Winter has arrived in Southern Indiana and we have stopped shipping trees and shrubs until early Spring.
All orders placed after 11/18/11 will be shipped in early March, 2012. All orders will be processed and held until our spring shipping begins. Thanks for your interest. Pat
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Catmint Nepeta Catmint is one of those amazing plants that thrive on neglect. Catmint is an extremely easy to grow plant with few pests or problems. The billowing foliage is topped with spikes of flowers in early summer with repeat blooms throughout the season. Catmint is very attractive to cats, both as a living plant and dried. This lavender-blue variety is often used as a substitute for lavender plants, where lavender is not particularly hardy. Catmint has slightly aromatic grey-green foliage that has a delicate, lacy appearance. The flowers are lavender-blue, and bloom on long spikes. The plants have a somewhat sprawling growth habit, making it a nice plant for edges and along paths. Catmint is a classic under planting for roses. The colors complement and the foliage hides the ugly ‘knees’ of the rose bush. It is also a wonderful plant for edging, for spilling over walls and walkways and for softening spiky plants like iris and yucca. The pastel blues combine wonderfully well with pinks and yellows, such as daylilies and yarrow. These plants are currently growing in 4” pots in our greenhouse. They will be shipped with moist material wrapped around their roots.
Price: 2 for $9.50
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Fun Plant FactsAn African bugleweed synthesises in its tissues a substance similar to the hormone that controls the development of caterpillars. If a caterpillar is persuaded, experimentally, to ingest that substance, then when it turns into a butterfly it will develop two heads and die. -David Attenborough, The Private Life of Plants, p70 84% of a raw apple and 96% of a raw cucumber is water. A notch in a tree will remain the same distance from the ground as the tree grows. A pineapple is a berry. Arrowroot, an antidote for poisoned arrows, is used as a thickener in cooking (so if you ever get shot with a poison arrow, do not go to a doctor, look in your kitchen cabinet. Avocados have the highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per hundred grams. Both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew cannabis sativa (marijuana) on their plantations. In the Netherlands, in 1634, a collector paid 1,000 pounds of cheese, four oxen, eight pigs, 12 sheep, a bed, and a suit of clothes for a single bulb of the Viceroy tulip. No species of wild plant produces a flower or blossom that is absolutely black, and so far, none has been developed artificially. Peanuts are beans. Quinine, one of the most important drugs known to man, is obtained from the dried bark of an evergreen tree native to South America. The California redwood - coast redwood and giant sequoia - are the tallest and largest living organism in the world. The largest single flower is the Rafflesia or "corpse flower". They are generally 3 feet in diameter with the record being 42 inches. The oldest living thing in existence is not a giant redwood, but a bristlecone pine in the White Mountains of California, dated to be aged 4,600 years old. The rose family of plants, in addition to flowers, gives us apples, pears, plums, cherries, almonds, peaches and apricots. Asparagus is a member of the lily family, which also includes onions, leeks, and garlic. The bright orange color of carrots tell you they are an excellent source of Vitamin A which is important for good eyesight, especially at night. Vitamin A helps your body fight infection, and keeps your skin and hair healthy. Onions contain a mild antibiotic that fights infections, soothes burns, tames bee stings and relieves the itch of athletes foot. One bushel of corn will sweeten more than 400 cans of pop. These facts are gathered from the internet and may or may not be true. |
