its stem is a grayish-green or red in color with tiny white hairs covering it. The leaves grow up to 4 inches and get to be about  of an inch wide, getting smaller as they proceed up the stem. The leaves are delicate and smooth to the touch and grayish green in color as well. It does produce flowers, which are yellow with a delicate smell, measuring about  inch across, which produce 4 to 10 florets apiece. The clusters they form are plume in shape while the overall tree shape is similar to that of a vase. When and wherever these plants produce, they will tend to form in numerous colonies. Sun and dry soil is what is preferred of this plant, while the best type of soil contains sand, clay, or gravel. Places where other plants tend to not do as well, these ones thrive, such as slopes. Other places you will find these are areas such as dry prairies, savannahs, empty fields, and along the sides of= most railroad tracks. They are all over the United States mostly except not as much or at all in the very west side of the country.

Bee butterflies, beetles and flies are amongst some of the insects that attracted to it due to how it provides them with pollen and nectar. This is why it would thrive in a butterfly garden or rock garden, and also the fact that it can tolerate poor types of soil. Caterpillar species take advantage by feeding off of the leaves, as do scarlet plant bugs, the net-veined beetles, and leaf-footed bugs, while chickens are responsible for devouring the seeds.

This plant can be identified from others by the winged leaflets it grows on its stem, along with the hair on that and the leaves. Watering is about a moderate requirement and should be placed somewhere where there is a lot of sun. It can also be freshly cut and added to a fantastic bouquet. When planting, place each one about 8 to 24 inches apart. These will reoccur each year due to them being of the perennial type. You will need to reproduce using the stratification method, but it also may not be necessary in some cases. Plant the seeds that have not been treated by cold-moist or dry stratification and you will want to collect the seeds in the month of October. To accurately estimate your amount of seeds, about 200 seeds will cover a 30 square foot area.The Tennessee Nursery has an outstanding amount of plants, trees, shrubs, and wetlands supplies on hand. Also visit our wetlands site to get every thing of the native kind.

The Doze Daisy

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Aphanostephus

The Aphanostephus is also commonly called the Arkansas Dozedaisy, and the  Riddell Lazy Daisy. It belongs to the asteraceae family, which is the sunflower and is considered to be a perennial native. Close relations to this species are  the astranthium, brachyscominae, and the townsendia due to the their highly similar features of morphing. It relates mostly to the warm weather and requires about a fair amount of water in order for its survival. It is tolerably drought resistant. Modest amounts of sunlight are highly recommended for this type of perennial, with sandy like soil being its best option for raising. They are quite commonly found in parts of southern American and even Mexico due to their types of soil environments.

Numerous amounts people convey the image of this plant in being similar to the oxford daisy due to its similar agnate characteristics. Those having to do with its obscure crown, which happens to be what the connotation of the name means in Greek terms. It is rather tall and straight, with the capacity of growing up to 20 inches or more. The white flower it procures contains a yellow center that is 1 to 2 inches in width and blooms during the early to late spring season in the months of March to June. In some areas, the bloom time ranges from February to December. These flowers range from being very petite to quite ample in size at 1 to 4 inches long and less than 1 inch in width. The white part of this flower is actually referred to as ray flowers and contains anywhere from 20 to 40 of these so-called leaflets. There is also usually one flower per plant. With drawn out leaves, which tend to be very lean and hairy in appearance, they make the look of this particular plant quite exquisite. This species of plant happens to be of mere importance to the white tailed deer in southern most parts of Texas. This also is the only type of perennial growing in Texas.

There are innumerable dispositions that add to the grace of this perennial. The most alluring fact being that they are confined in the a.m. capturing their morningtide calm, and when the time changes its course to the middlemost art of the day they allure many by unbarring themselves awake. Its native nook are in peaceful meadows, cast aside prairies, barren pastures, and spacious plains. An extravagant component this plant endeavors is that it has the endowment of infiltrating amongst others seed varieties. Even though they happen to be a seed flower, most of the time they have difficulty irrigating themselves, so Help is sometimes is required from the tender to produce a more abundant amount.

At the Tennessee Nursery you can find this exceptional flower amongst our long list of many other perennials, shrubs and trees. We also sell native plants such as various types of grasses, shrubs, and trees as well at our Wetlands website. We offer all of this and many, many more at low wholesale prices!

October 8, 2009

Sweet William – Bringing Back Pink

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If you stand in a field of Sweet William, these
delicate little flowers may bring Valentine’s Day to mind, with their
brilliantly shaded red, white, pink and duo-colored petals of the same
shades. If you know that pink is the new black and you want to bring a
little style to your garden, but still preserve that classic,
sophisticated look you strived so hard to create, there’s no better
flower for you.

