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THE OLD SIGN PHILOSOPHER, THOUGHT FOR THE DAY!

LIFE IS COMPLICATED.....WE SIMPLIFY GARDENING

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FIRST ANNUAL GREAT YARD SALE!!!!

50% OFF SELECTED CONTAINER GROWN SHRUBBERY INCLUDING ARBORVITAE, JUNIPER, LOTS OF ROSES, ROSE OF SHARON, BURNING BUSH, THE LIST GOES ON FOREVER BUT THE SALE DOESN'T. FIRST COME----FIRST SERVED. IF YOU HAVE BEEN PUTTING OFF THAT LANDSCAPE PROJECT, WELL, NOW IS THE TIME TO SAVE BIG ON THE END OF THE YEAR YARD SALE. WE'VE RELOCATED THESE SALE ITEMS ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE PARKING LOT. LOOK FOR THE SALE SIGNS. SALE ITEMS ARE MARKED BY A SPECIAL MARKING.

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FROST TIPS

Do you still have some showy annuals or perennials that you don't want wasted by the frost? Or, how about those knockout roses which still have an abundant floral showing? THE KEY TO SURVIVING IN THE FROST IS SIMPLE! Lightly hose off the frost on the foliage before the sun burns the frost off. I had knockout roses still blooming last year at Thanksgiving by utilizing this simple trick.

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GREENSCAPE GARDENS & WALTER GARDENS TOP 25 PERENNIALS FOR 2005.

1. Hemerocallis 'Stella de Oro'
2. Hemerocallis 'Happy Returns'
3. Coreopsis v. 'Moonbeam'
4. Hosta 'Francee'
5. Artemisia s. 'Silver Mound'
6. Gaillardia 'Fanfare' PP15892
7. Salvia n. 'May Night'
8. Hosta 'Sum and Substance'
9. Sedum 'Autumn Joy'
10. Perovskia atriplicifolia
11. Dicentra spectabilis
12. Perovskia 'Little Spire' PP11643
13. Hosta 'Patriot'
14. Hosta 'Loyalist'
15. Rudbeckia f. 'Goldsturm'
16. Echinacea 'Sunrise' PPAF (Big Sky TM Series)
17. Hosta 'Fortunei Aureomarginata'
18. Festuca g. 'Elijah Blue'
19. Echinacea 'Sunset' PPAF (Big Sky TM Series)
20. Leucanthemum s. 'Becky'
21. Hosta 'Great Expectations'
22. Hosta 'Remember Me'
23. Hosta 'Blue Angel'
24. Hibiscus 'Kopper King' PP10793
25. Dicentra 'Luxuriant'

ADDITIONAL RECOMMENDED PERENNIALS

(other plants we consider to be excellent choices for your perennial gardens.
• Agastache 'Blue Fortune'
• Brunnera m. 'Jack Frost' PP13859
• Brunnera m. 'Looking Glass' PPAF
• Calamagrostis a. 'Karl Foerster'
• Dianthus g. 'Firewitch' (2006 Perennial Plant of the Year)
• Heuchera 'Lime Rickey' PPAF
• Heucherella 'Stoplight' PPAF
• Hosta 'Regal Splendor'
• Hosta 'Stained Glass' (2006 Hosta of the Year)
• Liatris s. 'Kobold'
• Miscanthus s. 'Little Zebra' PP13008
• Nepeta 'Kit Cat'
• Phlox p. 'Laura'
• Polemonium r. 'Stairway to Heaven' PP15187
• Sedum 'Purple Emperor'
• Stokesia 'Peachie's Pick'