Organic fertilizers and soil mycorrhizae

Organic Fertilizers
Ciscoe LOVES it!
Why use anything less than the best for your garden?

I have been gardening for years. For many years I mixed all my own fertilizers...I'd buy 50lb bags of fertilizer ingredients, lug them around and custom blend them-a tiring and dirty dusty job!

I was also mail ordering mycorrhizae to add to my soil blends to stimulate healthy root-soil development.
I was blending and bagging the fertilizer to sell to my customers...
TIME consuming!
BUT, this was the most important component to healthy plants...HEALTHY SOIL

Seriously, there must be a better way!

I started exploring the fertilizer options and came across Hendrikus organics
StartRight is a balanced combination of endo-ecto mycorrhizae in a bio-stimulant nutrient base to assist new plants and transplants in their development of root systems and new hair roots. The name "Mycorrhizae" is Greek for fungus roots and it describes the mutually beneficial symbioses between these soil fungi and plant roots. A teaspoon of healthy soil can contain several miles of mycorrhizal filaments that play a fundamental role in establishing and extending root systems, improving plant nutrient and water uptake, disease resistance and plant growth, while reducing transplant shock and drought stress. StartRight re-establishes these essential soil fungi for healthy plant development.
(Reprinted from Hendrikus website) 

I now USE and sell EXCLUSIVELY the Hendrikus line.

For me-there has never been a better product, complete with clear instructions and nice packaging.

Perennials Sale

As the summer comes to a close, and we begin the return to cooler temps, shorter days and and colorful changes that fall brings, we realize some plants are more sleepy than others...so...            We're having a 'Sleeping beauty' sale.  Spring bloomers, trees and shrubs will be so much more vigorous and floriferous in the spring if you plant in the Fall.    Why you ask?  They are dormant.  Strong root development can take place over the winter, resulting in less spring maintenance/watering, and stronger healthier plants.            The same things apply to Fall planting...     The success of healthy, well developed plants is                                IN THE SOIL.  Amend soil with manure/homemade compost and organic fertilizers break the roots up-this is very important soak the rootball- up to an hour if necessary pour at least a gallon or more of water into the planting hole,  backfill and water again...                            Sleeping Beauties SALE  50%off sleeping/resting plants Sept 22nd-30th  Perennials on sale  Daylilies  Dahlia's  Foxtail lilies  Hardy Geraniums  Columbine  Geum  Hellebores  Lady's mantle  Iris  Hosta's-going to sleep soon (excludes Guacamole)  Taro  Lilies  Shasta daisies   Carnation  Monarda  Daffodils  Tulips  Uvularia  Filipendula  Yarrow  Alliums  Veronica  Eryngium  Penstemon   Bowles golden grass  Scented geraniuims-houseplant or outside in summer  Devil's club- a NW native Impatiens- noli-tangere, NW native  and more... Shrubs on sale  Indian Plum  Ninebarks  Barberry  mystery azalea's  Gooseberry  Vines on sale  (excludes hops and honeysuckle)  All clematis  Climbing hydrangeas   and more...  Select Roses on sale...  York and lancaster (overstock sale)  Complicata (os sale)  Sissinghurst castle (os sale)  Evangeline   Everest Fragrance  Cardinal Richelieu  Margarets Rambler  Golden Showers   and more... The only West Seattle source for Hendrikus Organic Fertilizer and soil mycorhhyzza. Give your plants the right start. Family owned and operated. 35 years in business. Community supported. Sincerely, Vera Johnson Village Green Perennial Nursery

Japanese Maples

Fall is the best time to plant trees and shrubs...
We have a diverse collection of Japanes maple trees to choose from
The vibrant fall color helps in choosong the  Japanes Maple that would make a nice complement to you yard and garden.

Shop early for best selection
Dwarf varieties and named cultivars available

Hours 

Weds-Friday 11-6

Sat/Sunday 10-4:30

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Village Green Perennial Nursery

10223 26th Ave SW Seattle Wa. 98146

 206-767-7735

Whats New?

Shrubs  

Red flowering Currant- this one with chartreuse leaves!  Read Paghat's garden 
for more info... needs more shade- but beautiful foliage!!!!

Podocarpus alpinus 'Country park fire'- A low spreading evergreen shrub with bright red berries in fall, clinging to the bronze winter foliage, in spring the new shoots emerge creamy and quickly turn salmon pink then reddish and finally deep green. Low water needs

Podocarpus 'orangeade'  The dramatic orange new spring growth on this upright shrubby conifer becomes green in summer and a deep-bronzy-purple in winter.

Bald cypress-  Peve Minaret A unique dwarf Bald Cypress is a beautiful majestic pyramidal tree with very delicate, feathery foliage. Prefers moist soil, but will tolerate most conditions. Rare, new and great !

 Katsura tree- A beautiful landscape tree, Katsura tree has many desirable characteristics including a range of colors over the entire year that is second to none. The leaves of this tree emerge, not green, but a beautiful reddish purple. Then as the season progresses the leaves turn dark bluish green. In the fall things get exciting. The fall color of this tree varies from an intense yellow. In some cases, however, they turn a gorgeous apricot orange that is quite memorable. To add to the autumn pizzazz, as the leaves fall they give off a modestly spicy odor making you think of cotton candy. But the performance is not over. Once bereft of leaves, Katsuratree bark takes over the show with a beautiful pattern of slight exfoliation and medium gray color that is generally very handsome.

Elderberry -Intensely flavored fruit with a rich aroma. Bountiful harvest ripens in August. Extremely hardy, tall shrub grows 12-14 ft.  Plant two varieties for improved pollination, extended harvest period and top yields. York—Quickest to bear, often in its second year. Ripens late August. Nova—Great for pies, jelly and wine. Ripens two weeks before York.

Honeyberry  A delicious berry!

Gold leaved Barberry- columnar and shrub