Pike Nurseries
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Mulch Madness
March is a great time to freshen your mulch.
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Adding a layer of fresh mulch makes your beds look neat and tidy.
What is mulch? Mulch is a layer of material added to the top of the soil surface in garden beds which is most often pine straw, hardwood mulch, pine [...] -
Brazel Berries
Brazel Berries(TM) are a new collection of small fruits that have been developed to be simple to grow, beautiful, compact and delicious. The Brazel Berries collection includes Peach Sorbet (TM) blueberries, Raspberry Shortcake (TM) raspberries, and Jelly Bean (TM) blueberries. Because of their ornamental beauty and compact size, these exciting new [...]
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Miniature Evergreen Container Gardens
The style of container garden, known as trough gardening or English trough gardening began in the mid 1800s. It was popular at the time to collect specimen plants from around the world and the container they decided to best show off their miniature plant collections, was the watering troughs used [...]
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Attract birds this spring with plants and fun, decorative accessories.
Enjoy the impressive sights and sounds this spring as colorful birds migrate north and resident birds energetically prepare for new families. Look around to find the source of that sweet love song ritually ringing to attract a mate.
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Food
Spring is an important time to provide food as fall and winter insects [...] -
50 Shades of Green
Green - grassy, leafy, mossy, lush, verdant, and fresh are all synonyms of green. For as many different words as there are for green there are different shades of green: Apple green, spring green, lime green, emerald, hunter green, blue-green, teal, sea green, pine green, Christmas green, yellow-green, pistachio, olive [...]
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Getting your Spring lawn ready
You should be doing one of two things now to get a weed-free, green lawn:
Applying a Crabgrass Preventer
Reseeding/Re-Sodding
Note: You cannot do both so you have to decide what your lawn needs more
Applying a Crabgrass Preventer -- Early March is the time to apply a crabgrass preventerThis will prevent annual summer weeds [...]
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PIKE NURSERIES TO HIRE 200 SEASONAL EMPLOYEES
Garden Centers to Greet Spring Season with Expanded Crop of Employees
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ATLANTA (February 28, 2013) – Fresh opportunities are in full bloom at Pike Nurseries as locations in metro Atlanta and Greensboro, Ga. prepare to add approximately 200 seasonal associates in the coming weeks. Applicants with a green thumb and strong [...] -
March Lawn and Garden Tips
In the Garden
Start Planting. Start planting or filling in the backbone of your garden with trees, shrubs and vines.
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Prune Camellias. Once camellias are done blooming give them a light pruning and then feed them with EB Stone 100% organic Azalea, Camellia and Gardenia Food.
Scrumptious Strawberries. Mid to late March is [...] -
Blooming Spring Branches
On a cold, gray day like today, its easy to catch yourself daydreaming about spring - the warmer weather, the sunshine, the spring green on new leaves everywhere and the flowers. Spring is on its way and the beautiful early spring blooming trees and shrubs are budded up now. Some [...]
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Edibles and Color
You don’t need a garden to grow edibles! Here’s a gorgeous container filled with tomatoes, basil, rosemary. Sanvitalia spills out and adds a bit of color pizzazz.
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