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All Daylilies
ON SALE
NOW!
20% OFF
Both potted daylilies and bare root orders!
Choose from more than 80 different varieties of daylilies in pots. If you don't see what you like in pots, pick up a copy of our Daylily List and wander through the display gardens. Mark the ones you like and then place an order in our garden center or over the phone. We will dig them fresh for you and your daylilies can be picked up at our garden center or we can ship them right to you.
Can't make it to Viette's during
daylily time?
No worries!
Simply browse our complete
Daylily Catalog and
visit the
daylily photo galleries on our website. It's
almost as good as being here (but not really!)
Choose the ones you want and give us a call
at 800-575-5538.
We will be happy to take your order and give you the
20% discount!
Your daylilies can be shipped to you or you can pick them up here.
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| Plant of the Month |
The Ultimate
Shade Perennial
Hosta or Plantain Lily is one of the best, most versatile, and truly spectacular perennials for the shade or part shade garden. There are literally hundreds of varieties to choose from - almost too many!! There is a Hosta for virtually every niche in your landscape. The diversity is endless! The Viette Farm has over 200 varieties on display in their gardens.
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Hosta dominate the shade
gardens at Viette's
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Why Hosta?
Hosta are normally grown for their foliage effect in the garden and because of their extraordinarily beautiful foliage, they have an extremely long season of interest. Most hosta quickly grow to their mature size in just one or two seasons. In fact, one of the nicest features of hosta is that they only get better and more spectacular with age!
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A huge diversity of hosta can be found in the Viette gardens.
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Hosta can be used in mass plantings as a ground cover, as an edging plant, in the rock garden, or the larger and more unusual varieties can be used as spectacular specimen plants.
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Hosta can make a beautiful ground cover for the shade garden
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Extreme Diversity
The diversity of the hosta foliage is one of its most valuable attributes. Leaves can be all shades of green, blue-green, powder blue, and many are variegated with gold or white. The newer cultivars such as 'June', 'Paul's Glory', montana 'On Stage', 'September Sun', 'Fire and Ice', and 'Wolverine' have increasingly unique variegation. Variegated hosta and gold-leaved hosta like 'August Moon' and 'Sum and Substance' can literally light up a dark corner of a shade garden!
Diversity in leaf texture also makes Hosta really unique. Leaves can range from silky smooth as in 'Royal Standard' and the plantaginea cultivars to heavily corrugated as in 'Love Pat' or the sieboldiana cultivars.
One Tough Perennial!
Hosta are tough, reliable, and easy to grow. They are almost "fool proof" having few disease or pest problems. Slugs can be a problem, chewing holes in the beautiful leaves. Diatomaceous earth, Bonide Slug Magic, or Bayer Advanced Natria Snail & Slug Killer Bait may be sprinkled around the plants to ward off these pests. Many of the newer hosta cultivars have been hybridized to be slug resistant. Cultivars such as 'Bright Lights', 'Krossa Regal', 'Love Pat', the tokudama hybrids, and any varieties that have foliage with heavier substance tend to be more slug resistant.
Unfortunately voles and deer are also "Hosta lovers"! Voles can be discouraged by lining the planting hole and mulching around the stem with Espoma Soil Perfector. Spray your hosta with Bobbex or Hot Pepper Wax to deter deer from their munching.
Viette's Has the Best!
Whether you're a collector of fine Hosta or just love the spectacular show of beautiful foliage, we have the cultivar for you. Last fall we dug and potted up over 60 different varieties from Andre's personal collection. Many of these are still available in our garden center. Some are quite rare and hard to find varieties - after all Andre is one of the original charter members of the American Hosta Society and he has some NICE ones!!
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Hosta 'Night Before Christmas'
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| Gardening Questions? |
Listen to Andre
on the radio every Saturday morning from 8:00-11:00 on
"In the Garden
with Andre Viette"
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Viette Discussion Board
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getting through on
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Tip of the Month
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Gardening Tips to Remember in August!
Brighten your Garden for September ...
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Black Swallowtail
butterfly on Buddleia |
Now is the perfect time to
deadhead your Buddleia (Butterfly bush) for a burst of flowering in September.
- If you just have just a few Buddleia, you can easily use hand shears to remove spent flowers. This causes more flower buds to be produced just below the old blooms.
- If you have lots of Buddleia, you can use hedge shears to roughly shear off all the old flowers. This takes less time and produces the same result!
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Shear back everblooming and reblooming daylilies to stimulate rebloom.
