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Every week we choose just one for a 20% discount--only available to people who actually come in here or see it on this website. This week our choice is Polemonium Jacob's ladder), a shade-tolerant beautiful plant with spring flowers and year-round great foliage. Have you noticed how early everything is blooming? My best guess is that we're about three weeks ahead of the norm. Daylilies usually peak around late July, and we usually don't see Crocosmia, Echinacea, and Monarda until August. Enjoy them while you can, and think about all the Garden Walk people who were counting on those flowers for their tourists in the coming weeks! What to do: You can't stop them from blooming, but you can push many perennials to re-bloom by cutting them back. The best book for details on the topic--exactly how much to cut back every single perennial at the exact time--is The well-Tended Perennial Garden by Tracy di Sabato-Aust. But even without the book, you shouldn't hesitate to take our a hedge sheers and simply whack most perennials at least in half when they have finished blooming. Great candidates include most Campanulas, Penstemon,Tradescantia, daisies, and Scabiosa. Plants with large shoots such as delphiniums can also produce another bloom late in the season, but it takes them longer. |
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This shed (pictured) needs another name, as it is hardly a shed. It IS a very special kind of small building that's made big news in some garden shows and magazines. You could use the shed (pictured) as a potting shed, but it could also be a little guest house, pool house, party house, or--as the name implies--as a quiet place for an artist to work or a thinker to contemplate. And its designers are from Western New York. Read more about the Artisan Shed at the following websites: www.artisanshed.com and www.shedstyle.com More pictures--the finished inside, and a winter scene--are below. In the meantime,if you wish to see the Artisan Shed, just come in. Danielsson Designs: Custom Signs Made Easy Here's an easy gift idea for any time of year--and you can order it online and have it shipped! The company produces personalized signs or plaques for indoor or outdoor use--perfect to honor an anniversary, new home, wedding, or a special event. (You may have noticed the signs around the store, Hamburg--Where Your Story Begins..., just to spark your creativity.) |
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The BEST GARDENING BOOKS We carry the books that our staff consider best for each topic. If you want to learn more about a particular topic, or if you're planing to give a garden book as a gift, ask for our advice. As a garden writer and lecturer, Sally Cunningham meets many speakers, hears their talks, and peruses their books--so we often have books before they're nationally known. We also get recommendations from other staff experts in plant field--Donna Connelly about houseplants or tropicals, Teresa Buchanan about annuals or perennials. Most of the time we offer a 20% discounts on our books. So if the topic is perennials, trees and shrubs, ornamental grasses, vegetable gardening, composting, butterfly gardening, soil, native plants, or houseplants--we're ready for you. (Pictured above: A much younger Sally Cunningham from the pages of her vegetable gardening book called Great Garden Companions--always available at Lockwoods. Sally will sign her book if you give us the request before you visit.) |
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NEW THIS YEAR... Tracy di Sabato-Aust's 50 Best Performing Perennials On soil: Teaming with Microbes, by Jeff Lowenfels On vegetable gardening and beneficial insects: Great Garden Compsnions by Sally Cunningham (yours truly, and I will be happy to sign it for you.) On seed starting: The Seed Starters' Handbook, by Nancy Bubel On butterfly and hummingbird gardening: Attracting Butterflies and Hummingbirds to Your Backyard, by Sally Roth Armitage's Garden Annuals, and Manual of Annuals, Biennials, and Half-hardy perennials, and the Herbaceous Perennials, also by Alan Armitage On the perennial garden: The Well-Tended Perennial Garden, by Tracy di Sabato-Aust On hostas: The Encyclopedia of Hostas, by Diana Grenfell and Mike Shadrack (Mike will be speaking on Perennials Day, June 19, at Lockwood's, with his brand new edition of the Encyclopedia of Hostas.) (Pictured above, right-- A reading nook in the lovely Artisan Shed.) |
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Lockwood's has complete departments in each plant group, carrying plants that are new and usual as well as dependable old favorites. Check out our selection of the following: Annuals -- from early spring giftand Easter plants, through Mothers' Day, summer and fall--a full collection of trailing vines, uprights, and tropicals for hanging baskets, in-ground gardens, and containers of all types. Even in the middle of summer we're prepared to help people upgrade their container plantings ot add some zing into the flower garden. Perennials -- We will offer from May into October the very best and broadest selection of nearly every perennial you can name. We attend Perennial Plant Association conventions and continue to educate ourselves on what's new and what's proven. Then we keep the selection available all summer because we believe that FALL is for PLANTING. Shrubs and small trees -- In the last few years we have developed an outstanding shrub department, for every landscape need. Don't miss the huge array of flowering hydrangeas, or our rare Japanese maples. We also have several CNLPs on the staff and more in training, so the expertise is here to help you choose the right plant for your situation (including difficult or deer-prone sites.)We also have some rare small trees you probably won't find in other WNY nurseries. Houseplants -- We grow most of our houseplants from cuttings and keep Mother plants going for decades. Count on us for houseplants and help with them for twelve months a year. Also, don't miss the orchid collection! |
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Some of our shrubs are looking great in the winter landscape. So consider planting some of these native plants in the spring, for next winter's pleasure: Aronia 'Brilliantissima'--with the brightest red berries ever, as well as fall color Ilex verticillata 'Winter red' Hamamelis (Witch Hazel)--soon to have flowers in late winter! Shrub dogwoods--with red or orange/red branches you'll want to cut for decorating. Betula nigra (River birch)--with gorgeous shaggy bark all winter And many more healthy choices to plant now for great performance next season. 4484 Clark St Hamburg, NY 14075 716-649-4684 |
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