Pumpkin Fest Success

Despite the rain we were so happy so many of you stopped by for our very fist Pumpkin Fest. Pumpkin painting and face painting were a big hit.

Everyone raved about "Doc" our tarot card reader, and we will definitely be having him back again next year.

We had some amazing entries for the squash-based baking contest, but the winner of the $100 gift certificate was a ginger pumpkin pie (made from fresh pumpkins!) entered by Cheryl Alloway.

Yay Cheryl!

Deb Martin performed live music and the scary tale of The Brave Woman and the Flying Head, kept the audience on the edges of their seats. Although she later lightened the mood with a rendition of I'm Being Eaten By a Boa Constrictor.

Thank you to everybody who made the day a success and so much fun.

Four Days 'til Pumpkin Fest

Only four days until Pumpkin Fest!
This is just a peek at our pumpkin displays.

Join us on Saturday for the food and festivities from 10 am to 4 pm.

Deb Martin will be performing from 12:30 to 2:30 with live music and storytelling.

We are featuring a tarot card reader and a face painter.

All of our decorated pumpkins will be for sale.
And all of our plants will be 50% off.

See you there!

Five days 'til Pumpkin Fest

Only five days left until Pumpkin Fest at Victoria Gardens!

Enter the baking contest for a chance to win a $100 gift certificate!

Annick Magac Wind Sculpture at Victoria Gardens

Winter Rye Cover Crop for Your Vegetable Garden

Sowing a winter annual crop following the harvest of summer annual vegetables has long been recognized for its importance in conserving soil and water and maintaining or increasing soil organic matter levels. Winter Rye is regarded as one of the most suited small grains for winter cover crop use because of its wide adaptability, tolerance to extreme winter temperatures, and ease of establishment.

We highly recommended rye, because of its superior winter hardiness and the production of relatively large amounts of persistent mulch, as a cover crop for home vegetable gardens.

We have Winter Rye in stock as well as "Fall Magic" Grass seed for an autumn lawn reseeding
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30% Off Hedges

Look at the fall color on this hardy orange! It is so amazing. These shrubs bloom with white flowers in late winter/ early spring, and their branches stay a bright green color even after they lose their leaves. They would make an incredible hedge.

Actually we have a lot of great hedge plants still in the nursery: clumping bamboo, Holly, fantail willows, Beauty Bush, Deutzia 'Chardonnay Pearls', Spirea, Viburnum, little river birch, forsythia, rose of Sharon, lilacs, Andromeda, PJM Rh...odies, Rosa Rugosa, yellow button bushes, Clethera 'Pink Spires', dappled willows, 'Pink Diamond' hydrangeas, Thujas, and Washington Hawthorns.

So we're putting all this hedging material on sale. Everything on the list is 20% off!
If you buy 6 shrubs, they're 30% off.

Terrariums Step by Step

Start with an attractive glass container.


Pick plants that like high humidity.


Pour charcoal into the bottom of your container.


Charcoal acts as a filter,


and keeps your terrarium from smelling "boggy."


Add potting mix.


Plant your selected plants into the mix.


Firm them in.


Victoria likes to use a group of three different plants.


Use moss to cover the exposed mix.


The moss makes the terrarium polished.


Lush and lovely.


Your terrarium will need very little maintenance.


When the very top of the soil mix starts to look dry, a few squirts from a spay bottle should keep your terrarium moist.