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Your’e Invited to: A Fall Frolic ~ Pre-Holiday Open House & Fruit & Wine Tasting Party! Let’s embrace the Fall and get ready for the Holiday’s at a ‘Fall Frolic’ on Saturday, November 11th from 1 to 4:30 pm at the Madras Garden Depot. We are so excited to be partnering with our local Grocery…
“Summer fades and passes and October comes. We’ll smell smoke then, and feel an unexpected sharpness, a thrill of nervousness, swift elation, a sense of sadness and departure.“ – Thomas Wolfe, ‘You Can’t Go Home Again’, 1947 Hmmmm…wondering why you haven’t heard from us in a bit? Well, we haven’t closed, or moved or taken…
“Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn.” Lewis Grizzard Being a good gardener, but a wretched typist, I make doubly sure that each of my cold fingers carefully touches my keyboard so I don’t have to go back and make (yet another) correction…yes, it’s very, very cold out, but…
….And the good news is that we had a very gradual fall with temperatures that gently eased our plants into a nice dormant state. Hopefully, if you noticed snow dumping off of roofs and piling up on perennials, vines or shrubs, that you attended to them before too much damage ensued. If not, be aware…
This Friday, August 5th from 6 – 8 pm there will be a free ‘Twilight Open Garden’ at the Moran residence in Yarrow, co-sponsored by the Madras Garden Depot & the Madras Garden Club. This garden is about 3 years old and was intentionally designed to display very hardy, but beautiful native and adapted ornamental plants that…
Hey Central Oregon gardening fans! Do you like interesting , all weather planters for tabletops and patios? Please consider joining the gang at Madras Garden Depot for our 5th annual August Hypertufa container classes, Saturday, August 6th and Saturday August 20th from 10am-1:30pm Each participant in the class will make up to 3 hypertufa rock-like…
For those of you not off on a summer adventure somewhere, you might want to check out our pretty cool Summer Sale. Our sale will be in effect through July 26th, and yes, there are a couple of exclusions. All planted “on-the-ground” containers and begonia hanging baskets are not included in the sale, as are…
Things are in full ‘Holiday’ swing up at the Madras Garden Depot. Our handmade wreaths are leaving us for mantles and doors all over central Oregon. We even received an inquiry about shipping a wreath out of state! Our lovely ‘natural’ un-sheared Noble firs are leaving us as well, to grace living rooms with family…
When you decide to ignore the cold fog do some Holiday shopping, consider a visit our nursery where you will find a nice assortment of indoor flowering plants such as cool-weather loving Cyclamen and Zygo (Christmas) cactus & Rabbit’s Foot Fern to bring on Holiday cheer! There is also a small group of hanging glass mini-terrariums…
Got “tender” plants outside you’d like to save? There have been at least 2 “good” frosts reaching down to 25° over the past 8 days – brrrr! In plant-geek technical terms this is referred to as a “killing frost” and if you have plants that are on the tender side, i.e. dahlias, tuberous begonias or…