Garden Tips

The Garden Path Nursery, Florist & Gifts

Garden Tips

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With years of experience in the nursery business, we strive to make The Garden Path a unique shopping experience. Advice on growing and blooming habits are available on every plant offered as well as help in choosing just the right location in your landscape for your new additions. Do-it-yourself landscapers can bring in photos or diagrams of their projects to receive advice on what and where to plant.

Customers may bring in their garden containers to choose their plant selections or drop them off and Shari will refill them. Perennials, common and unusual, are sold in gallon and various 4-inch sizes.

Shari always enjoys helping customers

with landscape design projects.

Fall is for Planting

These plant are all noted for their terrific fall color:

Camellias- beautiful fall blooms

Crape Myrtle - great fall foliage

Dogwood- crimson foliage

Dwarf Burning Bush- brilliant red foliage color

Burford Hollies- red berries

Autumn Blaze Maples- gorgeous red & burgundy foliage

Sugar Maple- beautiful golden foliage

Shumardi Oak- dependable red autumn color

Bradford Pear- crimson foliage

Pyrancantha- fall berries

Knockout Roses- huge,right fall blooms

Fall Gardening Activities

* Sprrnd a day driving through the country to admire the autumn leaves

*Gather gords and colorful leaves for Thanksgiving decorations

*Feed bulbs now witha slow-release fertilizer.

*Bring in terra cotta pots before a hard freeze.

*It is not to late to plant pansies for great flowers in winter and early spring.

* Get a head start on making gifts from the garden

*Look for new ideas in gardening books

*Set up a bird or squirrel feeder and keep it well stocked

*Try a new and exotic houseplant

Our nursery offers a variety of seasonal bedding plants, foliage plants and hanging baskets. The greenhouse is filled with assorted herbs and assortment of houseplants. The plant yard includes a variety of shrubs, azaleas, roses, fruit and shade trees and water plants.

Perennial of the Month
Aster
Botanical Name: Aster
Flower Colors: Shades of Purples and Pinks

Plant Type: Perennial
Blooming Period: Late Summer and Fall
Leaves:dark green
Size: May be grown as a long, leggy vine, or pruned to a shrub-like appearance
Exposure: Full sun or partial shade
Soil: Not particular; grows well in most soils
Watering: Water regularly and provide good drainage

Special Care: Cut back to stimulate bushiness if plant becomes leggy.Cover with mulch after ground is frozen , remove in spring

We will update this page often to give the latest in gardening tips and highlight a new plant that we recommend. We welcome any ideas you may have for this page and let us know what you would like to know more about. We look forward to hearing from you.

Shari

We also offer fresh & silk floral arrangements and gift baskets for all occasions.

Gift wrapped plants and plant arrangements are also available.

Each arrangement is custom made when you order so that you receive that special touch. Get well, sympathy, birthday or just thinking of you arrangements or gift baskets are made to express whatever sentiment you want to express.

We will also help design holiday and everyday wreaths and home decor.

Delivery is available for a small fee and we will ship any silk arrangements.

The Garden Path Nursery, Florist & Gifts

Billy & Shari Holcomb- Owners

311 Millcreek Rd.

Hot Springs, AR 71901

501-623-2574
thegardenpath1@yahoo.com