Bloom opens in just a week! Mark your calendar for Saturday, April 15th. We’ll be showing off plenty of hellebores (Lenten Rose). They were smuggled into Babylon in a mule’s hoof and used to poison Alexander the Great. The Roman natural historian Pliny records that black hellebore was used as a fumigant in the ritual purification of houses as […]
Keep ReadingSpooky Halloween Fairy Garden Workshop Saturday, October 15, 2016 2-4 pm (Drop-in) $20/child. Pre-registration is recommended! Calling all little ghosts and goblins! Join us for a spook-tacular Halloween-themed fairy garden workshop. Participants will create their own cute or creepy Halloween scene! All supplies are included, and costumes are encouraged but not required!
Keep ReadingAt this fairy garden workshop, attendees will create their own miniature woodland garden with Totoro, the gentle forest spirit of the classic Japanese animated movie, My Neighbor Totoro. If you are unfamiliar with this imaginative and moving tale of two young girls who befriend “Totoro,” a giant yet benign “keeper of the forest,” you are in for a treat! The […]
Keep ReadingCalling all conifer and evergreen enthusiasts… All evergreens are now 25% off. We have many unique varieties for specimen pieces, borders, edges, and Japanese style gardens. This would make a great bonsai for you fairy or railroad garden collection. A happy conifer ready to go home!!! All of these wonderful evergreens and more are 25% […]
Keep ReadingIndoor Seed Starting There comes a time every year for us Michiganders, where we are no longer enjoy the snow and cold weather. Our once excited glances out the window at white wintery wonderland turn into angry stares at the frozen piles of snow. Fortunately, for gardeners, this time of the year coincides with […]
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