Welcome to a new year at New Leaf Nursery!
For all of you who read our newsletter, visit our website, and visit our garden center and nursery, you all have a sentimental attachment to gardening, and your garden, in particular. Every winter, we gardeners, count down the days til once again, we can get our gardening shoes, and hats, and out to the garden we go, tools in hand, and hats on heads, ready to take on the challenge ahead! We spend the better part of the winter thinking about what we can do in that blank patch against the fence, studying the ways we can help protect our pollinators, or how we can add more year round color to the front walk. We stare at the photos of our gardens from earlier in the year, and dream of the day they look like that again!
The joy of witnessing something beautiful spring from a simple seed or bulb can be almost euphoric for those of us who are gardeners. There is a sense of peace in our spirits as we think ahead to the happy days we will spend again in our garden. Seeing the bulbs we planted in the fall, bloom into spectacular tulips, narcissus, and hyacinth, is almost a miracle. And, as the perennials return, the garden breathes new life, not only into itself, but into us as well!
“We thank you for being part of our gardening community, and for giving us the opportunity to once again provide you with an amazing selection of plants, trees and shrubs to allow you to create the garden you have been dreaming of all winter long!”
Elaine, Eric & Ben Christen
GOOD NEWS!
Good news is what we love to bring you, and here’s the insider scoop!
Traditionally we have opened in early April, but since you are calling and sneaking in around closed gates, we decided to officially open for the 2022-2023 season on Friday, March 4th at 9:00am!
We are receiving 2-3 truckloads of trees and shrubs every week, and in the next few weeks—weather permitting—the annuals and perennials will begin to arrive.
This year, another great news item, is we are planting our own beautiful garden baskets, brimming with gorgeous colors. Watch the website in the next few weeks on how to reserve yours, and the availability of vibrant color combinations!
WHAT’S NEW?
The season starts out with the barn loaded with new products for gardening and home decoration, as well as pottery, hanging baskets and garden tools, door mats that will make you giggle, silk flowers that will brighten any room, beautiful soaps and lotions from wonderful Kew Gardens just outside London (www.kew.org) stunningly beautiful wind chimes, and the most amazing selection of seeds you’ve ever seen!
Soaps & Lotions
Kew Gardens gift soaps and lotions, and we carry a ‘gardeners’ hand soap that is wonderful!
Spring Seeds
Beautiful seed packaging from Hudson Valley seeds! They make great Easter basket stuffers!
The battle of the bugs is real.
Explore our extensive line of organic gardening products to win the battle and keep your garden growing.
SEED STARTING
Seeds, trays, tags, soils, and amendments can be found inside the garden center…now is the time to start your seeds for a great summer harvest! We have all you need to get your project started!
FRUIT TREES
Some of you may have been waiting patiently on the ‘wish list’ for the tree you weren’t able to get last season! If you did sign up, you will get a call when your variety arrives at the nursery. Trucks are coming every day! Once you get the call, simply pay for the tree, and if you like, come pick out your tree, we will label it, and we will house it for you in our greenhouse, to protect it from the freeze, and it will be ready for you to pick up generally around the 2nd week of May. And…if you didn’t sign up, and you want a tree, we suggest you order your tree on line by the middle of March to guarantee that you will receive it. As with last year, the supply chain issues remain, and it looks like it will be another challenging year for the nursery industry too!
CLASSES
Did you know we teach classes at New Leaf Nursery? We have classes for everyone! From fun and creative crafting ideas, to learning how to prune everything from shrubs to vines, we have a class for you! Are you interested to learning the art of preventing deer and other varmints from eating the landscape…we have it all! Our classes are fun and informative! Check out the website and sign up for any and all. Space is limited, so first come, first serve!
COME SEE US AT THE HOME & GARDEN SHOW
Once again, New Leaf Nursery will be front and center at the NIBCA Home & Garden Show at the Kootenai County Fairgrounds, and we’d love to have you drop by and say hello! The show starts on Friday, March 4 at noon. Stroll the show and then head down Government Way to come see us on our opening weekend! Pick up a hand out at the show for a great discount coupon for your first purchase of the season at the nursery!
The show continues through the weekend so come on in out of the cold and get some great ideas for not only your gardens, but lots of other great vendors in the home improvement market!
Friday, March 4, 12:00 - 6:00pm
Saturday, March 5, 10:00am - 6:00pm
Sunday, March 6, 10:00am - 4:00pm
SPECIAL VARIETIES
Our buyers are ‘plant detectives,’ working long and hard to find the newest, and most unusual varieties of plants and flowers to bring to you at New Leaf Nursery! Every year, the growers introduce new varieties, in various color ranges and sizes, as well as newly hybridized versions of old favorites. If you shop our greenhouses and nursery regularly, you will see these plants as they arrive. Our trucks come two and three times a week, sometimes more, so visiting the nursery on a regular basis allows you the opportunity to see the new things first! We have a helpful and friendly staff who are happy to be of service to you!
We’re back!
Our team of landscaper designers are back to work, so if this is the year you want to have a professionally created landscape design, contact our team either through the website or give us a call! We are now booking for the season. (208) 762-4825
JOIN OUR TEAM
We are always looking for new people to join our team! If you’re interested in more information, give us a call! We’re a happy place to work, in an amazingly beautiful environment, out in the fresh air…what more could you want!
Call today, or stop by to see us!
SEED REWARDS MEMBERS
If you haven’t already done so, sign up to earn rewards every time you shop at New Leaf Nursery! Join our Seeds Rewards program and see how fast your points add up.
It’s easy, and free! Sign up on our website, or next time you’re in the nursery; one of our associates will be happy to help. Then, every time you come in, or purchase online, you will earn rewards! Yay! Free stuff!
Now, old man winter… blow your winds another way… melt your ice… soften the soil… the gardeners are on their way!
Looking forward to seeing you all soon!
