Popes' Gardens - www.popesgardens.com

SPECIAL OF THE WEEK:
Look for our "Special of the Week" to return come spring!

WE CARRY PENNFIELD FEED NOW
The feed chosen to go to the Olympics is now available in your own backyard!  We carry a full line of Pennfield feed now:  Horse, Rabbit, Chicken, Duck, Turkey, Wildlife and Animal (Cattle, Equine, Goat & Sheep), & cracked and whole corn.  Please use us for all of your animal feed needs! (856) 767-3343.  We offer a 2% cash discount on feed.

Cash Discount -  2% on feed

ANIMALS FOR SALE
Turkeys For Sale:  $100 pair
Call Ducks For Sale:  $10 each
Zebra & Society Finches For Sale:  $15 each
White Doves For Sale:  $15 each
Peacocks For Sale:  $200 pair  (Baby Peacock $25)
Chickens For Sale:
Silkie Chicks:  $10 ea.
Starter Pullets:  Rhode Island Reds - $15
Barred Plymouth Rocks - $15 each
Barred Plymouth Rock Roosters - $15 each
Bunnies For Sale:  Holland Lop & Mini Rex - $25 each
Parakeets For Sale - $15 each
 

"BEST OF SJ READERS' POLL"
SJ Magazine named us best Garden Center in South Jersey 2010!  Thanks to everyone that helped to make it possible!  We know our customers are the best!  Thanks for telling us so!
 

QUANTITY DISCOUNTS
Attention all gardeners & landscapers.  We offer a volume discount on our 1 gallon perennials & shrubs.  Regularly 6.29 each
50 or more - 15% discount
100 or more - 20% discount
Must be purchased and picked up all at one time.

NEW PERENNIALS FOR 2011
Baptisia 'Purple Smoke'- Purple False Indigo
Campanula 'La Belle' - Deep blue, fully double bell flower
Coreopsis 'Cosmic Eye' - Red & yellow flowered Tickseed
Cimicifuga 'Brunette' - Purple leaved Bugbane or Snakeroot
Echinacea 'Sombrero' - Hot Pink Dwarf Coneflower
Fargesia rufa 'Oprins selection' - Great Wall -18' Tall (Hedge) Clumping Bamboo
Geranium 'Pink Penny' - Pink flowering cranesbill geranium
Hakonechloa 'All Gold' - Gold Forest Grass
Hakonechloa 'Fubuki' - New variegated Japanese Forest Grass
Hosta 'Fragrant Bouquet' - 1998 Hosta of the Year
Hosta 'June' - Blue leaf with creamy gold center Hosta
Hosta 'Stained Glass' - 2006 Hosta of the Year!  Deeply veined, bright gold leaves edged in dark green
Lamium 'Red Nancy' - Silver groundcover Nettle, deep pink flowers
Lonicera 'Mandarin' - Orange Honeysuckle Vine attractive to hummers & butterflies
Papaver 'Patty's Plum' - Plum colored Oriental poppy, black eye
Pennisetum 'Cupureum Compactum' - Dwarf Red Fountain Grass
Phlox 'Sherbet Cocktail' - Fascinating dwarf Phlox with yellow & pink coloration
Phlox 'Wendy House' - Compact purple fragrant Phlox
Salvia 'Snow Hill' - White blooming  Salvia or Sage
Sedum 'Chocolate Ball' - Groundcover Sedum changes from chocolate brown in spring to bronze in fall
Sedum ' Purple Emperor' - Dark purple upright Stonecrop
Stokesia ' Colorwheel' - Stokes Aster whose flowers open white, age to lavender, then blue
Tiarella 'Brandywine'- Burgundy-etched leaved Foamflower
Tiarella 'Oakleaf"  - Deep lobed leaved Foamflower for woodlands
Tradescantia 'Sweet Kate' - Golden Spiderwort
Tricyrtis 'Gilt Edge' - Gold edge Toad Lily
For full description of each new perennial,  look under perennial section. 

NEW SHRUBS & TREES FOR 2011
Hydrangea 'Mathilda Gutges' - Mophead pink/blue flowers
Kalmia ' Little Linda'- Miniature Mountain Laurel - pink flowers
Lagerstroemia 'Burgundy Cotton' - Burgundy foliage with white flowers Crepe Myrtle
Lagerstroemia 'Dynamite'- Crepe Myrtle - Fire red flowers
Lagerstroemia 'Red Rocket'- Ruby red flowered Crepe Myrtle
Prunus 'Otto Luyken' - A dwarf 3' Cherry Laurel - Evergreen
Leucothoe 'Rainbow' - Variegated Drooping Fetterbush or Leucothoe - Evergreen
Rhododendron 'Blue Baron' - Small leaved Rhodo - lav/blue flowers
Rhododendron 'Landmark'- Deep fuchsia pink flowering Rhodo, compact 5'-6'
Rhododendron catawbiense 'Album' - White flowering Rhodo 4'-6'
Rhododendron catawbiense 'Grandiflorum' - Purple flowers in spring, 5'-8' tall
Rosa 'Double Knock-Out Pink' - Fully double bubblegum colored shrub rose
Rosa 'White Out' Radwhite - White shrub rose from the creator of the Knock Out Rose
Rosa 'Knock-Out Sunny' - Yellow Knock Out Rose
Syringa 'Boomerang'- Classic purple Lilac, now compact & reblooming, 4' tall PW
Syringa 'Charles Joly'- Lilac, double dark magenta flowers, 12' tall
Thuja plicata 'Green Giant' - Green Giant Arborvitae - Giant fast growing Arborvitae grows to 40' great for privacy
For full description of each new shrub or tree, look under  shrubs, vines and aquatics section.
 

