A garden for every season

Looking to create or improve your landscape for year round beauty? 
​Our garden experts are readily available to assist you in finding everything you need to make your dreams a reality!

Scroll down for information regarding each season here on Long Island, and to learn more about specific plants to add to your own landscape/garden.

Spring
Bloom into life

Early spring flowers can bring the color and warmth of spring to your garden weeks ahead of schedule. Not only do early spring blooming flowers add beauty, they can be helpful in attracting bees and other pollinators to your yard early in the season, which encourages them to make your garden a regular place to visit for them.
In order to prepare for early spring gardening, dedicated green thumbs should begin to plan in the cold months of mid-winter. One must be careful regarding what plants he or she does decide to include in an early spring garden, however, as many plants cannot survive the initial, still-chilly spring months.
Spring is also the perfect time to start planning, and even planting, those vegetable and herb gardens.
If you see plants for sale at our shop, it means it's time to plant! 
As weather in spring can be fickle, our staff is able to guide you on how to have your purchases survive through the ever changing conditions of this season. 

Summer
A celebration in color

Watch your garden burst with life! Summer on Long Island means bright blooms of perennials, show-stopping annuals, and bountiful harvests of summer vegetables and herbs. 
Summers here on the island can be very hot, and as such, it is important to consider your watering commitment to your garden, as well as sprinkler location and duration. Summer is also the time when you should be giving your garden regular applications of fertilizer. Plants, like humans, can not thrive with just water alone. Feeding your plants fertilizer gives them the nutrition they need to keep blooming and performing throughout those dog days of summer. 
Believe it or not, summer is also the time where you should be planting those cold weather vegetables for late autumn harvest. It can seem strange to be planting broccoli and cauliflower in August, but it is the right thing to do! 

Fall
Fall in love with autumn

The depth of reds, yellows, and browns makes autumn an absolutely breathtaking season. Autumn perennials awake from their long slumber to surprise us, and mums, cabbages, and kale complete the perfect image of the North-Eastern climate. Fall pansies provide delicate accents throughout your garden and can come visit you again in the spring. Cooler temps also mean that you are more likely to spend added time enjoying your garden comfortably, so make sure it is a beautiful place to be! 
Autumn is also the time to be planting those beautiful bulb flowers for spring blooms, such as daffodils, tulips, and crocus. If you forget, don't worry! We will have finished bulbs available for purchase in the spring. 

Winter
Beauty in the stillness

Believe it or not, the winter garden is still a lovely and important landscape. You may opt to not trim back perennials in order to provide texture and contrast across an otherwise white backdrop. Evergreens such as cypress and junipers provide much needed color for the eyes, and the popping red of ilex and holly berries are sought after by many.
Feel free to bring in pictures of your yard for us to give recommendation on how to create visual interest in your garden for winter. 

Annuals

Annuals are a wonderful, colorful, and integral part of the plant world. By definition, an annual is a plant that flowers and dies in the same year or growing season. Some flowering plants are perennials in warm climates and annuals in colder climates such as the Calibrachoa plant.
Annuals only last one year but they provide so much color that they are an integral part of most landscapes. They provide color in shady areas and other small spaces in the landscape. The multitudes of color you can obtain from nursery grown annuals can just light up a yard.
Colorful annuals are available for shady, sunny, or partial sunny areas.
​They can be containerized, planted in beds, placed in window sill boxes, and hanging baskets.

ANGELONIA
Angelonia is also called summer snapdragon, and once you get a good look at it, you’ll know why. It’s the perfect plant for adding bright color to hot, sunny spaces. This tough plant blooms all summer long with spirelike spikes of blooms. While all varieties are beautiful, keep an eye out for the sweetly scented selections.
Varieties: Assorted colors
Container size: 4 1/2″ pot

ALSTROEMRIA
Alstroemerias are best known as cut flowers, where their rich colors and lovely veining grace many a vase, where they’ll last for as long as two weeks. But they can also be grown in the garden, where they do best in light, well-drained soil. They bloom freely through the summer and come in almost all shades of the rainbow except true blue.
Varieties: Red, Orange, Lavender
Container size: 9″ pot

BEGONIA
Annual begonia is about as easy as it gets. It does well in a variety of conditions, but to keep it its most luxuriant best, give it light shade; rich, well-drained soil; and ample water. It also loves plenty of fertilizer, so be generous. Plant annual begonias in spring after all danger of frost has passed.
Varieties: Dragon Wing (Red, Blue), Lady Francis, Gum Drop (asst colors), Baby Wing (asst colors)
Container size: 4 1/2″ pot

