Saturday, July 9
4:30 - 8:30pm
Kick off Garden Tour weekend with the Second Annual Summer Festival at New Leaf Nursery.
The Coeur d’ Alene Garden Club is hosting the 23rd Annual Garden Tour on Sunday, July 10 (we have Garden Tour tickets at the front desk in the garden center at the nursery!). To celebrate the event, and the summer season, we are inviting our community friends to the 2nd Annual Summer Festival at the nursery to kick off the weekends’ festivities!
Come enjoy a fun filled afternoon at the nursery on Saturday July 9, from 4:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.! Whether you are 7 or 70, we promise you’ll find something to make you smile! Live music is provided by CDA’s greatest rock band, Lake Town Sound, and there will be lots of food and treats from local food vendors! The Beer Garden reopens with Lone Mountain Farms selling their signature brews. Giant bouncy houses and games, along with face painters and balloon artists will keep the kids happy, while you enjoy strolling in the nursery on a summer afternoon!
Tickets to the Festival are available on our web site ($12 each). Seeds Rewards Members can sign up for up to 4 tickets FREE! You will receive an email with a special promotional code to enter at the time of purchase. (Check your SPAM folder and then contact the nursery if If you don’t receive the email.)
If you would like to become a Seeds Reward Member, you can sign up on our web site.
Looking forward to seeing you, our friends and neighbors!
Proudly donating a portion of our sales during the Summer Festival to the Companions Animal Center (formerly known as Kootenai Humane Society)
Tomato Mania
If there ever was a good time to get those tomatoes going, it’s now! And we have them — lots of varieties and all you have to do is decide which ones you want to try this year!
One of our faves is the Black Brandywine…it is an heirloom variety, and an excellent choice!
It’s am amazing addition to your summer salad. The coloring is deep and rich and the taste is a sweet, smokey, and balanced flavor, making it the ideal compliment to many dishes. Some consider it to be the standard for heirloom-tomato flavor, making it a staple for many common tomato dishes.
We have more. Come choose your favorite today!
Perennial Gardens
This is the time of year that we appreciate our perennials the most! Whether you LOVE the look of the English garden, or you prefer a more manicured design, summer is the time that the perennials show off and give your garden that continued pop of color. Long after the bulbs have bloomed and faded, the perennial continues to bring joy to the gardener and all that see them!
Looking for something to change up your gardens! Here are a few inspirations of interesting and unique approaches to perennial gardening!
Green, green and more green. So many amazing shades of green can be accomplished with hostas. An area favorite you can count on returning every year to enhance the beauty of your outdoor spaces!
Don’t be afraid of adding a variety of textures to your plantings! Tall wispy grasses can create a tremendous focal point amidst the rounded leaves of hostas, and the globe shaped hydrangea blooms!
A pop of color. Add a contrasting color to the green and see the change it brings to the more sublime palette. Look to a color wheel to establish what colors are best! In the case below, bright vibrant red, accented with bolts of bright amber yellow in pots, add a huge boost of personality to the shades of green. Add an accent of a natural wood ‘bench,’ pour a nice cold drink, and sit down and enjoy the view!
Here’s a few ‘tried and true’ perennials that we love and think you will too!
Echinacea
Catmint
Phlox
Peony
The last word on your perennial gardens. When it is time, and the season comes to an end, if you need help and guidance with putting your perennials to bed for the winter, we are offering a class on pruning perennials! Taught by our resident pruning guru, Lori, the class will help you understand the ‘why’ and ‘how’ to pruning your perennials for another season of beauty ahead! You’ll find her class, as well as many others, on the events page of our web site!
News Flash—New Plant Alert
We have the BEST plant detective who is also our buyer! If you keep reading, you’ll find out who she is! She is in constant search of new and interesting varieties of plants for all our gardens! She outdid herself with these two!
The Siberian Brunnera is a solid green leaf variety of the common variegated leaf we all probably have in our gardens that are bursting with tiny blue blossoms this time of year! The Siberian variety blooms in a slightly different shade of blue than it’s variegated cousin! You will love it, and it’s a great addition to your shade garden!
The second great discovery is the Tatra Gold Deschampsia. Wow, that’s quite a name, and quite a plant. Simply stated, it’s an ornamental grass that likes the shade. It starts out the year a fabulous shade of apple green and then, as the year moves along, it almost reaches a shade of purple — and yes, in the shade! Come by the nursery soon if you’d like one of these, or two, or three.
Gold Deschampsia — Spring to Summer
Gold Deschampsia — Summer to Fall
All Start Team Member—the super plant detective and buyer!
Meet Elaine! She is the secret in the ‘secret sauce’ at New Leaf Nursery! This lady knows her plants — how to care for them, how to plant them, when and where to plant them, how to trim and prune them! She knows what this plant needs, and what that plant won’t tolerate. She knows what time to plant them, and she knows what time to cut them all back! In other words, she is the ‘google search’ of plants, trees and shrubs!
As well as being the Queen of Plant Knowledge, Elaine is a kind spirit, who cares about the Earth, and the Bees and her team members at New Leaf!
She is the cog that keeps the wheel turning, and we are so fortunate to have her with us.
Next time you are in the nursery, if you see Elaine, have her direct you to the newest, coolest plants in town!
Elaine Christen, New Leaf’s amazing buyer and plant guru.
Waterlogged Plants
It’s hard to complain when so much of the West is parched for water. But there is a point of maybe a little too much rain? Looking out the window, we see plants laying over heavy with water, standing water filling the flower beds and yards, iris blooms sagging in the downpour.
What’s the best way to remedy this amount of water in the garden? Here’s great info on what you can do to save your plants!
“While rain is as important to your plants as sun and nutrients, too much of a good thing can spell trouble. When rain is knocking down plants, gardeners often despair, worried that their precious petunias will never be the same. Although plants flattened by rain are a troubling sight, torrential rains and plants have been co-existing for thousands of years — healthy plants are perfectly capable of managing rain damage,” says Kristi Waterworth, writing for Gardening Know How.
Click the link below for more helpful information on how to help your plants recover!
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/plant-problems/environmental/rain-knocking-down-plants.htm
