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.

Designing in Scale: Trees That Stay Small

Forest Pansy Redbud
Full sun to part shade.
Cold hardy to -20 degrees F.
Grows 25' tall and 25' wide.





'Limelight' Hydrangea Standard
Full sun to part shade.
Cold hardy to -40 degrees F.
Grows 6' to 8' tall and 6' wide.






Ninebark Standard
Physocarpus opulifolius 'Diabolo'
Full sun to part shade
Cold hardy to -40 degrees F.
Grows 10' to 12' high and 6' to 8' wide.





Pagoda Dogwood
Cornus alternifolia
Full sun to partial shade.
Cold hardy to -40 degrees F.
Grows 15' to 20' high and 15' to 20' wide.







'Quickfire' Hydrangea Standard
Full sun to part shade.
Cold hardy to -40 degrees F.
Grows 6' to 8' tall and 6' wide.





Styrax japonicus fargesii (Japanese Snowbell)
Full sun to part shade.
Cold hardy to -30 degrees F.
Grows 20' to 30' tall and 20' to 30' wide.





Dappled Willow Standard
Salix integra 'Hakuro Nishiki'
Full sun.
Cold hardy to -30 degrees F.
Grows 10' to 15' tall and 15' to 20' wide.

Victoria Gardens' Recent Landcape Projects

Pictures From 2010: