Welcome back to Bountiful Gardens! It's hard to believe, but Summer is already near! If you've been dreaming of starting your very own herb, veggie & fruit garden, the best time for planting is right now! Fortunately, we've got everything you need and more right here at Bountiful Gardens! When it comes to herbs, we have countless culinary classics like parsley, dill, tarragon, caraway, sage, rosemary, thyme, basil and so much more. Our veggie variety is top-notch as well, with everything from peppers, lettuces, beets, Swiss chard, bok choy, okra, collard greens and asparagus to corn, artichokes, eggplants, cucumbers, squash and beyond. And if you're a fruit fan, you can browse our enormous selection of fruiting trees and shrubs like apples, cherries, pears, peaches, nectarines, figs, gooseberries, lingonberries, currants, raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, maypops, jostaberries, strawberries...the list goes on! And even better--so many of these fruit plants are perennial, meaning you can plant once and harvest forever! If you're short on gardening space, you should look into GreenStalk Gardens vertical planters! These amazing planting companions allow you to take advantage of vertical space so you can grow anywhere! Bountiful Gardens is proud to offer GreenStalk Gardens vertical planters through our website, and even better--you'll get free shipping with your order! These planters come in various tier levels so you can dial it into any space. The planting pockets are deep, and with a 7-tier planter, you can expect to plant a minimum of 48 crops! They're also perfect for ornamental arrangements if that's more your style. The best part? You just add water to the top reservoir and the GreenStalk Garden does the rest with it's special watering system. Check out all the options on our site today! Find GreenStalk Gardens here: https://www.bountifulgardens.com/greenstalk-garden-vertical-planters Again, this is the BEST time to get your garden started, and with so many planting options, there's no excuse to put it off any longer! Come down to any of our three locations for the best plants and friendliest expert guidance--we can't wait to help you exceed your gardening goals! Our Website: https://www.bountifulgardens.com/ Our Rewards Program: https://www.bountifulgardens.com/rewards For Landscape Design Inquiries: Email landscaping@bountifulgardens.com We hope to see you soon!

Welcome back to Bountiful Gardens! Can you believe it? It's already Memorial Day weekend, which means Summer is just around the bend. As we head into June, our nurseries are overflowing with more Summer annuals than you could believe! We have thousands of plants and hundreds of varieties to choose from, which can make picking out the right ones a daunting task. In this video, Dan and Amelia will help you choose the right plants for different scenarios, as well as give a few examples of groupings for interesting container gardens. You'll be learning about plants for deer resistance, hummingbird attraction, full sun, as well as shade. These include Begonias, Salvia, Impatiens, Cuphea, Cleome, Cosmos, Fuchsia, Lantana, Snapdragons, Zinnias and more! Here's a timestamp breakdown for you: Annuals for Full Sun - 0:40 Annuals for Shade - 1:26 Annuals for Hummingbirds - 2:08 Annuals for Deer Resistance - 2:52 Mixing & Matching Annuals - 3:37 Come out to the nursery and start Planting More today! Our Website: https://www.bountifulgardens.com/ Our Rewards Program: https://www.bountifulgardens.com/rewards For Landscape Design Inquiries: Email landscaping@bountifulgardens.com We hope to see you soon!

Welcome back to Bountiful Gardens! In this video, you'll be hearing from Joe, Dan and Amelia about three phenomenal flowering shrubs that thrive in the shade: Rhododendrons, Azaleas & Andromeda. These are some garden classics with plenty to offer, and they're all right here at the nursery! Rhododendrons are prehistoric shrubs whose fossilized pollen has been dated back sixty million years. They burst into bloom in mid-Spring and provide a spectrum of colors in big, bountiful flower clusters. You can find them in red, pink, white, yellow purple and more. Even better, most Rhododendrons are evergreen, so they'll even provide greenery through the winter. Azaleas are also in the Rhododendron genus, and there are over a thousand varieties of them. There are 26 species of Azalea that are native to North America, with New Jersey's native being the Pinxterbloom Azalea. Azaleas are generally deciduous and tend to bloom a bit earlier than their "true" Rhododendron counterparts. Andromeda are beautiful, deer-resistant shrubs that love the shade. Also known as Lily of the Valley shrub, Andromeda has recognizable drooping flowers with a light, sweet fragrance. Leaves are normally a deep glossy green, with new growth coming out with a deep red color. Here are timestamps for you: Rhododendrons - 0:36 Azaleas - 2:14 Andromedas - 3:44 Come out to the nursery and start Planting More today! Our Website: https://www.bountifulgardens.com/ Our Rewards Program: https://www.bountifulgardens.com/rewards For Landscape Design Inquiries: Email landscaping@bountifulgardens.com We hope to see you soon!

Welcome back to Bountiful Gardens! In this week's floral report, we're covering three more amazing woody plants that bring vibrance and life to the Spring landscape: Crabapples, Lilacs & Flowering Dogwood. These are must-haves in any well-thought-out garden. Crabapples have been cultivated for between 4-10,000 years! They're also the ancestor of our common apples, which were bred over countless generations. These trees flowers profusely in mid-spring in shades of white, pink and red. Many cultivars will start their bloom more pink and fade to a white as the blossoms fully open. Crabapples themselves are tart but edible, best used sweetened up in preserves and jellies. Crabapples love full sun and moist, well-draining soil, but can handle a bit of shade, and when Fall rolls around, you can expect some beautiful foliage. Lilacs are the favorite flower of too many people to count! Beloved for their color, beauty and most of all, their signature fragrance, these shrubs and trees bring a calming scent to the landscape in Spring. There are varieties that bloom from early to late Spring, so you can even mix and match for an extended bloom time! Lilacs love moist, well-draining soil in full sun to part shade, and can handle light droughts in a pinch. These are long-lived shrubs--you can expect them to live over 100 years, making them a perfect heritage plant for future generations. They're a fantastic present for Mother's Day! Last up is our native Flowering Dogwood! These small shade-loving trees thrive in moist, well-draining soils and can handle light droughts similarly to Lilac. They prefer to grow in shadier conditions, such as under the canopy of a larger shade tree. The flowers will make use of early Spring light, before the taller trees leaf out, and then the Summer shade will protect Dogwood leaves from direct sun exposure and burning. That said, there are varieties of Flowering Dogwood that perform well in full sun, too. After they bloom, red fruits are produced, which serve as critical nourishment for our native wildlife. Flowering Dogwoods are New Jersey's Memorial Tree, meaning they are often planted to commemorate members of the armed forces. Here are timestamps for you! Crabapples - 0:36 Lilacs - 2:17 Flowering Dogwood - 4:16 Come our to the nursery and start Planting More today! Our Website: https://www.bountifulgardens.com/ Our Rewards Program: https://www.bountifulgardens.com/rewards For Landscape Design Inquiries: Email landscaping@bountifulgardens.com We hope to see you soon!

Welcome back to Bountiful Gardens! The festival of flowers is rolling on, and flowering trees are blooming up a storm right now! This week, we'll be focusing on three types of classic flowering trees that can bring color, texture and even fragrance to your landscape: Flowering Cherries, Magnolias & Eastern Redbud. Flowering cherries come in countless varieties, with some of the most popular being Yoshino & Okame (early spring-blooming) and Kanzan (Kwanzan) & Flagpole (mid spring-blooming. The larger species max out around 40 feet, while smaller ones like Kanzan only grow to 15-20 feet tall and wide. These trees typically thrive in moist, well draining soils and can be planted both in groups or as specimen trees. The blooms range from white to light pink to nearly red, depending on the variety you choose. Magnolias are beautiful, ancient trees and shrubs that evolved on earth before bees existed! Many of them, like Southern Magnolia and Sweetbay Magnolia (both native!) have a gorgeous fragrance when blooming. Most Magnolia petals are also edible, and make a great addition to a coleslaw recipe. Their growth requirements are very similar to those of cherries--full sun to part shade, with moist, well-draining soil. Eastern Redbud is an incredible native plant in the Pea family featuring super-unique blooms that can pop right out of the trunk! These plants help fix nitrogen in the soil, promoting the growth of surrounding plants. The flowers are also edible, and have a soft crunch with a slight sweetness if you pick them at just the right time. These flowers are crucial for early season pollinators like bees, who wake up super hungry after their Winter slumber. Here are timestamps for you! Cherries - 0:35 Magnolias - 2:49 Redbuds - 4:24 You can find TONS of Cherries, Magnolias and Redbuds RIGHT NOW at our Hillsborough and Ewing locations! Come out to the nursery and start Planting More today! Our Website: https://www.bountifulgardens.com/ Our Rewards Program: https://www.bountifulgardens.com/rewards For Landscape Design Inquiries: Email landscaping@bountifulgardens.com We hope to see you soon!

