If you’re a born n’ raised BC boy like me, you probably enjoy getting outdoors and camping in the summer. The lakes, the trails, the animals, the campfire, the burnt hotdogs… it’s all pretty magical. If you’re anything like me, you enjoy looking at our native flora while out in the wild. I’m always impressed [...]

Boy, if you’re a perennial fan, mid to late summer is your shopping season! Perennials really shine in the summer months and you can find so many plants in full flower right now. There’s also lots of deals to be found, which is great. Look for perennials such as black-eyed susan, crocosmia, lavender and many [...]

Good news for those bulb-a-holics out there, I just talked to our local bulb supplier and bulbs are on their way in a couple of weeks!! Tulip bulbs, daff bulbs, alliums, fritillarias, irises… Potter’s will be bulb central soon enough! By mid to late August, all our Potter’s stores will have good selection on all [...]

If your garden is synonymous with the word “struggle”, maybe you don’t have the right tools to tackle the task. All our Potter’s stores carry excellent supplies of garden tools from loppers to shears to hoes to pruners. Having the right tool for the job is imperative and your friendly Potter’s staff can recommend what [...]

For those looking for bargains on beautiful trees and shrubs, look no further than Potter’s. We’ve got loads of fantastic-looking roses, cedar hedging, spirea, potentilla, rhodos, evergeens, etc, etc. All of our stock is looking Grade A perfect and if you can believe it it’s all 30% off right now! Come see what we have [...]

Gardener’s in BC can sometimes be a funny crew! So many of us seem to have it in our heads that the only gardening season in the lower mainland is springtime when that’s just not the case! BC has the longest gardening season in all of Canada and there’s wonderful flower colour available all summer [...]

Many of you know that our 72nd Potter’s location switches gears in the fall from a full-swinging garden centre to an ultra-creepy haunted house. And, if you can believe it, many of the employees are already excitedly chattering about this year’s House of Horrors. Ideas are being tossed around and plans are being made to [...]

Potter’s is gaining quite the reputation as the spot to go for big pots. We bring in a lot of pottery from Asia and there’s usually some really nice large pots in those shipping containers. There’s a number of styles and colours to choose from but be forewarned… big pots are HEAVY! That definitely is [...]

For those who love the rustic country look of a wooden planter full of flowers, all the Potter’s locations have good supplies of half wine barrels. There’s nothing quite like the look and feel of a wooden oak barrel and customers have been enjoying these planters for years. Probably the greatest thing about half barrels [...]

The 72nd store has been getting nice loads of indoor tropicals and the customers really seem to like them. There’s scheffleras, palms, cycads, ficuses, dracaenas, dieffenbachias and a whole lot more. Some need high light, some need low light but most are pretty happy somewhere in between. If you have some bare spots in your [...]