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Now is also a great time to
cut
back the foliage of daylilies that have finished blooming.
- Shear them back from 2"-6" to stimulate fresh new growth for late summer and fall.
- Shearing also stimulates reblooming in the reblooming daylilies such as 'Lemon Lollipop' and 'Pardon Me' and the everbloomers like 'Stella de Oro'.
Neaten up your hosta by trimming off any older leaves that may be turning yellow or have sun-bleached edges.
Deadhead spent blooms of
Phlox,
Salvia,
Scabiosa,
Geranium,
Echinacea, and other summer flowering perennials to encourage them to rebloom.
Cut older Petunia stems back by two-thirds and then fertilize the plants to encourage new growth and blooms.
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Powdery mildew on Phlox |
Hot weather and high humidity encourages fungal diseases like
powdery mildew.
- Cut down and remove foliage of affected plants that have finished blooming. This includes peonies as well as phlox and other perennials. Do not compost!
- Apply Bonide Fung-onil, copper fungicide, or Immunox to treat plants that are still in bloom. Use according to the label directions.
Remove dead, damaged, diseased, and insect-infested stems and foliage whenever you see them.
Lawn Chores for August ...
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Grub Control
August is one of the best times to
control white grubs in your lawn. These grubs are easiest to control now when they are small and actively feeding near the soil surface.
Here are some
grub controls:
- Bayer Advanced Season-Long Grub Control
- Bonide Annual Grub Beater
Fall Feeding
Late August is a good time to begin your fall application of organic fertilizer.
- Before you do this: Take a soil sample and have it analyzed so you can make knowledgeable fertilizer choices. Our friends at MyTurfandGarden.com make it easy! Check it out in their article below ...
- Espoma Fall Winterizer Organic Lawn Food supplies long lasting nitrogen, an essential nutrient that helps to promote a thicker lawn and vigorous growth. It is also fortified with potassium, a nutrient that helps the lawn recover from summer drought conditions, enhances winter hardiness, and helps promote a better spring greening the following season.
Look Ahead to Next Spring ...
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Transplant Spring Bulbs
Late August is a great time to begin lifting and dividing clumps of established spring-flowering bulbs. This will rejuvenate the clumps and increase flowering for next spring as well as providing bulbs to plant in other areas of your gardens.
- Use a garden fork to lift the clumps from the ground.
- Separate the bulbs and replant in fertilized soil in their new location.
- We highly recommend using Espoma Bulb-tone in the planting hole.
Divide Tall Bearded Iris
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Tall bearded iris clumps can be rejuvenated by dividing.
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If your bearded iris have become overgrown and don't bloom well anymore or they have stopped blooming all together, they probably need to be divided.
August is a great time to do this!
Here's what you do:
- Lift the rhizomes from the ground with a digging fork.
- Cut the foliage back to 6" and clean off the soil so you can see the rhizomes.
- Break the rhizomes apart at the joints where they snap naturally in your hands.
- Discard the old, withered rhizomes. These sections will never produce foliage or flowers again.
- Cut away any damaged or rotten parts
- Dip divisions in 10% bleach solution for 3 minutes.
- Allow to dry and replant the divisions leaving the top of the rhizome exposed at the surface.
- Do not mulch.
Read more about
dividing Tall Bearded Iris
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Did You Know?
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All you home owners who take great pride in caring for your lawn and garden please consider a commitment to stop treating your soil like dirt.
Remember, the soil in your yard and garden is the foundation for everything you want to grow. The material we call dirt is alive and what you put into it will determine how well your lawn and garden performs.
Up to now doing soil testing has been a challenge. It's been difficult to have a timely and scientifically based assessment of what nutrients are needed to insure growing success. And even more difficult is how to best translate all the test results into an understandable course of action.
Not to worry. We have great news
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The lawn care professionals at MyTurfandGarden.com have developed a unique, on-line and very straightforward way to test your soil.
It's called
Think Soil
™.
Testing your soil is environmentally the responsible thing to do. More importantly, knowing the results can save you a good deal of hard earned cash. With the results, you'll know exactly how much lime and correct fertilizer to apply to your lawn ... not too much, not too little, but just the right amount to keep your lawn green and disease free.
A Think-Soil™Test from MyTurfandGarden.com will produce the lowest cost insurance policy you will ever purchase. A customized policy designed to save labor and money PLUS you'll be given a customized guide to maintain a lush green lawn and highly productive garden.