CELOSIA
There are few flowers as showy as celosia. Whether you plant the plumed type, which produces striking upright spires, or the crested type, which has a fascinating twisted form, you’ll love using celosia in bouquets. The flowers are beautiful fresh, but you can also dry them easily.
Varieties: Assorted colors
Container size: 4 1/2″ pot

CLEOME
It’s amazing that the tall, dramatic spider flower is only an annual. Once temperatures warm up, it zooms to 4 feet or more plants very quickly and produces large balls of flowers with fascinating long seedpods that whirl out from it. Cut it for vases, but be aware that the flowers shatter easily after a few days.
Varieties: Assorted colors
Container size: 4 1/2″ pot

COSMOS
You can depend on this cottage-garden favorite to fill your garden with color all season long. The simple, daisylike flowers appear in cheery shades on tall stems that are great for cutting. The lacy foliage makes a great backdrop for shorter plants, as well. Cosmos often self-seeds in the garden.
Varieties: Assorted colors
Container size: 4 1/2″ pot

GERANIUM
Geraniums have been a gardener’s favorite for well over a century. The old-fashioned standard for beds, borders, and containers, geranium is still one of the most popular plants today. Traditional bedding types love hot weather and hold up well to dry conditions; many offer colorful foliage.
Varieties: Assorted colors
Container size: 8″ Hanging Basket

GERBER DAISY
Gerbera daisies are so perfect they hardly look real. They bloom in nearly every color (except true blues and purples) and produce fantastically large flowers on long, thick, sturdy stems. They last for a week or more in the vase, making them a favorite for fresh-flower bouquets.
Varieties: Assorted colors
Container size: 6 1/2″ pot

LANTANA
If you have a hot, baked spot, lantana is your answer. This hardworking plant not only thrives with little moisture and in full, unyielding sun, it does so with ease. In fact, lantana is a flower that seems to have it all: It produces an abundance of brightly colored flowers all summer and fall.
Varieties: Assorted colors
Container size: 4 1/2″ pot

IMPATIEN, NEW GUINEA
Like their more common cousins, New Guinea impatiens provide hard-to-find brilliant color in shade. And it’s not just the flowers. The foliage is often brilliantly, exotically colorful as well. These tropical plants really shine in containers, where they thrive in the perfect soil and drainage.
Varieties: Assorted colors
Container size: 4 1/2″ pot

PORTULACA
Moss rose is the gardener’s choice for the hottest, driest, most problematic spots in the garden — even a clay strawberry pot in full sun. This succulent plant thrives in heat, drought, and lousy soil, rewarding gardeners with nonstop color.
Varieties: Assorted colors
Container size: 4 1/2″ pot

SALVIA
There are few gardens that don’t have at least one salvia growing in them. Whether you have sun or shade, a dry garden or lots of rainfall, there’s an annual salvia that you’ll find indispensable. All attract hummingbirds and are great picks for hot, dry sites.
Varieties: Cathedral Deep Blue
Container Size: 4 1/2″ pot

SCAEVOLA
With such pretty blue flowers, you’d think this annual would be rather fussy or delicate. Instead, this durable Australian native takes the heat without wilting and produces an abundance of lavender-blue or white fan-like blooms all summer.
Varieties: Blue, White
Container Size: 4 1/2″ pot

SUNPATIENS
SunPatiens® is a revolutionary new hybrid impatiens bred by Sakata. These remarkable plants represent a breakthrough in flower breeding: robust, sun–loving, heat–loving impatiens that thrive in full sun or part shade and deliver continuous color from spring through frost.
Varieties: Assorted colors
Container Size: 6″ Pot

TORENIA
Try this enchanting little wishbone flower, also dubbed clown flower for its vividly marked flowers that are said to resemble the face of a clown. It’s a wonderful, relatively new choice for shade. The flower shape resembles tiny snapdragons, mouths wide open and showing off delicate throats marked with a contrasting color.
Varieties: Moon (asst colors)
Container size: 4 1/2″ pot

VINCA, FLOWERING
You’ve gotta love annual vinca — it really delivers. It will tolerate a wide variety of conditions and still keep it up with almost unreal-looking, glossy green flowers and pretty pink, lavender, or red flowers that look like tiny parasols. Whether the summer is dry or wet, hot or cold, vinca plugs along unfazed.
Varieties: Assorted colors
Container size: 4 1/2″ pot

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Perennials

Perennials is a term that describes what many gardeners and homeowners strive for, which is a plant that comes back every spring. There are perennial plants that can meet just about every need a landscape has. Perennials range from low growing plants to tall growing plants, from those that produce colorful flowers to those that provide visual pleasure with glowing seed heads, such as those exhibited by some ornamental grasses.
Perennial gardens need to be planted only once.
Perennials tend to die back to the ground each winter. Perennial plants generally have fewer major problems than annuals and are sustainable with lower care and maintenance needs.

ACHILLEA
Achillea is one of those plants that give a wildflower look to any garden. In fact, it is indeed a native plant and, predictably, it’s easy to care for. In some gardens, it will thrive with almost no care, making it a good candidate for naturalistic plantings in open areas and along the edges of wooded or other wild places.
Varieties: Fireland, Summer Bernies, Summer Pastels, Terra Cotta
Container size: 1 Gallon pot

AJUGA
Ajuga is one of the most indispensable groundcovers around. It has many uses and looks great much of the year. Also known as carpetweed or bugleweed, ajuga forms a 6-inch-tall mat of glossy leaves that always seem to look neat and fresh. In many cases, the leaves are colored with shades of purple, white, silver, cream, or pink.
Varieties: Bronze Heart, Burgundy Glow
Container size: 1 Gallon pot

ANEMONE
Anemones are lovely, delicate flowers that dance atop slender stems, giving them their poetic common name — windflower. Depending on the type, anemones bloom in spring, summer, or through fall with pretty, slightly cupped flowers in rose, pink, or white rising over distinctive, deeply lobed foliage.
Varieties: September Charm, Sylvestris
Container size: 1 Gallon pot

BUDDLEIA
Drenching the air with a fruity scent, butterfly bush’s flower spikes are an irresistible lure to butterflies and hummingbirds all summer long. The plants have an arching habit that’s appealing especially as a background in informal flower borders. In warmer climates, butterfly bushes soon grow into trees and develop rugged trunks that peel.
Varieties: Black Knight, Nanho Blue, Royal Red
Container size: 1 Gallon pot

COREOPSIS
One of the longest bloomers in the garden, coreopsis produces (usually) sunny yellow daisylike flowers that attract butterflies. Coreopsis, depending on the variety, also bears golden-yellow, pale yellow, pink, or bicolor flowers. It will bloom from early to midsummer or longer as long as it’s deadheaded.
Varieties: Creme Brulee, Moonbeam, Tequilla Sunrise
Container size: 1 Gallon pot

ECHINACEA
Purple coneflower is so easy to grow and attractive and draws so many birds and butterflies that you simply must grow it, if you have the room. Valued for its large sturdy daisylike flowers with dropping petals, this prairie native will spread easily in good soil and full sun. It is bothered by few pests or diseases.
Varieties: Big Sky, Big Sky Sunrise, Primmadonna White, Rube Star
Container size: 1 Gallon pot

GAILLARDIA
Blanket flowers are wonderfully cheerful, long-blooming plants for hot, sunny gardens. They produce single or double daisy flowers through most of the summer and well into fall. The light brick red ray flowers are tipped with yellow — the colors of Mexican blankets.
Varieties: Burgundy, Goblin
Container size: 1 Gallon pot

HEUCHERA
Exciting new selections with incredible foliage patterns have put coralbells on the map. Previously enjoyed mainly for their spires of dainty reddish flowers, coralbells are now grown as much for the unusual mottling and veining of different-color leaves. They enjoy humus-rich, moisture-retaining soil.
Varieties: Fireworks, Palace Purple, Stormy Seas
Container size: 1 Gallon pot

HYDRANGEA
This shade-loving beauty offers huge bouquets of clustered flowers, in various arrangements from mophead to lacecap, from summer through fall. Varieties differ in size of plant and flower panicle, flower color, and blooming time. PeeGee hydrangeas grow into small trees; the flowers turn russet and cling into winter.
Varieties: All Summer Beauty, Glowing Ambers, Hornli, Mathilda Gutge, Nikko Blue, Penny Mac, Pia, Snow Queen, Blue Billow, Kiyoosumi, Enziandom
Container size: 1 Gallon pot

MONARDA
Bee balm is a wonderful plant for attracting butterflies and helpful bees. This prairie native has fascinating-shape flowers in jewel tones of red, pink, purple, and white, surrounded by dark bracts. They grow atop substantial clumps of dark foliage. The aromatic foliage is sometimes used for making tea.
Varieties: Blue Stocking, Colrain Red, Marshalls Delight
Container size: 1 Gallon pot

PHLOX
Phlox are one of those bounteous summer flowers any large sunny flowerbed or border shouldn’t be without. There are several different kinds of phlox. Garden and meadow phlox produce large panicles of fragrant flowers in a wide assortment of colors. They also add height, heft, and charm to a border.
Varieties: Pan – Blue Paradise, Franz Sherbert, Laurea, Orange Perfection, Starfire
Container Size: 1 Gallon pot

RUDBECKIA
Add a pool of sunshine to the garden with a massed planting of black-eyed Susan. From midsummer, these tough native plants bloom their golden heads off in sun or light shade and mix well with other perennials, annuals, and shrubs.
Varieties: Goldstrum, Indian Summer
Container Size: 1 Gallon pot

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Herbs

If variety is the spice of life, we’ve got you covered in two ways. First, our huge selection of herb plants for sale includes all of your standard favorites, as well as exotic and rare varieties. As for spice, no kitchen is complete without the freshest seasonings. Nothing enhances flavors like fresh herbs.
If you grow your own herbs, you’ll have a fresh supply always ready to be snipped, available all year if you grow them in your pots indoors too. Herb plants are considerably less expensive than packaged fresh herbs or even dried herbs found in the supermarket, not to mention that they have more intense flavor and higher nutritional value.

CHIVES
Chives grace the garden with bright green stems and pinkish-purple pom-pom blooms — all of which offer a distinctly mild onion flavor. Versatile and easy-growing, chives thrive in containers and also form an eye-catching edging in planting beds. After chives flower, cut plants and trim portions of the clump at a time.
Varieties: Onion
Container size: 4″ Pot

CILANTRO
With bright green, fern-textured stems, cilantro holds its own in beds or pots, forming a clump of sturdy, flavorful stems. Every part of cilantro promises a taste treat: spicy leaves, pungent seeds (known as coriander), and tangy roots. Many grow cilantro for the foliage, which boasts a citrusy bite that enlivens Mexican and Thai cooking.
Varieties: Coriander
Container size: 4″ pot

DILL
For versatility in the garden, it’s hard to beat beautiful, easy-grows-it dill. This herb fills a planting area with a fountain of graceful, delicate foliage. Flat flower heads beckon butterflies, bees, and other good bugs. Snip tasty foliage to flavor home-cooked fare, from potatoes, to soups, to egg dishes.
Varieties: Fernleaf
Container size: 4″ pot

LAVENDER
Lavender fills the early-summer garden with sensory delights: beautiful purple-tone blooms atop foliage that oozes fragrance on a sunny afternoon. Every part of the plant is infused with aromatic oil, making this a choice herb to place along pathways or near outdoor seating areas so you can savor the fragrance.
Varieties: Hidcote
Container size: 4″ pot

LEMON BALM
Lemon balm’s quilted green leaves release a delicious lemony aroma when brushed, making it the perfect fragrant addition to plantings near patios and garden benches. Low-maintenance lemon balm thrives in beds or containers, as long as roots sink into well-drained soil.
Varieties: Plain
Container size: 4″ pot

OREGANO
Savor true Italian flavor with garden-fresh oregano. This sprawling herb pumps up the taste in tomato sauces, pizza, and Mediterranean cuisine. An easy-growing perennial, oregano thrives in planting beds or containers. Plant it in a pot with rosemary, sage, and thyme.
Varieties: Plain
Container size: 4″ pot

ROSEMARY
Known as a symbol of remembrance and friendship, rosemary fills a garden with aroma, flavor, and activity — busily pollinating bees love the blooms. This herb comes in various forms, from stiff and upright, ideal for a hedge planting, to mounded and spreading, perfect for scrambling along a slope or wall.
Varieties: Barbecus, Hill Hardy, Prostrates, Tuscon, Upright
Container size: 4″ pot

SAGE
You just can’t overdo sage in the garden. This perennial herb earns its keep with fast-growing ways, beautiful blooms, and a flavor deer find distasteful. Once established, plants shrug off drought, although it’s wise to keep plants well-hydrated through the hottest parts of summer if you want a steady supply of supple foliage.
Varieties: Common
Container size: 4″ pot

THYME
Introduce scenery from the Greek Isles to your garden with lush plantings of thyme. This sun-loving, drought-tolerant herb carpets hillsides in Greece, thriving in well-drained soil. Drought conditions concentrate the aromatic oils in thyme, so the drier your growing conditions, the better.
Varieties: Common
Container size: 4″ pot

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Vegetables

There’s nothing quite as good as eating home grown veggies from the garden. While growing garden vegetables may seem daunting at first, learning how to grow vegetables yourself shouldn’t be intimidating. Most vegetable plants are easy to grow, and there are numerous types of vegetables that can be grown to satisfy even the pickiest of eaters.
The rich taste of a sun-warmed, vine-ripened tomato or the crisp snap of a just-picked peppers are just two of the many joys awaiting the home vegetable gardener.
We offer the finest plants and best in variety.

