Garland Nursery
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Garland Nursery
5470 NE Hwy 20
Corvallis, OR 97330
541-753-6601
Mon-Fri 9-6
Sat 9-5 Sun 10-5
garland@garlandnursery.com
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September 9- 12, 2010
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August 2010
We are blessed to live in a community enriched by Oregon State University and to have the OSU Extension Service as a resource. Click here for a list of things to do this month.
Featured Product
Espoma Tones
For the past 80 years, Espoma Tones have defined the naturally beautiful garden. From our famous Holly-tone® to our newest product, Flower-tone®, each is a complex blend of long lasting natural ingredients, enhanced with our Bio-tone® microbes.
Each Tone has been carefully developed in conjunction with nursery and horticultural professionals to produce outstanding flowers, shrubs and vegetables. No fillers, sludge or inert ingredients are ever used. And since every ounce of every Tone is manufactured in our own plant under our strict supervision, quality is guaranteed.
- Long lasting natural organics break down slowly for steady, continuous feeding.
- Contains Bio-tone® microbes.
- Adds organic matter to soil.
- Safe. Low in salts so it won't burn.
- Safe for people, pets, & the environment
Current Weather
Singing the Blues By Karen Hopson
July Monthly Color -Blue
Blue is the epitome of coolness and serenity. It blends beautifully with pink, white, lavender and silver and forms excellent contrasts with yellow, orange and red.
The earliest blues in my garden comes from bulbs such as Anemones, Iris reticulate, Crocus, Muscari and Siberian Squills (Scilla). When the bulbs arrive in September be sure to add some of these blue treasures to your garden.
By April Forget-Me-Nots (Myosotis) form clouds of tiny blue flowers, self-seeding in between other emerging perennials. Columbines (Aquilegias), Siberian Iris, Mountain Knapweed (Centauria), Lithodora, Brunnera and Pulmonaria add blue tones 
throughout spring.
June brings elegant spires of Dephiniums, masses of hardy geraniums and mounds of Nepeta to add to the show. Blue annuals such as Ageratum, Cerinthe, Larkspur, Echium, Salvia and Love-in a-Mist (Nigella) provide color in every shade of blue in both the garden and bouquets.
In summer magnificent blooms of Hydrangeas are the stars of the shade garden. If you want to make your Hydrangeas more blue next year try adding aluminum sulfate in spring and fall (Ask for our handout on Hydrangeas).
For sunny spots the blue spiraea (Caryopteris) and Chaste Tree (Vitex) are stunning, deer resistant and drought tolerant once established. Another deer resistant plant, Harlequin Glory Bower (Clerodendrum) blooms with fragrant white flowers in August followed by jewel-like blue berries.
Blue is one of the most rare colors in nature but gardeners can select blue gems for every season.
Click here for complete list of blue plants