   EEK, A BUG!     

You may see ladybugs and various other "good bugs" around our nursery. We are an "ALL NATURAL" nursery and greenhouse, meaning we do not spray insecticides. NONE, NOT EVER! We buy "good bugs" to eat our "bad bugs" and we have found that this method works quite well for us. So if you see an insect on our plants, don't be afraid. Chances are that it is a beneficial insect just doing its job.

TO KILL APHIDS:  LADYBUGS  - $3.99 package
Such a lovable insect, with a voracious appetite for aphids (which are plant juice sucking monsters!)  Keep refrigerated until ready to release. 
Available May & June

TO KILL INSECTS:  PRAYING MANTIS EGG CASES - $4.99 ea.
For control of many insects.  Fascinating to watch.  Hang egg case in problem garden area or hatch in brown bag and release in the garden.
Available May & June

COMPANION PLANTING

Don't forget Companion planting. Some plants just naturally repel insects. Marigolds are a well know flower that keep away insects. Here are a few others:

Nasturtiums repel white fly and squash bugs.
Asparagus planted with tomato, basil and parsley repel asparagus beetle.
Catnip repels Japanese Beetle and aphids. Plant near Roses!
Cosmos, Chrysanthemums and Marigolds repel Mexican bean beetle from beans.
Plant Garlic with strawberries to repel insect pests.
One clove of garlic planted near roses helps repel aphids and greenflies. The garlic also exudes sulfur, which will kill black spot fungus.

"Companion Planting" at its finest!

SOME NATURAL REMEDIES

NATURAL INSECTICIDE Rhubarb leaves are highly poisonous. After you have made strawberry-rhubarb pie with your rhubarb stems, boil 1 pound rhubarb leaves in a quart of water for 30 minutes, strain, then add a dash of liquid soap to make it stick. Spray it on aphids and spider mites to kill them.

Or if you prefer, Liquefy 1 garlic bulb and 1 small onion, add 1 tsp. powered cayenne pepper, and mix with 1 quart water. Let steep 1 hour, strain and add 1 tablespoon liquid soap. Mix well and spray.

GROUNDHOG REMEDY - Evict groundhogs (Also known as Woodchucks) from under your buildings by placing a bowl of cleaning ammonia in the area they are using. The fumes will drive them away almost immediately, and hopefully they won't return.

LADY BUG & BOX-ELDER BUG NATURAL REMEDY Have Lady Bugs or Box Elders invaded your home. Use your vacuum cleaner to get them up. Release them outdoors.

SLUG PROBLEM Slugs are repelled by crushed eggshells spread thickly around plants. Or pour a bit of stale beer into an old jar lid and leave it in the garden. The slugs will drown happy. Or, leave an old board overnight in the garden. Slugs will hid under them, and come morning, squish away.

INVITE BATS INTO YOUR YARD Bats are some of the gardener's best allies in the war on pests. Each bat consumes between a quarter and half of its weight in insects every night; a single Brown Bat can eat more than 500 mosquitoes in an hour. If you are lucky enough to have even a small colony of twenty or so bats on your property, over twenty thousand mosquitoes, or a smaller number of heavier insects like beetles, gnats, moths, or flies, could be consumed by bats in your vicinity every warm summer night.

Jim Working In The Greenhouse

DEER PROBLEMS

White tailed deer are beautiful animals, but very destructive to flower gardens.  Certain plants are naturally repulsive to deer.  In general, deer avoid eating coarse, fuzzy or spiny plants, or those with strong aromas, especially lemony and minty ones.  Although (as you may already know) if they’re hungry enough, deer will eat just about anything.  Below is a list of some “rarely eaten” good plants to try when gardening with a deer problem.

ANNUALS

                                                                                                            PERENNIALS                               SHRUBS

Homemade Deer Repellent: Dissolve 2 tsp. beef bouillon and 2 well-beaten eggs in 1 gallon water. Let the mixture sit for a few days (preferable outdoors because it will smell terrible) and spray on plants. Reapply after heavy rain. Since deer are herbivores, the beef and egg mixture repulses them. The eggs, particularly, because of their high sulfur content repulses them greatly.

Block their way with fencing.  Deer can't eat what they can't reach!  Sometimes just a well-placed bicycle or wheelbarrow will do the trick.  Be creative and use nets, radios, sprinklers, lights or anything you can think of.  Interplant aromatic herbs and plants to confuse their sense of smell.  Good Luck!

Popes' Gardens - www.popesgardens.com