Sweet Charlie Strawberry Plants are Tasty June Bearing Strawberry Variety

Just as the name implies, the Sweet Charlie Strawberry berries tastes like they have sugar on them fresh from the field. Sweet Charlie Strawberry plants are vigorous, disease-resistant, and produce large firm berry fruit.

Plants are medium in size making for an easy harvest. The Sweet Charlie Strawberry plant is an early season, June bearing strawberry variety. Zones 4 - 8. June bearing strawberries produce a single crop each year during a 2 - 3 week period.

TIP: If you get blooms the first year while the plant is getting established pinch the blooms off to ensure a large fruit crop the next year.

We hope you enjoy our article tips for using strawberries.

Growing Strawberry Plants

Vinca Minor - Easy to Grow - Shade Ground Cover Plants

 Vinca minor, Trailing Periwinkle, Creeping Periwinkle or Creeping Myrtle groundcover plants, are a fast growing excellent evergreen ground cover for full sun shade and semi-shaded areas. Ground cover vinca minor produces dark green oval-shaped foliage and conspicuous blue flowers in early Spring. Combines with Pachysandra. Vinca minor vines grow low to the ground.

Trailing periwinkle is adaptable to most any soil, but prefers fairly good soil. Vinca minor is easier to control than many other creeping groundcover plants. Vinca is a shade loving evergreen ground cover plant. Plant in shade or full sun.

For larger landscape jobs, plant our money saving bare root vinca vines. Our bare root vinca ground cover plants are professionally packaged with just the right amount of moisture to insure fresh delivery. (Plants are 6 to 8 leads for quick coverage).

Vinca is easy to plant and easy to grow!

Small Growing Blue River Lavender Plants Perfect for Growign in Containers

Plant the small growing Blue River Lavender Plant in all sunny areas of your garden. The Blue River Lavender plants are comfortable growing in containers, in garden borders and filling in nook and cranny areas. The deep purple fragrant blooms of the Blue River Lavender stand strong from mid summer to early fall.

As with other lavender plants, the Lavandula angustifolia 'Blue River' is deer resistant, rabbit resistant and attracts bees, butterflies and hummingbirds. With its low water requirements, the Blue River Lavender is an excellent choice for growing in pots. 

Mojito Mint Makes the Best Authentic Cuban Mojito Cocktail Drinks

Prepare for summer entertaining with a selection of mint plants, including the Mojito Mint Plant for making authentic Mojito Cocktails.

If you haven’t tried a Mojito Mint Cocktail, you’re missing out. It is a sweet, fruity alcoholic drink that is very pleasing to the taste buds. Although easy to make, it’s a great way to impress your guests.

This mild flavored mint livens up fruit and grain salads, teas, fruit desserts and makes a wonderfully fragrant garnish for drinks, salads and desserts.

"Each year we add new herb plants and this spring our favorite is the Mojito Mint Plant", notes Greenwood Nursery owner, Cheryl Jones, "Since it really needs to be grown in a container, the Mojito Mint plant is perfect for balcony and patio gardens in part to full sun!"

Visit https://greenwoodnursery.com/mojito-mint to get started our video of How to Make an Authentic Mojito Mint Drink and purchase your plants.

 

How to Grow a Rose of Sharon Shrub Hedge

Growing a Rose of Sharon hedge in Your Garden is an excellent way of creating a private garden area during the summer season. Changing the appearance of your garden can be easily done. Regardless of the size of your garden, you don’t have to spend more time, money, and effort in improving its appearance. With your knowledge about Rose of Sharon shrubs, your problem can be easily solved.

Like other homeowners, you shouldn’t miss to ignore the benefits of Rose of Sharon bushes. These are the common names of the different species of flowering plants, hardy hibiscus, hibiscus syriacus, and althea. They are one of the few shrubs that bloom in the summer garden.  Compared to others, they are low maintenance and the Rose of Sharon shrubs can grow upward to 12 feet.  Therefore, if you want the shrub to appear as a tree, just prune away the lower branches in early spring. 

One of our favorite things about Rose of Sharon bushes is their appearances. Their flowers have beautifully distinct colors such as blue, red, pink, white, and purple.  Most of these bushes also grow from 8 to 12 feet tall and roughly six to ten feet wide though some varieties have a more columnar shape.  Hardy Hibiscus plants show good pollution tolerance which makes them a good choice for urban gardens. 

Tips on growing Rose of Sharon hedges in your garden:

• Pick Your Planting Site – Rose of Sharon grows in full sun areas. They also grow well in a part sun or part shade areas though blooming may be limited. 
•  Prepare the Planting Site – You can do this through digging the hole approximately 4 to 6 inches deeper than the root system and about a foot wide. If you have clay soil, mix into the fill dirt aged compost or aged manure mix and some coarse sand for drainage.
• Put the Rose of Sharon Shrubs in the Planting Hole – Do this step carefully, fill holes and water. You may need to add more soil around the plant and water it again if it settles too deeply.
• Fertilizers – Fertilize can be applied in spring after the plant begins to leaf out. A balanced timed release is best. If using aged compost and aged manure mixes as mulch regularly, there should be no need for a fertilizer application.

With Rose of Sharon, you can easily change the appearance of your garden. Since these shrubs and flowers are easy to grow and maintain, you don’t have to monitor them regularly. 

Greenwood Nursery offers a great selection of affordable Rose of Sharon plants. With their low prices and helpful customer service, it is easy for you to improve your garden.

Rose of Sharon Flowering Shrubs Make Great Privacy Hedges

For summer blooming, plant a Rose of Sharon shrub hedge. Hardy in zones 5 through 9, Hibiscus syriacus shrubs perform at their best as full sun shrubs and planted in well drained soil. These flowering shrubs provide long lasting blooms from mid summer to frost. Though they will grow in partially sunny to lightly shaded areas, their blooming may be limited. Rose of Sharon or hibiscus syriacus, which is a deciduous shrub also known as Hardy Hibiscus and Althea.

Although Rose of Sharon bushes will lose their leaves in winter, they still make beautiful flowering privacy hedges in areas for summer use such as planting around swimming pools. Their unusually large blooms attract hummingbirds, butterflies, and bees from mid summer until frost. As these hibiscus bloom much later than most other plants, they are, also, later to leaf out. Expect rose of sharon to leaf out in late spring to early summer.

Dwarf Pampas Grass Works in Even Small Gardens

Greenwood Nursery announces the addition of Dwarf Pampas Grass. This beautiful pampas matures at 5 to 6 feet tall with a spread of 3 to 4 feet wide, making it an excellent choice garden plant for small gardens. Pair your Dwarf Pampas Grass with Yucca plant varieties for an attractive desert plant or Mediterranean garden. Wind and drought tolerant. 

Add color and texture to your garden setting with our Dwarf Pampas Grass. Safe for planting near swimming pools.