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We’re transitioning with the season, open just weekends now, Friday thru Sunday 10 am – 4 pm as we wind down for the season with a Holiday finale. As usual, we are responsive if you need something when we’re closed – one of us is always checking plants daily, so contact us if you gotta…
One more week…..We wanted to share an update about our opening day for this spring 2019. If you live in the area, you know we still have mucho “frozen” snow to contend with. We still can’t access 75% of our perennial and shrub storage areas – maybe we can in about 3-4 more days.…
Right now as I write this post, winter’s white glove is holding firm, very firm on Central Oregon! Exactly 2 years ago we also had quite a late “big” snow event, so this is not unusual to be happening here, and I know were all hoping it will nudge the moisture content upwards so it…
It’s getting time to ‘Fall into the Grasses’! A FREE class, Sat. Sept 1st 11am -12:30pm Inspiring, easy-to-grow _AND_ pretty low maintenance, perennial grasses are one of the best things you can do to make your landscape beautiful and interesting, and special bonus, they are deer proof! This class will discuss the culture, identification, use,…
Hi there succulent & alpine gardening fans! Come join the gang at Madras Garden Depot for our 6th annual August Hypertufa container classes. You have 2 dates to choose from, Saturday, August 4th (I) and Saturday August 11th (II) from 10am-1:30pm. Each participant in the class will make up to 3 hypertufa rock-like projects, which…
Hello, friends of Madras Garden Depot! We have been busy getting ready for a new year in the garden. The good news is that we had a very mild winter but now spring is very slow in arriving. It keeps hesitating, dragging its feet with every temperature fluctuation, raindrop and gust of wind. Fortunately one of the benefits of this crazy,…
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…