Tag: Christmas

By Ken Lain, the mountain gardener My girls arrived home from college this week and the next day our family took the annual trek to the garden center in search of this years Christmas tree.  This is a special time…

By Ken Lain, the mountain gardener This has been a crazy week for garden center owners and their suppliers.  It’s the annual mad rush to harvest, ship, unload, set up, and show off tractor trailer – loads of plants for…

by Ken Lain, the mountain gardener Gardeners are some of the “tough customers” on our seasonal gift lists; it’s hard to know what they’d like.  Here are a couple of suggestions: Wildflower seeds for the gardener in your life will…

by Ken Lain, the mountain gardener My achey-breaky-back!  Everything holiday-ish arrived this week: cut Christmas trees, poinsettias, landscape evergreens, even miniature fairy gardens arrived at the garden center, and my back is feeling it. (I may be exaggerating he amount…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROh22NHS7-U Our Garden Center Holiday Shop is Open for the Season. Come in to select a gift for your favorite gardener. New for this season is our popular Miniature Garden. These little figures and accessories are sure to be a…

The day after our girls arrived home from college we all made the annual trek to the garden center to select our family Christmas tree. Setting up and decorating the tree is a special time at the Lain house. As…

Using living trees over fresh-cut trees to decorate the holidays has increased in popularity. A quarter of my local Christmas tree sales are for living trees that will be planted in January. Because of their waxy needles and high internal…

The festive plants of the holiday season are yearly highlights for this gardener. These specimen plants are found simultaneously on the market only during this window between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Although as a gardener it seems like sacrilege to cut…

Well, here we are wrapping up another year of local gardening advice. I like to think of my readers as good friends and neighbors, just hanging out talking over the back yard fence. At least that is how the writer’s…