Burning bush is starting to change colour nowadays!  They are green all summer long and as soon as the days get shorter, the leaves change to bright orange/red.  They look like they are burning!  I’ve have a few people asking me what these lovely bushes are.  The latin name is Euonymus Alatus. I highly suggest [...]

Potters has lots of bulbs for spring blooms!  Lots of new varieties!  Come on down and see what you can plant for spring.

We still have a great selection of spring bulbs that are ready to be planted. Tulips, crocus , daffodils , allium and more .Whatever your preference we have them all.  

It’s time for grasses!  We have a fresh selection in rigght now.  Lots of these babies have their ‘flowers’ (aka plumes) on them and they look great with any fall colours. Perennial grasses ready to plant.

Here are a few pictures from the greenhouse.  It’s time to freshen up your planters!  See you soon.

Pansy fibre packs are here at all the Potter’s stores, and you know what that means… the pansy onslaught begins! Throughout September and October Potter’s sells almost every colour imaginable of pansy and boy, are they popular. Some people only like the traditional yellow pansies but most like to get a mix of colours. Come [...]

So you planted these awesome, gorgeous, fabulous perennials…. and now they are 5 feet tall and want to fall over!  Don’t let them!  Enjoy the fruits of your labour right into the fall.  Time to stake up your plants! We have lots of bamboo stakes, wooden stakes and plastic stakes.

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 [...]

Wow, just looking around the greenhouse there’s still some great fresh and colourful items in stock. We have mums, aster, pansies, chinese lanterns, plenty of fall grasses, fresh herbs… fall is a great time of year at Potter’s!

Many people don’t realize the number of different grasses that are available at this time of year. There’s tall ones like Miscanthus (maiden hair grass) with beautiful corn-like plumes at the top. There’s shorter ones such as varieties of Pennisetum (fountain grass) that get a bottle-brush inflorescence at the ends. There’s also delightful blue clumps [...]