Peacock feathers, fresh juniper greens (covered in juniper berries), and blue beads make this custom wreath the perfect decoration from now until New Year's.
They are galvanized actually, but either way these metal birds in flight make fantastic ornaments for your tree.
From now until Christmas Victoria Gardens will have a stunning array of custom, handmade wreaths.
Victoria Gardens is featuring the work of local artist Meg Oliver for the holidays. All of Miss Oliver's ceramic pieces are hand thrown, hand cut and glazed. These porcelain pieces (votive candle holder, mug, and bowls) are particularly beautiful when light shines through the translucent cut outs, which then look like stained glass.
These adorable silver and white penguins will brighten any winter table scape or mantle.
From everyone at Victoria Gardens: We would like to thank all of you for making this another great season. We value all of our clients and customers, and we wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving!
Elegant and modern these white porcelain ornaments come in five different styles and sizes. Great Christmas ornaments and keepsakes.
Here are some of the white porcelain feather ornaments (pictured above) pre-wrapped for only $8.
We are unpacking new Christmas ornaments, preparing for our Holiday Open House, which is this weekend, the Saturday and Sunday after Thanksgiving, and these little woodland critter ornaments are just adorable. They are going fast, so come in and get some of your shopping done early!
We are lucky enough to have the work of many local artists for the Holiday season, including these hand-crafted acorn ornaments.
Victoria Gardens is proud to announce it will be collecting unwrapped toys for “Comittment to Kids.” 
Be on the look out for great holiday gifts for the bird lover in your life. We have these fantastic birch bark bird ornaments that just arrived today!
Many of our wonderful holiday gift items can stay out well after the holidays are over. Pine cone and twig candles can add a rustic touch to any table. White ceramic-lace edged cake plates can be used year round. Three-tiered black wire serving stand can hold crudités at Thanksgiving, cookies at Christmas, and hors d'oeuvres on New Years Eve.
Locally hand knit socks and hats are the perfect gifts for that special someone once the weather outside is frightful!
These stunning wooden ornaments can be purchased individually or as a set. Sold as singles they are only $1.60!
We are in love right now with this new filament garland. It almost looks like metal lace, delicate in appearance, but sturdy enough to use year after year. We love it as a tabletop decoration for Thanksgiving and then move it over to your tree for Christmas.
There are many varieties of deer-resistant bulbs: daffodil, muscari, fritillaria, and allium. The most common allium is the tall 'purple sensation' which we love, but here are two lesser known varieties of allium: 'Schubertii' and 'Ivory Queen.'
This very cool Peacock planter was another treasure that Victoria discovered while visiting the grounds of Old Westbury Gardens in Long Island, NY. The yew is planted in the ground behind the planter, while the body of the peacock is planted with trifolium, ferns, ivy, and the top plant we couldn't identify.
It's not too late to plant! Cool nights and the rain we got this afternoon, make it the perfect time to plant. Plus, with 30% off trees, shrubs, and perennials, adding to your garden now will earn big returns on your investment when they bloom next summer(gains measured in happiness and joy of course).
"Damn Yellow Composites."
Pyracantha (Firethorn) is a fantastic drought resistant evergreen shrub. It flowers in the spring, covering the plant with clusters of white flowers, but as you can see, the real display starts in September. The bright orange berries can persist into winter, depending on how many birds stop by for a nibble.
With Halloween just around the corner, we'll help you decorate inside and out with our Halloween-themed decorations and some spooky plants: the dark, almost black, Alocasia (of the elephant ear family) and the tropical cork-screw Equisetum (of the horsetail family). Both are house plants, and both could easily go from dressing up your Halloween display to adding a modern-Zen touch to your guest room or office.
This time of year, when we cut back our sad, spent perennials, pull out the last of the weeds, and add a layer of fall mulch, we should feel content, satisfied with a good season. But we want more! More color more blooms! When we plant addicts see a neat and tidy garden after a fall clean-up, all we see is holes, open spaces where there could be color!
Still blooming blue in October: 'Endless Summer' Hydrangea and Delphinium 'Royal Aspirations'.
The crab apple (pictured foreground top and bottom left) and the dogwood (background top) are putting on their second show of the year. We love plants that do double (or triple) duty. Mostly known for their spring flowers, crab apples and dogwoods don't get enough credit or attention for their fall contribution. Their bright red fruit offer an additional texture to the autumn foliage. Not only ornamental, both are the favorites of birds, especially the Eastern Bluebird, the Northern Cardinal, and the Yellow Warbler.
We at Victoria Gardens love all varieties of Echinacea. This one pictured to the left is named 'Virgin' (we can only guess because of it's lovely white pedals). Our specimens look fresh and fantastic. Other new varieties that we like are are 'Green Envy' and 'Green Jewel' (the latter being a little more cream colored with just a hint of green). 'Kim's Knee High' is another one of our favorites. It is a stout and sturdy Echinacea that only gets about 15" to 18" high.
Many people (mistakenly) believe that once summer is over, their garden is over as well. At Victoria Gardens, we believe that fall in the garden has the potential to knock your socks off with an amazing assortment of autumn blooming perennials, fall-fruiting trees and shrubs, and a rainbow of fall foliage. Ornamental grasses are pluming now, offering great texture and height in perennial beds where you may have cut back many of your summer bloomers.
Aren't these wild? Lithops are a type of ice plant from South Africa. Living stones flower in the fall during October and November, so ours are flowering right now!
Those things that look like toes are the leaves, and the flower pokes up in between the two halves. After flowering, the old leaves shrivel up and completely replaced by two new leaves.
We have a "How to Care for Lithos" pamphlet available at the shop, and the instructions are pretty simple. You mist them with water once every two weeks during the winter months and then in the spring you start misting once a week until it flowers in fall. This is a great gift for kids and grownups alike!
Master gardener, Cheryl Alloway, helped organize this great event. The Friendly Neighbors Quilting Group brought over one hundred quilts and displayed them inside and outside in the nursery. Addmission is canned food and the donations benefit the Food pantries of Rosaendale and Marbletown.
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