These beautiful flowers are so beloved and so popular that the debate
still rages (and gets quite heated) over who the flowers were actually
named for. Was it William the Conqueror, Saint William of York or
Prince William Augustus, the Duke of Cumberland? With the incredible,
vivid colors and visions of life the flowers bring to your garden, does
it really matter who they’re named for or why?

All Sweet William plants grow from seeds and you typically will not
purchase these plants as seedlings or as established plants. You’ll
most likely plant the seeds right into your outdoor flower garden,
though you can plant them indoors and then move the seedlings outside
once you are ready and comfortable. You should also hold off on
planting seeds or seedlings until the last frost has passed in your
area. These small plants don’t mind crowding but you should plant them
about six inches apart so they have at least a little bit of room to
grow.

Sweet William plants love full and direct sunlight and will grow best
in soil that drains well and is rich in nutrients. The flowers will not
do well in soil that is tightly packed and dry, so you should try to
make sure the soil is loose and somewhat moist. But remember, don’t
over water or have drowned soil or your plants may die. Also, don’t
forget to keep the weeds out, since weeds can overcrowd and choke your
beautiful little flowers.

The most common problems you will face with these little flowers are
nematodes and fungus—remember; insects love that pink is back too! The
best thing you can do for your little plants is to treat them early on
with both insecticides and fungicides to prevent any diseases or insect
swarms from destroying your flower bed.

This particular plant is also extremely attractive to butterflies, bees
and birds, so you can count on it bringing a whole new life to your
garden.

While Sweet William is fragrant and beautiful, the plant also holds
some hidden dangers. It is advisable to wear gardening gloves whenever
you handle this plant to avoid skin irritation or an allergic reaction
due to its more toxic properties. Also, it is important that you not
ingest this plant, its roots or its flowers as many parts of the plant
are poisonous to people.

Overall, Sweet William is a beautiful, easy to manage plant that will
make your garden colorful and sophisticated, as well as making it the
ultimate hangout for people, plants and wildlife.

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October 2, 2009

Achieve Landscpaing Zen With Hearty Native Ferns

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The fern family, Polypodiaceae, is a very hearty and varied family of vegetation that come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes. Hearty ferns that are native to America are excellent to use in landscaping as they improve the landscape immensely and are, as their name suggests, very hearty.

The following ferns are native to America:

Autumn Fern
Brilliant Autumn Fern
Christmas Fern
Cinnamon Fern
Evergreen Wood Fern
Hay-Scented Fern
Lady Fern
Red-Stemmed Lady Fern
Log Fern
Northern Maidenhair Fern
Ostrich Fern, and
Royal Fern

The beauty of the native fern is that it requires little maintenance and adds a natural glow to your garden that balances out any non-native plants that you might like growing. The fern is a non-flowering plant that actually reproduces by releasing spores and not seeds. The fern has been around since before the rise of dinosaurs, making them an ancient and primal addition your garden – this is one tough plant if it wasn’t phased by whatever killed the dinosaurs! Spores are tiny microscopic little reproductive cells on the back of the leaf structure (which is called the frond).

Native ferns are also good because they are very drought tolerant, despite loving wet, moist environments. They also have colorful foliage and create lovely woodland settings. They range in size from 12 inch to 6 foot  and have both fine and bold textures. They are very useful in cut arrangements of flowers, acting to balance out the numerous shapes and colors with natural earthy goodness.

If your garden or landscaping spot has a cool shade as a basis then the hearty fern will provide a rich tapestry of colors to it. It is generally accepted that no garden setting can soothe the mind and refresh the body like a nice ferny glade. Just keep in mind that whether they are evergreen or deciduous (meaning that they die out until spring), whether used in large clumps or in combination with perennial plants – the basic tenet is that THEY LOVE SHADE!

In heavy shade it is difficult to find blooming plants so the unusual texture and interesting colors that ferns give provide an immense boost to the look of places that have really heavy shade. A rich tapestry of various greens can be made by combining light and dark green ferns of all hues in a paragon of artistic loveliness that can outdo any painting and out last any building. Human buildings have been around for maybe a few thousand years whereas the native hearty fern as been growing and thriving for untold millenia.

Go to your favorite wholesale nursery to see excellent examples of ferns being used to great effect in landscaping. If your local wholesale nursery does not have a wide selection of ferns then it really is not worth the trip to go there. Rather find a good wholesale nursery that has a wide collection and the expertise to help you with any landscaping you might require. Also make sure that they have a full stock of native ferns as these are more hearty and easier to maintain than the non-native variety.

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