Suggestions for winterizing hardy bananas: Pile leaf mulch around the base and put a layer of mushroom manure on top to keep the leaf mulch down. This helps fertilize and hold water in the spring. Depending on the stalk height, after the first real frost, break leaves down around the stalk and a place plastic garbage bag [...]
Potters 192 is ready for fall! I know it sounds too soon, but we have winter pansies, mums, kale and heuchera to spice up your fall planters. We also just got in a nice big order of indoor tropical plants. Some nice leafy plants to brighten up a dull room, or some gorgeous flowering gift [...]
The Pink Lemonade Blueberry (Vaccinium ‘Pink Lemonade’) is a new introduction from Briggs Nursery (located in Elma, Washington) and will be available for the retail market in 2010. This exciting new variety is hardy to Zone 4. Growing requirements demand an acidic soil pH (4.5 – 5.5), high light levels, well-drained soil rich in organic [...]
Fall is just around the corner and most of you gardeners already know that Potter’s Garden Centre is loaded with fall colours through August, September and October. You’ll find rust-coloured mums, yellow pansies, red-tipped grasses and much, much more. I love the fall season because of these wonderful fall colours. I also like the fall because it’s bulb-planning time… [...]
This year was particularly bad for mistagged plants from our suppliers… most likely due to how busy everyone was. Most of the time the mistakes were quite obvious, although sometimes it wasn’t apparent until the plants flowered and we were able to spot the problem. One mistake that was quite a surprise was the one pictured [...]
POTTERY ALERT! There’s still loads of nice pottery left at the 152nd store! Big pots, small pots and everything in between, there’s something for everybody. Lots of colours, lots of styles and, best of all, 50% OFF!!
Potters 192 has been cleaning house! We have lots of great items that have been marked down 50% off on our big sale tables outside the front of the store. Lots of giftware items from inside the store that never go 50% off are now just that! Everyone has been out there picking up some [...]
Euphorbia’s have been a favorite perennial of mine for years. I love their early bloom and tight semi-evergreen habit. They can be used in a wide range of applications from part sun to full sun and can tolerated drought when established. If I was to nail down my favorite I would have to say it [...]
Can you believe it’s mum ‘n pansy season already? Where has the time gone? I’m pretty jazzed about the upcoming fall because I LOVE fall colours.. oranges, yellows, reds and rusty hues abound. Mums are great plants because they give you such a long run of colour.. and to top it all off they’re perennials! [...]
Potters had 2 floats in the White Rock Sea Festival torchlight parade on Saturday August 1st. Potters 192 had Santa Claus come all the way down from the North Pole to sit on our sleigh in the parade. (and boy was he hot!) The kids and even the adults were very surprised to see him! [...]
