Behind the Scenes

MUMS: WEEK THREE

By Paul Larson|2015-07-06T18:39:34+00:00July 6th, 2015|Categories: Behind the Scenes|Tags: behind the scenes, drip system, fertilizer, mums, photography, progress, spaghetti tube, sprucedale gardens, week|

Our baby mums have doubled in size! The little "spaghetti tubes" you see here provide them with a mixture of fertilizer and water. Our first mums will blooming in late August.

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PAUL’S BEES 6.22.15

By Paul Larson|2015-06-22T16:53:44+00:00June 22nd, 2015|Categories: Behind the Scenes|Tags: bees, behind the scenes, Fresh, hive, honey, local, paul, sprucedale gardens, tease, video|

I followed Paul as he went to check on his honeybees this morning. Like Sprucedale Gardens on Facebook to see him in action! A video will be coming soon!

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MUMS: WEEK ONE

By Paul Larson|2015-06-22T16:32:09+00:00June 22nd, 2015|Categories: Behind the Scenes|Tags: beautiful, behind the scenes, exciting, gardening, grow, mums, nursery, photography, planting, plants, progress, sprucedale gardens, summer, time of year|

It's that time of year again! We've planted well over 1,000 mums earlier this week and will now be impatiently awaiting their progress. Soon they'll be boasting beautiful flowers, brilliant colors and will be spilling from these containers. But for now, these newly planted mums are just a tiny patch of green. Make sure to check [...]

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A NOTE FROM JOYCE

By Paul Larson|2014-11-06T14:46:49+00:00November 6th, 2014|Categories: Behind the Scenes|Tags: beautiful, cherry sparkler, crazytunia, dixieland, fall, flowers, fun, geranium, gerbera garvinea, greenhouse, joyce, marvel beauty cranberry, musings, nursery, owner, pennistum, petunia, photography, plants, season, shopping, spring, winter|

"One of the things I like best about this time of year is looking at the new varieties of plants that are available for next year. I decide which ones I'm going to order, and I Feel like a kid in a candy store! I can't grow them all, so I decide which ones are the [...]

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END OF THE SEASON ACTIVITIES

By Paul Larson|2014-10-31T13:47:21+00:00October 31st, 2014|Categories: Behind the Scenes|Tags: behind the scenes, exclusive, fall, greenhouse, nursery, pack, plants, poly blanket, potting, process, prune, roots, season, sprucedale gardens, steps, trees, winter|

Late fall and winter don't seem like a busy time for a nursery like Sprucedale Gardens. But in reality, a LOT needs to be done to get ready for the next season! STEP ONE: RE-POTTING The plants are put into larger pots so the roots can continue to grow. David said, "It takes a few weeks [...]

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OUR SUGAR MAPLE

By Paul Larson|2014-10-17T14:47:19+00:00October 17th, 2014|Categories: Behind the Scenes|Tags: 20 years, beautiful, before and after, fall, morning, orange, photography, pretty, red, sale, sprucedale gardens, sugar maples, throwback, trees|

There are Sugar Maples available to purchase at Sprucedale Gardens right now! While it's hard to imagine what most plants - especially trees - will look like a few months, years, decades from now, there's no way to miss how these Sugar Maples will turn out! Right across from these cute little Sugar Maples is this: [...]

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FALL ACTIVITY: DIVIDING DAYLILIES

By Paul Larson|2014-09-12T14:54:04+00:00September 12th, 2014|Categories: Advice/How-To, Behind the Scenes|Tags: advice, daylilies, dividing, fall, farming, flower, gardening, plant, pot bound, sprucedale gardens|

Here's Kathy dividing Daylilies! The beginning of Fall is one of the times of year where certain plants become "pot bound," or overgrow their original pot. To keep them healthy and avoid drying up, we step these plants up to a bigger pot!

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