Well our new House of Horrors website is up and running! To check it out go to www.pottershouseofhorrors.com !

Here’s an excellent site if you want to look up a plant… http://plants.usda.gov/ . It’s the USDA plant database. Most plants have been listed on the site and it gives decent info about them. Check it out!

We now carry Tuscan Farm Gardens Soap!  Tuscan Farm Gardens is an organic family farm in Langley, British Columbia, in the heart of the Fraser Valley. Their skin care products are plant-based and made in Canada.  Potter’s features some of the popular soaps and lotions they have to offer.  Olive Oil and Echinacea soap bars, [...]

I heard a really good suggestion lately that you should give your garden one last heavy weeding before winter comes. If you do this, you’ll notice there’s considerably less weeds popping up in spring and it’ll save you a lot of work. I like this idea.. however, I hate weeding so I’m just going to [...]

Tete-a-tete in French means “oblong hotdog”.. just kidding! It means “head-to-head” and that’s what you get when you plant tete-a-tete daffodil bulbs… loads of bright yellow heads packed next to each other in planters or in the ground. T&T’s (as we call them) give you great spring colour and come back by themselves every year. [...]

For most of the year Schizostylis (Kaffir Lily) sits as an inconspicuous clump of iris-like foliage. It’s not until September that it starts to show off its shiny crimson flowers. The Kaffir Lily needs rich moist soil thus making it the perfect choice for a marginal plant around a water feature. With the right conditions it will bloom right [...]

Are you a pansy person or a viola person? Or maybe you’re both? Some people love the nice big heads and vivid colours of pansies while others tend to go for the dainty little violas. In my opinion they both look great in planters in any season and if you get some right now they’ll both flower [...]

It’s been a beautiful September so far and we’re hoping for more great weather!… knock on wood. The site I always go to for up-to-the-minute weather updates is this one here http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/forecast/canada/index_e.html?id=BC

Fall is a great time of year to plant cedar hedging… the cooler temperatures make for better planting weather than the heat of summer. Right now at Potter’s we have 1 gallon cedar hedging and they’re going out the door pretty fast… so if you want a nice lush green hedge, get in to the Potter’s nearest you and [...]

I’m still getting a lot of people coming in with damaged leaves from slugs n snails.. apparently they’re still hungry! A good way to get rid of the slimy little buggers is the old stand-by, Cory’s Slug n Snail Bait. But in this day and age where we’re doing our best to move away from pesticides, an [...]