So whether you grow flowers, veggies or turf have you ever asked yourself why did all I plant fail to grow? Have you experienced frustration because your investment in seed, fertilizer, lime and other amendments produced disappointing results?
A soil analysis from Think-Soil™ will provide essential information on relative levels of organic matter, pH, lime requirement, cation exchange capacity (CEC), and levels of plant-available nutrients contained in your soil.
The results you'll be given will:
- Encourage plant growth by providing the best lime and fertilizer recommendations.
- Diagnose if there is too little or too much of a particular nutrient present in your soil.
- Promote environmental quality.
- Save money that might otherwise be spent on unneeded lime and fertilizer.
- Most Importantly, doing a Think-Soil™ test can put money in your pocket!
Think-Soil™
is easy to order.
Simply go to
myturfandgarden.com
, and click on Soil Testing in the top menu. Follow the instructions or watch the YouTube video demonstrating how to take a soil sample from your garden or lawn. Within days of placing your order, you'll receive a pre-addressed envelope, a leak proof zip-lock baggie, and detailed instructions.
Simply place your sample baggie into the pre-paid envelope and give it to your postal carrier. Remember there's no charge for shipping.
Once we've received your sample at our lab, the test results will be ready for review within 36 hours. We'll notify you by email as soon as the test results are available.
One of our Think-Soil™ consultants will be available toll free to help with advice on what's needed to remediate your soil. For the first time you'll have the information needed regarding how much product is needed and how best to apply it.
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August Lectures at Viette's
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Join us at the farm for these informative lectures ...
Saturday, August 13 at 1:30 pm
Gardening with Hosta
and Other Shade Perennials
What is shade? Many gardens start in the sun and end up in the shade! Learn all about creating a beautiful shade garden and selecting the proper plants. By following a few easy steps for color and low maintenance, you can make your shady spots come alive with Hosta and other shade loving annuals, perennials, and shrubs. Free lecture
Saturday, August 27 at 1:30 pm Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening  Who doesn't love to see the colorful butterflies and hummingbirds skirting and flitting around the gardens? Did you know there are plants which act as "hosts" for the butterfly larvae and plants which supply nectar for the adult butterflies and hummingbirds? Come to this valuable seminar and discover the marvelous perennials, annuals, and shrubs which will attract these delightful creatures and keep them coming back for years to come! Free lecture
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Join Andre at
The Omni Homestead Resort
18th Annual "In The Garden" weekend
Find your green thumb at our "In The Garden" weekend.
You will learn time-honored gardening tips from top professionals and enjoy your choice of hands-on garden themed classes amid our resort's breathtaking scenery
of this beautiful mountain resort.
Speakers include Craig LeHoullier, gardener, author and educator; Mark Weathington, Director of the JC Raulston Arboretum at NC State University; and Andre Viette, Horticulturalist, author and lecturer.
This fun-filled weekend features:
- Luxurious accommodations
- Breakfast in the main dining room and dinner in any of our restaurants, daily
- Friday night wilderness wonders presentation
- Lectures with coffee breaks
- Membership to the American Horticulture Society
- Choice of two specialty classes
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Travel with Andre and Claire Viette in 2016!
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Budapest on the banks of the Danube
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The Imperial Gardens
and Treasures Tour
September 18 - October 1, 2016
Featuring the Imperial worlds of the
German and Austro-Hungarian Empires
Visit Hungary, Austria,
the Czech Republic, and Germany
Tour highlights include:
Budapest - Enjoy a guided tour of this beautiful city on the Danube; visit a botanical garden; spend a day in the Puszta - land of the Hungarian cowboys and be treated to an equestrian show and gypsy music
Vienna - From Budapest, we will travel up the Danube by hydrofoil boat to Vienna where you will see the famous Lipizzaner Stallions, the
Schönbrunn Gardens, and enjoy a concert of Strauss and Mozart at the
Schönbrunn Palace
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Cruising on Berlin's River Spree
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Prague - We then travel north to Prague by way of the scenic Wachau Valley. Tour Prague, its famous castle, the Charles Bridge, and magnificent gardens. End the day with a three-hour cruise on the Vltava River!
Berlin - On the way to Berlin, we will stop at the city of Dresden. In Berlin, relax on a cruise on the River Spree, enjoy a candlelight dinner and concert at the Charlottenburg palace, and take a walking tour of Berlin. You can even opt to join Andre and Claire on a visit to the largest private botanical garden in Europe.
Andre will give a series of gardening presentations throughout the trip.
Space is limited to 42 persons so this trip will fill up fast!
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