Welcome back to Bountiful Gardens! In this video, we're doing something special: taking a look at blooms out in the wild! Specifically, we're diving into some of our favorite Spring Ephemerals! But what's an Ephemeral? Like their name suggests, Spring Ephemerals are plants that come up in early Spring, while the trees are still bare and the forest floor gets more light and warmth. They have a spectacular bloom, and then they vanish until the following year. Despite their short appearance, their importance to early pollinators and insects is undeniable--they're some of the only food sources for those flower-friends. By planting Spring Ephemerals, you can have blooms in your garden as early as March! Some of the most classic examples of ephemerals are daffodils, tulips, hyacinths and crocus, but there are so many NATIVE ephemerals to choose from that can benefit local wildlife. Ike will introduce you to Dutchman's Breeches, Trillium, Trout Lily, Virginia Bluebells and Bloodroot--five of the finest native Spring Ephemerals you can add to your rich-soiled garden. And for those celebrating this Sunday, Happy Easter!! At our Lawrenceville location, you can find an incredible assortment of custom-planted Easter baskets full of Spring annuals and bulbs, as well as a whole forest of Easter Lilies to wander through--you have to smell it to believe it! And of course, our floral experts are always ready to craft up a fresh arrangement for you! Here are the timestamps: What's an Ephemeral? - 0:14 Dutchman's Breeches - 0:44 Trillium - 1:12 Trout Lily - 1:46 Virginia Bluebells - 2:07 Bloodroot - 2:31 Lawrenceville Easter Update - 3:12 Come down to any of our three locations--Ewing, Lawrenceville or Hillsborough--and start Planting More today! Our Website: https://www.bountifulgardens.com/ Our Rewards Program: https://www.bountifulgardens.com/rewards For Landscape Design Inquiries: Email landscaping@bountifulgardens.com We hope to see you soon!

Welcome back to Bountiful Gardens! Some of our favorite blooms of the year are starting to pop NOW! To celebrate, we hosted another Pollinator Day event at our Hillsborough location alongside the Native Plant Society of New Jersey. After an introduction from Bountiful Gardens founder, Lisa Miccolis, Distinguished Professor Emeritus Steven N. Handel, PhD kicked off the event with a talk stressing the importance of pollinators and how we can protect and support them by planting more native species in our landscapes. Next, Nancy Toro, Somerset County Chapter Leader of the Native Plant Society of New Jersey led the group through some of the best and most important native trees in our ecosystem. Following Nancy was our very own Landscape Designer, Dan Ilkow, MLA, who discussed strategies for removing turf grass and replacing lawns with native meadow spaces. He and Lisa then led the group around our ever-expanding native plant section to get up-close and personal with some favorite specimens. Finally, Lisa and Dan shared some of their best landscape design tips, stressing the importance of starting small and expanding outward. It was a fantastic event, and we're excited to host more workshops and gatherings this year! Keep an eye on our new and improved website for more! Here are some timestamps: Native Plants & Pollinators - 0:37 Spring Ephemerals - 2:05 Bountiful Gardens x East Coast Natives - 2:58 Replace Your Lawn! - 3:27 Recommended Native Species - 4:10 Landscape Design Recommendations - 5:00 Come down to any of our three locations--Ewing, Lawrenceville or Hillsborough--and start Planting More today! Our Website: https://www.bountifulgardens.com/ Our Rewards Program: https://www.bountifulgardens.com/rewards For Landscape Design Inquiries: Email landscaping@bountifulgardens.com We hope to see you soon!

Spring has Sprung here at Bountiful Gardens! In this video, Ike will guide you through some of the best early season annuals, bulbs and custom containers we have here RIGHT NOW in Ewing! When it comes to early season annuals, you'll find Pansies, Ranunculus, Primrose, Bidens, Bacopa, Alyssum, Brachyscome and more. Each has its own value in your garden: Ranunculus is a beautiful centerpiece, while flowers like Bacopa tend to "spill" over the sides of containers creating a wild, cottage garden effect. As far as bulbs, you'll see some gorgeous Daffodils, Hyacinths, Tulips, and Crocuses. Spring is the most exciting time of the year, and we have new plants coming out from our greenhouses each day! These bulbs can all be planted on your property now, or in the Fall, and make an incredible natural investment in your landscape. For a big splash of color, we also offer seasonal baskets of individually potted bulbs and annuals that can be planted outside once they're done beautifying your home for the season. We also have a vast selection of hanging basket arrangements, expertly planted and begging for a spot on your patio. There's so much to see here at Bountiful Gardens this Spring, and we're just getting started! Here are some timestamps for you: Pansies - 0:22 Ranunculus - 0:50 Primrose - 1:21 Spring Bulbs - 1:47 Custom Easter Baskets - 2:21 Bacopa, Bidens, Brachyscome, Sweet Alyssum, Stock - 2:36 Hanging Baskets - 3:28 Come down to any of our three locations--Ewing, Lawrenceville or Hillsborough--and start Planting More today! Our Website: https://www.bountifulgardens.com/ Our Rewards Program: https://www.bountifulgardens.com/rewards For Landscape Design Inquiries: Email landscaping@bountifulgardens.com We hope to see you soon!