Gardening Tools & Resources

Keeping your beautiful garden safe from deer is as simple as choosing the right plants.  Enjoy full-color photographs of 216 pages of plants.  This inspiring guide offers everything a plant lover with a deer problem needs to know.  Soft Cover

Mike Shoup's latest book is a large (12 x 12) coffee table book that addresses the personality of the rose. Interestingly, rose varieties have various personalities or persona that can influence their garden usage. These qualities are a creative tool for the gardener intent on providing the right rose for the right garden setting. This book, as well as addressing the practical nature of their usefulness, delves into this nature. 208 Pages Full-color Hardcover

Plant a bit of Texas.

The ideal planting time for Bluebonnets is summer to fall as the hard seed coat needs that time and weather exposure to break down.  Incorporate seed into prepared beds or bare areas excavated in a field.  Seed will germinate by late fall and winter with blooms to follow in the spring.  Bluebonnets will naturalize from subsequent seed for years to come.

 Plant one ounce (approx 1000 seeds) into a 100 X 200 square foot area making sure the seed has good soil contact.

Ideal for ages 7 to adult, Piccolori is perfect for many ages and experience levels of artist. With 24 different pages color in, a beautifully illustrated guide that provides helpful hints, and bonus practice cards, you’re sure to have fun with this coloring set! Also includes 12 colored pencils, 1 graphite pencil, a sharpener and an eraser.

Simply write on these copper swing labels with a ballpoint pen for the permanent indentation of your plant names then secure to your plant with the included copper ties. 

10 copper labels complete with copper ties 

Deadheading your roses will be a snap with these mini-shears that fit perfectly in your pocket. Spring action handles with carbon steel blades make clean cuts every time. Ideally suited for thinning seedlings, pinching back annuals and even harvesting herbs. Comes with its own plastic sleeve. Color varies by availability.

This is the perfect all-inclusive gardening log for everyone!  One journal for all your plants.  Guided format includes location, planting instructions, water requirements, sunlight, bloom date, pest problems and so much more.  The back side of each page leaves space for notes and photo/plant tag/seed packet/drawing.  Printed in the USA.  Acid free, recycled paper.  Durable hard cover design.   200 pages

7.5 inches X 9 inches

The feel and dexterity of premium, quality goatskin is what these gloves provide.  Your hands will love the soft, supple feel of the goatskin while your arms will thank you for the protection the cowhide affords.  Full coverage up to the elbow makes thorns, prickles or anything sharp a harmless annoyance.  Now there is no excuse to not prune or train your roses, carry in the firewood, or take the cat to the vet. 

(Fits true to size)

Lever Loops are an easy, convenient way to secure growing stems to canes, mesh and wire. Just squeeze the "handles" of loop together to open the loop for use and squeeze again to remove. 50 dark green loops of two sizes per bag. Can be reused.

Our field crew use this pruner on a daily basis and love them. They are lightweight and comfortable to use. These pruners are ideal for fruit thinning, cutting flowers, harvesting vegetables and fruits and even Bonsai! For the money, we find they do the trick quite nicely.

The interest in pegged roses has been increasing over the last few years and we are now asked for pegging hooks on a regular basis. By using these hooks to secure rose canes to the ground, not only does the bloom production increase, but a unique focal display is created. One package contains 12 hooks.

This 8-3-5 rose fertilizer is an all purpose food for your garden, especially useful for your roses.  It provides a slow release of nitrogen.  This product is safe and can be applied often during the growing season.  We have had good results with the use of this product.

Take the identity guess work out of your garden with these ten durable zinc markers. Built to last, they are a two part system consisting of an eleven inch "U" stake and a three and a half inch metal name plate which provides ample writing space.  You can use a sharpie, permanent marker or pencil to write on name plate and it is tilted for ease of assembly and reading.

Satin-finished stainless steel markers will NEVER rust or break.  Soft scalloped edge design with a large writing surface.   Five markers in package

6.5 inches tall by 3.5 inches wide

 5 for $10.95

Thanks to the resurgence of home and community gardening, more and more people are discovering the pleasure of biting into a sun-ripened tomato picked right off the vine, the earthy smell of freshly turned soil, and the cheerful harbingers of spring such as daffodils, irises and pansies. But they are also discovering that gardening can be a heck of a lot of work. So what happens when keeping up with the weeds turns into a full time job? What do you do when gardening becomes stressful? Slow Gardening to the resuce! Inspired by Slow Food, an international movement that promoted local food systems and biological and cultural diversity, the slow-gardening approach can help us all apprecaite and enjoy our gardens more, year in and year out. Felder Rushing, a well known and truly one of a kind garden expert, offers this practical yet philosophical approach to gardening - one that will help you slow down, take stock of your yard, and follow your own creative whimsy in the garden. Softcover

This flexible green tape is the ideal tie for training climbing roses. It snaps off easily to the length you want and holds the canes securely, but it expands enough so that there’s no risk of choking off new growth.150 ft. per roll.

While exploring outside one day, a little boy named Liam discovers a struggling garden and decides to care for it. As time passes, the colorful garden spreads throughout the dark, gray city, transforming it into a lush, green world.

This is an enchanting tale with environmental themes and beautiful illustrations that become more vibrant as the garden blooms. Red-headed Liam can also be spotted on every page, adding a clever seek-and-find element to this tale.