In This Issue

• How to Water After Planting
• Top-Selling Plants
• Our Coaches Love These Plants Now
• Send Us Your Garden Pictures
• Look Up Your Past Orders
• Searching for Plants On Our Website
• Our Order Calendar -- Season Ends Soon!

How to Water Your Plants After Planting

Newly planted shrubs and plants need lots of tender loving care to help them get established and prepare for winter.

Water, Water, Water. Water deeply every day for the first couple weeks, then weekly for the rest of the season until the ground is frozen. You could be watering plants into December! In the fall, more may be needed in a hot spell. Watering deeply means making sure the water reaches down through the root zone. Slowly watering over a long time is better than a quick dump of a lot of water from a watering can. Water for 20 seconds, then move to another area and go back to the first one and water again.

Note: In this heat, the plants you picked up or had delivered need to get into the ground fast! If you must wait to plant them until you have time over the weekend, put the plants in the shade, on soft ground that holds moisture rather than a patio, driveway or stone that retains heat.

All the Top-Selling Plants -- These Lists Offer Some Inspiration

Wonder what plants are favorites with your neighbors and others in the Midwest? There is strength in numbers; these plants please their owners because they do well in our climate and deliver great foliage and blooms.

Check out these award winning and top ranked plants! Some might just be perfect for placement in your garden this fall!

Some Great Plants Our Coaches are Loving Right Now

Hellebore

Lenten Rose

Partial Shade to Shade

Sedum

Stonecrop

Full Sun to Partial Sun

Leucanthemum

Shasta Daisy

Full Sun to Partial Shade

Liriope

Lily Turf

Full Sun to Shade

Salvia

Perennial Sage

Full Sun

Veronica

Speedwell

Full Sun to Partial Sun

Iris siberica

Siberian Iris

Full Sun to Partial Sun

Perovskia

Russian Sage

Full Sun

Pulmonaria

Lungwort

Partial Shade

Let Us Feature Your Container (and garden) Photos!

We would love to feature your creativity on our website or newsletter, to share ideas with club members who could use some inspiration. Please send a photo of your fall or favorite spring and summer pots or plantings (and the plants you used to create them) to leslie@northshoreplantclub.com. We can't wait to see your creations!

Can't Remember What You Ordered Last Year,

or Pre-Ordered for Fall?

We sometimes lose track of the plants we chose for our own gardens too! That's why all of your Plant Club orders can be found on your account page. Just log in, and click at the top right corner where it says "Welcome Back ___" -- and then click on "My Orders," and you can see all the plants you have selected over the years for your garden, including pre-orders. Super easy!

Looking for a super quick way to see if North Shore Plant Club can get you a specific plant?

Look at our BIG LIST of plants. Everything we have available for this sale is right here. Just type the name of the plant you are trying to find in the search box and you'll immediately know if we have it or not -- and you can even sort by container size! (Remember, our inventory changes every week!)

This great BIG LIST is a super easy way to make our website of more than 1,000 plants seem very manageable.

We don't believe any local retail nursery offers the number of plants or as many sizes as the Plant Club.

Our Last Two Plant Sales of the Season

• Order Through September 22 -- deliver by September 26

(fall annuals, perennials, grasses and more)

• Order October 3 - 6 -- deliver by October 10

(last order of 2024 -- fall annuals, perennials, grasses and more)

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Please reach out with questions -- help@northshoreplantclub.com -- and we’ll work through your situation by email or phone or share the names of some great garden coaches who can efficiently and affordably help you plan a new area in your garden, or coach you on how to care for what you have!

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(Easy pickup in Barrington, Buffalo Grove, Deerfield, Glenview, Highland Park, Lake Bluff, Lake Forest, Libertyville, Naperville, Skokie/Evanston, and Winnetka. And we deliver, too!)

Order by 7 p.m. on Sunday, September 22

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