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Celebrate Maine Greenhouse & Nursery Day and Save 15%!
When it comes to gardening in Maine, your local garden center knows both the joys and challenges. That's because they garden where you garden.Join us Saturday, May 1st as more than 30 locally owned and operated garden centers throughout the state celebrate the first annual Maine Greenhouse & Nursery Day.
A Maine Tradition
Environmental Horticulture is a major sector of Maine agriculture, with more than 1,010 firms in the industry. It currently represents $253 million and provides jobs for over 12,000 people. Plant production and sale are a significant part of the industry; more than half of the plants sold in Maine are grown right here in the state, from start to finish.
Horticulture represents a significant economic impact. Shopping at a local, family-owned enterprise supports our Maine economy.
Nursery Sale
To celebrate the occasion, participating businesses will be offering special events and sales all day long to highlight gardening in Maine.
Here at Estabrook's, you'll have the opportunity to get your spring planting started early. ALL trees, shrubs, perennials, roses and groundcovers will be 15% OFF all day long on May 1st.
Why Wait?
But that's not all - as a preferred customer and newsletter subscriber, you can take advantage of this special one-day sale RIGHT NOW.
Simply visit any of our locations in Yarmouth, Scarborough or Kennebunk and provide your phone number at checkout to receive your 15% savings immediately. You'll have two full days of shopping before anyone else to grab the best from our nursery.
We can't wait to see you this weekend!
Are You Mom's Favorite?You can be, with a gift card from Estabrook's for Mother's Day! Beat the rush and order your gift cards securely online. We'll send them to you or directly to Mom at no additional charge in time for Mother's Day on May 9th. |
Tackle a Tough Spot with Jeepers Creepers
Jeepers Creepers are an amazing collection of easy-to-grow groundcovers that will fill in
those areas you just don't know what to do with. Offering fragrance, beauty and an accelerated growth habit, these plants can provide superb groundcover, act as a lawn subsitute or
finish off patios or walkways with a flourish.When deciding which Jeepers Creepers groundcovers to use, we recommend taking into consideration how you're going to use them and where they will be growing. Follow these helpful tips when making your selection:
Foot Traffic
If you plan to walk on your Jeepers Creepers plants, choose varieties suggested for traffic tolerance. We recommend that plants not be walked on until established, or whenever the soil is soggy wet.
You'll find the following traffic classifications on each Jeepers Creepers tag:
- No Foot Traffic: Plants are either too tall to walk on, or too delicate to withstand it.
- Light: Walking directly on these once or twice a week will not cause serious damage.
- Moderate: Withstands being walked on once a day or so, and are generally fine between paving stones.
- Heavy: Nearly as durable as a regular lawn! The low mat habit allows for easy travel.
Light ConditionsLike all plant selections, careful appraisal of light conditions will increase your success. Scout your area and use this guide to help you determine how much (or little) sunlight it gets.
- Full Sun: Think full, all day sun, with at most only a few hours of shade in the early morning or late afternoon.
- Part Shade: Direct sun hits the area for only about half the day such as morning sun followed by afternoon shade, or vice versa. This also includes dappled shade caused by a tall canopy of small-leaved deciduous trees that offers filtered light with occasionally beams of direct light.
- Full Shade: A common condition under large-leaved trees, evergreens or on the north side of buildings. Note that under dense evergreens and large deciduous trees conditions of extreme dry shade can make it difficult to grow anything without regular deep, weekly watering all season long.
The most critical thing to know about your soil is what it's like during the heat of summer. If your soil generally dries out in July and August and you can't supply extra water, choose drought-tolerant selections.
If you can supply deep regular weekly watering during dry spells, select plants for normal (average) moisture conditions. If the area remains constantly moist through the growing season, select moisture-loving varieties.
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