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The Seasonal Gardening Newsletter For The Willamette Valley

 March/April 2009

Planted in this Newsletter!

From The "FRONT" Nursery	From The "BACK" Nursery
Reed&Cross @ Gray's!	Ideas, Deals & Reminders!
The Grass Is Greener! 101 Lawn Care	Important Dates!
Conservatory Corner	Gray's Great Egg Hunt 4/11!
Only 3 Days Left for Double Color Dollars!	Thank You!

From the "Front"...Nursery 

	The Best $.89 Annuals!

Edibles, Edibles & Color 

This is the year for growing; at Gray's we can help.  Gray's has one of the largest selections of locally grown vegetables, herb starts and all the accessories needed to start your own sucessful edible garden.

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Come see our "Grown by Gray's" annuals and perennials.  That's right, Gray's Greenhouses are in full production and are delivering product weekly to both locations.  Come check out the best in locally grown annuals and perennials.   

 From the "Back" Nursery

 Highlights for Spring '09

  Pieris

Pieris is a beautiful evergreen shrub with great multi-season interest. This excellent landscape plant has several qualities from exciting contrast in colors as the new growth emerges to the millions of buds and blooms of early spring. Mountain Fire produces pendulous white flower cluster and beautiful fiery red new growth.  Valley Valentine has deep red buds that open to bold pink flowers, while new growth is bronze colored. Grows 5’ tall and wide. Flaming Silver has variegated green and white foliage with red new growth and has white flowers on a 5’ tall and wide shrub. Prelude is a dwarf selection with pure white flowers on a globe shaped plant. Slow growing to 3’ tall and wide.

Mountain Fire

Valley Valentine

Flaming Silver

Prelude

Flowering Quince- Early blooms in several colors add an interesting oriental look to a garden. Prized for large flowers, bonsai potential, and attracting birds, flowering quince makes a great focal point in any garden. Available in dwarf standards, contorted and shrub forms with red, orange, or pink blooms.

Gold Cluster

Spring Glory

Forsythia- These early bloomers sport the vibrant yellow flowers that have become a fixture of spring dreams. Their flowers precede their leaves producing long branches of blooms.   Bronxensis is a dwarf, compact, dense growing shrub with profuse lemon yellow blooms and bronze fall color. Grows 18” tall and 3’ wide.  Gold cluster has golden yellow flowers packed on the stems and is a more compact shrub growing 5’ tall and wide. Spring glory is a showy mound of brilliant yellow and is great for screens and backgrounds growing 8’ tall and 6’ wide. This variety also comes in tree form so it’s perfect for containers.

GPG SPECIAL 25% off any size forsythia - Offer expires 4/6/09

SMALL SPACE FRUIT TREES Even the smallest gardens can be a source of fresh home grown fruit. Dwarf and semi-dwarf fruit trees are perfect in pots, courtyards and small sized gardens. It’s not the fruit that is small, but rather the tree and though the trees stay smaller, fruit productivity is high. GPG SPECIAL $5.00 off any bare root fruit tree Offer expires 4/6/09

New Spring door wreaths starting at just $55.00! - Offer ends 4/30/09 Spruce up your silk arrangements for spring!  Save 20% in April - Offer ends 4/30/09 Pre-order Mother's Day arrangements and save 10%!  - Offer ends 4/30/09 Secretaries Day is 4/22!  Order a beautiful orchid arrangement for only $29.99! -     Offer ends 4/17/09.

Get them growing early! We have great gifts and the right supplies to start your little gardener!

Realize the power of the flower...Order an arrangement today!

484-1244 reedcross.com

 GREAT IDEAS, DEALS & REMINDERS! 

~ NEW ~ Bamboo Containers & Saucers ~ New for 2009 this new innovative product is 100% biodegradable.  Works indoors and outdoors and comes in a great assortment of colors. 

~ NEW ~ Bamboo Garden Gloves ~ New for 2009 this new innovative product is lighter and softer than cotton.  It is four times more absorbant than cotton, breathable, cool and naturally antibacterial.  These gloves fit well and are very comfortable and stand up to tough garden work.  They are also availiable with Nitrile or natural rubber latex coated palms and are machine washable.  A staff recommendation! 

~ Trap those Queens! ~ That's right, time to start thinking about putting out yellow jacket traps.  By catching the queens, when they first emerge, you can reduce the overall population for the season!

~ Peace Rose $5.00! ~ Get a Peace Rose for $5.00 with purchase of any other rose at regular price!  Limit one per customer to the first 50 GPG members.

~ NEW & Back! ~ Fertilome Rose & Flower Food with Systemic Insecticide ~ A favorite with rose gardeners, this product is used at planting or before pest damage is observed.  You can achieve up to 8 weeks protection with one application.  Not appropriate for vegetable gardens, but for broad use with other landscape plantings; trees, shrubs, evergreens, flowering foliage plants.  Great for hanging baskets!  This granular product delivers both fertilization and a systemic insecticide for great low maintenance results! 

~ Like Slugs & Snails? ~ You shouldn't wait to bait!  Prior to planting your new annual color, be proactive and apply SLUGGO PLUS!  Approved for Organic Gardening. 

 ~ EB Stone Sure Start ~ A must for planting.  This staff favorite is packed full of natural and organic ingredients, including mycorrhizal fungi.  Helps to develop a strong foundation for growth, bloom and fruiting. 4lb. Box only $8.99

~ NEW ~ Herb Grow Kit - 5 Kitchen Herbs w/5 terra cotta pots and stand! - $19.99!

~ DAPHNE ~ fragrant flower - reg $14.99 NOW $9.99 thru 4/6/09

~ DWARF BOXWOOD ~ Buy one get one free - #1 reg. $10.99 thru 4/6/09

~ DWARF ALBERTA SPRUCE ~ Buy one get one free - #1 reg. $12.99 thru 4/6/09