Mother's
Day Specials At Dayton's, you'll find the PERFECT
living, lasting GIFT for MOM!
NEW!
Sunny
Knock Out Rose Yellow flowers all summer! In bloom!
SALE $19.99 Reg. $29.99; Save $10; trade 3 gallon; valid
thru 5-12-08
Dwarf Lilacs - Miss Kim or Meyeri Palibin Fragrant lavender flowers in spring.
SALE $9.99 reg. $19.99; Save $10; trade 2 gallon; valid thru
5-12-08
Perennial
of the Week Dianthus
'Neon Star' Vibrant, florescent pink flowers cover the evergreen blue-grey
foliage. The habit is compact and mounding to a height of about 7" tall and
wide. Even more wonderful, the flowers exude the spicy scent of cloves.
Though budding is most prolific in early summer, plants often re-bloom in
the fall.
To-Do in the Garden...
Fertilize trees, shrubs and perennials with Plant-tone
or Holly-tone if you have not done this yet.
Edge
and cleanup landscape beds, apply Preen
weed preventer and then a light cover of new mulch to give beds that
fresh look if you have not yet.
Start a spray program for roses
including teas, floribundas and grandifloras to prevent disease and
insect damage. NeemOil and Bi-Carb are both
excellent organic controls.
Get ready to sprayDogwoods and
large-leaved
Rhododendron to prevent borer damage. We recommend you spray
Eight on the trunk and lower branches the week of May 1st, May 15th
and May 30th.
Take a walk through garden centers and nurseries at the end of April
through mid-May especially to get an idea of what is available for your
lawn or garden as this is the time of year that selection is greatest.
Apply
Bayer's Rhododendron & Azalea Insect & Disease Control
insecticide as directed to Azaleas,
small-leaved
Rhododendron and Pieris to control
lace bugs. Apply again in six weeks. Be sure to water in well.
Spray Bonide Systemic InsectControl to clean
up an existing infestation of lacebug. Spray after
blooms have dropped (about June 5) and repeat in 10 days. Be sure to
get under the leaves where the bugs are hiding.
Planttomato and pepperplants and most
other annuals when the danger of frost has passed and the ground has
warmed. This is usually around the 3rd to 4th week of May.
Apply a weed & feed as directed to your lawn
the last week of May to control broadleaf weeds.
Dayton
"Dirt"
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May 3rd It’s Maytime and time to start vegetable and annual planting…. or
is it? For those of us that have well-drained soil, sweet corn, beans,
peas, beets, among other vegetables, could be planted now as well as
gladiolus, dahlia tubers, pansies and other cold tolerant flowers.
It’s still early though for many annual flowers and
vegetable plants such as peppers and tomatoes as the last frost date for
northeast Ohio is about May 30th. The earliest planting of these
“heat-loving” plants usually would be no sooner than mid-May with the
gardener having an ever watchful, vigilant eye on the word gardeners fear in
May – “frost”.
Be prepared to cover your valuable plants with hot-kaps,
frost fabric or in the case of light frosts, a good watering early in the
morning just before sunrise will prevent damage on your valuable plants.
May is the month that trees, shrubs and other plants
finally “wake-up” from their long winter slumber and put on their
spectacular show and maybe, as we would like to think, for our enjoyment.
Jesus spoke “consider the lilies of the field, how they
grow; they toil not neither do they spin, but tell you that not even Solomon
in all his glory was arrayed like one of these”
At the nursery the Azaleas are showing color ready to
just burst into bloom turning the nursery into a blaze of color!
Rhododendron with their large flower trusses will sit
proudly on top of their whorls of leaves a little later this month.
And the Lilacs, with their heavenly scents and many
with French names, such as ‘Madame Lemoine’ and ‘Paul Thirion’ will more
than rival the finest French perfumes.
I invite you to come just to walk around to drink in
all of spring at Dayton’s from the nursery grounds, outdoor sales areas, and
perennial and annual flower greenhouses bursting with blooms.
Yes, I would like for you to make a purchase as it
“pays the bills” but even if you don’t, you’re welcome anyway.
May, 2008 Everyone these days is concerned about the price of fuel and its
effects on our lives as these price increases spread throughout the general
economy.
We all know that the cheapest fuel is the fuel we don’t
use. Less use of non-renewable resources like natural gas and oil is not
only good for our pocket books and national security but our environment as
well.
One aspect of our fossil fuel use that many of us do
not consider is at the grocery store in the great amount of miles that food
must be shipped such as salmon from farms in Chile or asparagus from Mexico.
Even now in Great Britain, there are signs posted in
some grocery stores about the number of “food miles” a particular product
has traveled.
What does all of this mean to you?
Planting a garden today is like the victory gardens
that were planted during World War II. Planting a vegetable garden in
essence will:
Reduce “food miles” and thus save energy as your
harvesting produce out of your own backyard.
Reduce dangerous pesticide usage in the
environment as corporate farms use tons of dangerous chemicals. Less
demand for “their” products means less pesticide.
The unseen benefits to planting a garden are the
increased family time planting, cultivating and preparing food from the
garden and the valuable lessons that children learn in that belonging to
the family unit means that helping out as a family member is required
and includes helping out in the garden and save you money.
Increase supplies of fresh produce which will in
turn hold down prices.
Give you more control over some of your food
supply in that you can be sure the produce on your table is fresh and
healthy to eat instead of relying on long distance domestic sources, or
even worse, foreign sources.
Our third president Thomas
Jefferson is well known as the author of the Declaration of Independence,
champion of public education and the persistent supporter of freedom of
religion was actually a passionate and avid gardener. So much so that he
wrote in a letter to his friend Vincent Peale in the year 1820 the
following:
“I have often thought that
if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have
been on a rich spot of earth, well watered, and near a good market for the
productions of the garden. No occupation is so delightful to me as the
culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden! Such
a variety of subjects, some one always coming to perfection the failure of
one thing repaired by the success of another, and instead of one harvest, a
continued one through the year. Under a total want of demand except for our
family table, I am still devoted to the garden. But though an old man, I am
but a young gardener.”
Thomas
Jefferson to Charles Wilson Peale
August 20, 1811
Plant Encyclopedia
Stop flipping through garden and plant
books! Use our new plant encyclopedia
to easily find plant names, descriptions, flower color, bloom time, pruning
information, fertilizing information, insect & disease control, and much
more! All plants listed are only those you can find at our nursery,
assuring you healthy, zone 5 hardy plants
Virus-Indexing
Virus-indexing is one of the
newest developments here at Dayton’s. What is virus indexing?
Simply, it is the process by which viruses that cause plants to lose
their strength and vigor, are identified and removed. Virus-indexed plants
are healthier and more vigorous which means better growth and more blooms
for you! While not all of Dayton’s perennials and annuals are virus indexed,
most are, so that we can achieve our goal by the spring of 2008 to have all
our plants virus-indexed!
What's New at Dayton's??
Happy Spring 2007: making our
nursery more "green", growing programs and an update on the Wolf Creek
Botanical Garden
3459 Cleveland-Massillon Rd. Norton, Ohio 44203 Just 1/4 mile North of I-76 in the historic Loyal Oak area of
Norton, Ohio 330-825-3320 or 1-866-500-6605
info@daytonnursery.com contact: Amy Calhoun,
Webmaster
Mother's
Day Specials 
Edge
and clean up landscape beds, apply Preen
weed preventer and then a light cover of new mulch to give beds that
fresh look if you have not yet. 
Apply
Bayer's Rhododendron & Azalea Insect & Disease Control
insecticide as directed to
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