You're invited to our
Customer Appreciation Weekend
this Saturday and Sunday!
Watch the video below for a personal "Thank You"
and invitation this event!
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NEW EVENT ADDITION!!!
Pollinator Talk with MaryAnn Fink
Tuesday, June 14 from 6:00 - 8:00 pm
 Join us as we welcome MaryAnn Fink of St. Louis County Park's Pantry Garden program. MaryAnn is the St. Louis Children's Garden Club's Butterfly Ambassador. You will have the opportunity to learn more about the St. Louis County Park's new Pollinator Pantry program. Learn some of the easiest ways to plan our own Butterfly and Bird Bistro Garden "menu" favorites! Come and see how fun it is to turn your garden into a pollinator's picnic or even Flutterby Fine Dining! Who do you want to have at your Café? Our very own pollinators such as Monarchs, Swallowtails, hummingbirds, are eating from Hillermann's Nursery's pantry! This is a simple "meet and greet" highlighting some of the plant staples featured in the Pollinator Pantry Garden brochure! Thank you to St. Louis County Parks Pollinator Pantry Garden program, Project Pollinator & St. Louis Children's Garden Club, hope to see you there!
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Get your "BUZZ ON" Weekend!
Saturday & Sunday June 18 & 19
Take advantage of a 20% off Beer & Wine Making Supplies special for Garden Club members - this weekend only.
Join us for
these activities on
Saturday 6/18/16:
See the Valley of the Flowers Car Show from
10:00 am to 2:00 pm. See beer making demos. Enjoy
samples of
spirits from Pinckney Bend Distillery. Bee Keeping with
Darryl Coats from 10:00 am to Noon. Lunch available from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm at our Monarch Café.
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Father's Day
Sunday, June 19
Hillermann's is Open from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm - We have many great gifts for Dad. You can even bring him by to pick out his own special gift. FREE Jersey Gloves with a purchase - while supplies last.
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Patty's Perennial Picks for the Shade
By Patty Lynch, Plant Buyer
Don't you just love the shade on sunny summer days? Some may think that it is hard to grow attractive plants in the shade. You can have beautiful gardens in shady spots. These plants will actually thrive in your shady garden. They are available in a virtually limitless selection of sizes, shapes & colors.
 Aralia Sun King - This hardy, tropical looking golden beauty will brighten up the shade garden. It emerges with bright golden leaves on contrasting reddish colored stems. If it is given a few hours of sunlight, it will remain golden yellow all summer, in heavier shade it will be more lime green in color.
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Sometimes a tomato doesn't turn out looking like you'd expect. Here are some common tomato quirks you might see that are caused by neither insects nor diseases - and what (if anything) you should do about them.
Oddly shaped fruit. Also called catfacing, this has nothing do with cats; the word describes puckering or misshapen fruit. It can happen to strawberries and tomatoes exposed to temperatures below 50 degrees when in bloom or setting fruit. The cool weather interferes with pollination and can cause the blossom to stick to the developing fruit, which keeps part of the fruit from developing. Meanwhile, another part does develop, so you end up with weird-looking and scarred fruit. It is most common on large-fruited types.
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Bagworms
and Controlling Them
The adult Bagworm is a perennial moth like insect that resides on a number of evergreen plants as well as junipers in its larva stage. It causes extensive damage to plants and trees.
Bagworms winter over as eggs in the bag of the female from the year before. Therefore, your first measure of control can come by hand-picking all the bags from last year. These eggs hatch mid to late May through the end of June. Individual larvae drop from the bag on a strand of silk and either swing onto a branch or sail in the wind to another tree. Immediately upon landing, they build a silk-lined bag, often decorating it with bits of foliage. Larvae remain in the bag feeding, with only the head and thoracic segment extending out.
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Visit the Pot Shop in the Garden Center at Hillermann Nursery & Florist. Watch the artists at work creating hand made pottery and browse our finished pieces. See pottery in all the different stages of creating, firing and glazing!
Pottery Classes: We are enrolling now for adult and kids pottery summer classes! Learn to make your own pottery items with hands on instruction! Supplies are included.
Pottery Parties: This is a great group activity for all ages! Each guest can create hers or his own piece of pottery. We provide all the materials - all you need to bring is your imagination. Ideal for birthday parties, scout groups, home schooled groups, or just a fun get together with family and friends. Pot Parties are just $30.00 per person and can host 3 - 12 people ($25.00 per person for parties of 6 or more). You can even just drop in and try you hand on an available wheel for $25.00.
Pottery Membership: With a membership, you can join us during our open hours to make your own pottery. The Pot Shop is an open studio for all new and experienced potters to practice their skills.
For more information, call Noreen at (636)584-3169
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Washington In Bloom
Yard of the Month Contest
Washington In Bloom is offering the Yard of the Month contest in conjunction with the America In Bloom program. The contest runs May through October. Judging will be done the first week of the month. Judging will be based on front yard areas only. They are looking for best curb appeal (lawns, shrubs, flowers and trees). You can enter through the Washington Parks Office. Call the Washington Parks Department at 636-390-1080 for more information.
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St. Louis Water Gardening Society's
2016 Pond-O-Rama
June 25 and 26, 9 am to 5 pm
The St. Louis Water Gardening Society (SLWGS) will present Pond-O-Rama, its 16th annual water garden and pond tour, on Saturday, June 25 and Sunday, June 26 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day. The 2016 self-directed tour includes 47 private gardens located throughout the St. Louis metropolitan and Metro East areas. Water features range from spectacular high, thundering waterfalls to quiet streams, some "over the top", some small and private. There are pondless waterfalls that simply disappear at the termination of the falls and a water feature that incorporates rainwater recovery. Visit this link for more information: http://saintlouiswatergardeningsociety.org/pondorama.htm.
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Featured Adoptable Pet
Hello, my name is Barnie. I am a very handsome youngster with gray and contrasting white coloring, quite the looker! I am very mellow and friendly, and I would love to have a nice home with someone who would like me to sit on their lap and let them pet me. If you have room for me, please come to see me.
Purrs, Barnie
Franklin County Humane Society
1222 West Main Street, Union, MO 63084 ~ Phone: 636-583-4300 ~
Website
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