Rice Road Greenhouses and Garden Centre

Living Centerpieces for your Home

Corinna — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:00:47 +0000

Dec ’09

11:00 am

Living Centerpieces for your Home - Saturday, December 12 - 11:00am

Create your own beautiful arrangement for your mantel or table with an assortment of fresh greens and berries. Please bring your own purner and gloves. Cost $20.00

Fresh & Frosty - Arrangements for Outdoor Decorating

Corinna — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:54:26 +0000

Nov ’09

11:00 am

Fresh & Frosty - Arrangements for Outdoor Decorating - Saturday, November 28th - 11:00am

Come design and create a stunning piece (or two) for you house front. All you need to bring is a pair of gloves and a apurner. If you have a specific ribbon or decoration you want to use, feel free to bring that as well. We will provide the pot (you will insert this into your urn or pot), oasis, soil, fresh green’s, berry stick and dogwood or cutly willow branches. Additional decorative items may be purchased seperately to completely custom make your Urn. Cost of this seminar is $35.00.

All About Birds and Winter Feeding

Corinna — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:39:36 +0000

Jan

11:00 am

All about Birds and Winter Feeding - Saturday, November 14 at 11:00am

By our very own bird expert Brenda, come out to find out what birds stick around for winter and what you can do to lure them to your yard to add interest to your winter landscape.

Fall Clearance Sale

Corinna — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:15:09 +0000

All Nursery and Perrenial Stock are 60% off!

As well:

Most items in the pond department (including pond liner) are at least 25% off
Brass spitters - 60% off
Trellis’s, pots, and brackets - 60% off
Houseplants 60% off (excluding new stock)
Exotic Tropicals - 60% off
Hardy Tropicals - 60% off

Mulch

Corinna — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:32:27 +0000

The Largest Bulk Yard in the Niagara Region.

Largest Selection in Stone, Mulch and Soil.

Now is a good time to top up or apply mulch to your beds to prevent moisture loss this summer. This will also prevent the weeds from growing in your garden this summer.

Thirty one different varieties available

Available by the bag or in bulk.

If you already know what you want, you can call in your order to be delivered usually with in 24 hours of your call.

Growing a cut flower garden & Arrangement Ideas

admin — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 06:30:17 +0000

Jun ’09

7:00 pm

Grow your own Centerpieces; learn which flowers work the best. We will also discuss several different arrangement methods.

Admission is food or money donations for the local food banks.

Container Water Gardening

admin — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 06:28:33 +0000

Jun ’09

11:00 am

Learn quick, easy and inexpensive ways to add a water feature to your landscape or even on your deck top. Learn about the new trend of container water gardening.

Admission is food or money donations for the local food banks.

Perennial Planters

admin — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 08:50:58 +0000

The patio planter has always been the domain of annuals but many perennials make excellent container plants. Dress up a shady corner with a pot containing Vinca ‘Illumination’, Pachysandra ‘Green Sheen’, Hosta ‘Halcyon’ and Lady Fern (Athyrium filix-femina).

For a more exotic look combine Carex ‘Island Brocade’, Persicarta ‘Red Dragon’ and Japanese Painted Fern (Athyrium niponicum ‘Pictum’). Long planters are perfect for an alpine trough garden. Cover the bottom with gravel for drainage, fill with soil and plant with dwarf Snow-in-Summer (Cerastium alpinum), Edelweiss (Leontopodium), Sedumspath. ‘Purpureum’ and Campanula ‘Dickson’s Gold’, or choose your own combination.

Finish the planter with a thin layer of pea-gravel. Come in and select your own plants and containers and pot them at our potting bench. Zone five or hardier perennials will survive in planters with minimal winter care. Make sure they are moist going into the winter and don’t be embarrassed to water in January if needed.

Silver Grass

admin — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 08:47:54 +0000

Everyone wants Pampas Grass, or do they? The tall grasses seen around town with fluffy plumes in late summer are not the true Pampas Grass (Cotaderia selloana) but a selection of Miscanthus sinensis. M. Sinensis or Silver Grass is a group of hardy, clump forming (non-invasive) grasses which bear tall plumes from late summer through fall and into winter. There are dozens of selections but among the nicest are M. sin. “Zebrinus” (Zebra Grass) which sports horizontal bands of gold across the green leaves, M. sin. “Gracillimus” (Maiden Grass) which is finely textured foliage and the early blooming M. sin. “Grosse Fontaine” with its pinkish plumes. These will all grow six feet or more. M. sin. “Yuka Jima” is perfect for smaller landscapes growing to about 4 feet while M. sin. “Puenktchen” has the same stripes as Zebra grass but at half the size. Since true Pampas grass rarely survives Niagara winters, Miscanthus sinensis is the grass to grow.

Yogurt For Your Pond?

admin — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 08:46:16 +0000

There is good and bad bacteria everywhere. Many forms of beneficial bacteria break down waste. We put bacteria in compost piles and septic tanks. We eat yogurt! Bacteria is present in healthy lakes and ponds. It must live in our pond to create a natural balanced ecosystem. Beneficial bacteria removes algae. Without it, we are leaving out an extremely important part of the ecosystem. We must add beneficial bacteria and trace elements regularly because they die off and get eaten by the fish. We don’t have a natural stream as a constant supply. A biofilter houses billions of bacteria protected from the fish. Beneficial bacteria is the “Bio” in the biofilter. Otherwise it is just a mechanical filter removing solids but not cleansing the water of pollutants. Bacteria is the bottom of the food chain. It breaks down the waste, turning into harmless gasses. Consider bacteria to be “waste management” or “pollution control”. It is like “yogurt in your pond”. If your pond has a heavy layer of waste on the bottom, add Bacta-Pur, Nutripak and Sludgebusters to remove it. If the pond bottom is relatively clean, add Nutripak and the maintenance bacteria Bacta Pur Klear. Always add water conditioner or neutralizer when adding tap water or you will kill the good bacteria that keeps our pond healthy and clear.