CUCUMBER
Cucumbers are easy to grow, and just one plant will produce armloads of the crunchy, refreshing fruits. Use them to make cooling salads all through the hot summer. Add homegrown cucumbers to mixed leafy salads or mixed chopped vegetable salads. And try your hand at pickles .. the canned type that Grandma used to make.
Varieties: Burpless, Pickling, Tasty Green
Container size: 4″ pot

EGGPLANT
Eggplant is not only a wonderfully international food, it’s also versatile. Add it to soups and pasta dishes or use it as the basis for hearty meatless casseroles and other entrees. Vegetarians value its rich, deep flavor as an excellent substitute for meat.
Varieties: Bianca, Black Beauty, Ichiban, Little Finger
Container size: 4″ pot

PEPPER
Bell peppers are being hailed as a superfood, low in calories, high in flavor, and Vitamins A, C, and other nutrients. They are delicious in salads, stir-fries, soups, stews, and roasted or grilled. Avoid planting them too early in the growing season, and protect plants from cold temperatures.
Varieties: Bell (Green, Yellow, Red), Jalapeno, Sweet Aruba, Sweet Banana
Container size: 4″ pot

TOMATO
What could taste better than a perfect red garden tomato still warm from the sun? Tomatoes are the most popular homegrown vegetable for good reason. Grow lots because not only will you eat them, but they can save you big on your grocery bill, especially if you freeze them whole or make spaghetti sauce.
Varieties: Better Boy, Brandywine pink, Early Girl, Golden Boy, Grap, Roma Plum, Supersweet 100
Container size: 4″ pot

ZUCCHINI
Zucchini is the most well-known summer squash, but are other types worth growing, such as crookneck squash. Useful, all-purpose vegetables, summer squash of all sorts are delightful sliced or chopped into salads of all kinds, including pasta salads. It adds a texture and crunch all its own.
Varieties: Green
Container size: 4″ pot

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Early Spring

Early spring flowers can bring the color and warmth of spring to your garden weeks ahead of schedule. Not only do early spring blooming flowers add beauty, they can be helpful in attracting bees and other pollinators to your yard early in the season, which encourages them to make your garden a regular place to visit for them.
In order to prepare for early spring gardening, dedicated green thumbs should begin to plan in the cold months of mid-winter. One must be careful regarding what plants he or she does decide to include in an early spring garden, however, as many plants cannot survive the initial, still-chilly spring months.

CINERARIA
Cineraria produces blooms of brilliant blue with white ring. Mounded. Best grown in a cool season. Good for indoor decor at Thanksgiving and Christmas. Perennials in their native climates, they are used as annuals in most American gardens. Provide half to full shade during the growing season when grown outdoors.
Varieties: Jester (Blue Bicolor, Mix, Pure Blue)
Container size: 6″ pot

PANSY
From tiny, cheerful Johnny jump-ups to the stunning 3-inch blooms of Majestic Giant pansies, the genus Viola has a spectacular array of delightful plants for the spring garden. They’re must-haves to celebrate the first days of spring since they don’t mind cold weather and can even take a little snow and ice!
Varieties: Delta (Pure Orange, True Blue), Matrix (Blue Frost, Blue Blotch, Blotch Mix, Mix, Mix Raspberry, Morpheus, Purple Blotch, Rose Blotch, Sunrise, White Blotch, Yellow Blotch), Mambo (Orange Face)
Container size: Bedding flat

PRIMROSE
Take a walk down the primrose path and you’ll never look back! Primroses are a classic cottage flower and are popular with collectors. They covet the hundreds of different primroses available, especially some of the tiny rare alpine types. Their basal rosettes of oval leaves are often puckered or are very smooth.
Varieties: Primula Acaulis
Container size: 4 1/2″ pot

RANUNCULUS
Ranunculus comes in a variety of colors. Shades of orange, yellow, peach, pale pink, hot pink, red and white ranunculus flowers can be seen. Bouquets of ranunculus look very beautiful, and hence these flowers are very popular as wedding flowers. During spring weddings, one can find fresh ranunculus flowers of various colors.
Varieties: Bloo (Mix, Pure Yellow, Tangerine, White), Mach (Mix Bicolor)
Container size: 4 1/2″ pot

VIOLA
Who can’t help but adore violets? Their cheerful “faces,” often whiskered or otherwise marked, brighten the dreariest day in spring. Use them at the front of beds or borders as edging plants, as bedding plants, in containers and window boxes, in herb gardens, in wild gardens and in rock gardens too.
Varieties: Sorbet (Beaconsfield, Mix Duet, Mix Ocean Breeze, Orange Delight, Yellow Babyface, Yellow Frost)
Container size: Bedding Flat