GARDEN & HOME Growing and Maintaining Your Chrysanthemums From Our Garden To Yours, Expect Success With Stutzmans Mums are also our September plant of the month!  Garden mums provide a tremendous splash of fall color. The name “chrysanthemum” is derived from the Greek chrysos (gold) and anthos (flower). Flower color ranges from pure, clear yellows to gold, orange, bronze, deep red and maroon. White, pink, violet and purple flowers are also...

GARDEN & HOME The Beauty of Asters From Our Garden To Yours, Expect Success With Stutzmans You can find an aster for almost any garden and they have many uses, such as in borders, rock gardens, or wildflower gardens. Asters are daisy-like perennials with starry-shaped flower heads. They bring a delightful purple color to the garden in late summer and autumn when many of your other summer blooms may be fading. The plant’s height ranges from...

Baking Soda Uses in the Garden 1. Houseplant Cleaner It is important to regularly clean the foliage of your houseplants to remove dust and grease, to promote photosynthesis. For this, our recommendation for you is to carefully move a soft, lint-free cloth moistened with the solution of water and sodium bicarbonate (a pinch of baking soda in one liter of water) on the surface of leaves (top and bottom). 2. Clean Garden Furniture Add 1/2 cup...

PLANT GEEKS VACATION Seymour & Audrey Stink at Selby Jason French, Greenhouse Manager 8 August 2016 When a plant geek goes on vacation, he doesn’t really stop working. I recently took a vacation to southern Florida. When I heard a rare corpse flower was about to bloom in Sarasota I had to drag the family to the Selby botanical gardens. The corpse flower is the largest flower on earth. It was nearly seven feet...

PLANT GEEKS VACATION The Chocolate Tree Jason French, Greenhouse Manager 8 August 2016 As the plant geek continued on through the Selby Botanical gardens many unusual plants were revealed. Here I have attached photos of the cacao tree.  The fruit pods you see actually contain cocoa beans, from which chocolate is made. This plant is usually only seen in South and Central America and the west coast of Africa. This was a first for me! The other...