Garden Tips

The Garden Path Nursery, Florist & Gifts

Garden Tips

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With years of experience in the nursery business, we strive to make The Garden Path a unique shopping experience. Advice on growing and blooming habits are available on every plant offered as well as help in choosing just the right location in your landscape for your new additions. Do-it-yourself landscapers can bring in photos or diagrams of their projects to receive advice on what and where to plant.

Customers may bring in their garden containers to choose their plant selections or drop them off and Shari will refill them. Perennials, common and unusual, are sold in gallon and various 4-inch sizes.

Shari, Parker & Penelope pose in a display

of our plants available.

Repotting Houseplants

There are several ways to tell that it is time to repot. In young plants, they will simply outgrow their containers, pushing roots through the drainage holes and looking out of proportion to the container. They will also require very frequent watering. In older plants, the soil will eventually break down and deteriorate and need to be refreshed. The plant will show some decreased vigor and you will be able to see that the soil has become very compacted.

Grow Succulents

For a pick-me-up in mid-winter, pick out a succulent or two. Not all succulents need full sun, and most need very little attention for an attractive display. All have interesting stems and foliage with plenty of texture and many will even bloom if given the right conditions.

We will update this page often to give the latest in gardening tips and highlight a new plant that we recommend. We welcome any ideas you may have for this page and let us know what you would like to know more about. We look forward to hearing from you.

Shari

Our nursery offers a variety of seasonal bedding plants, foliage plants and hanging baskets. The greenhouse is filled with assorted herbs and assortment of houseplants. The plant yard includes a variety of shrubs, azaleas, roses, fruit and shade trees and water plants.

Pin Oak

Plant type: Tree
USDA Hardiness Zones: 4a to 8a
Height: 600" to 900"
Spread: 420" to 600"
Exposure: full sun
Bloom Color: Brown
Leaf Color: Green

Growth Rate: average

Moisture: wet
Soil Condition: Acidic, Clay, Loamy, Neutral, Sandy, Well drained
Form: Pyramidal
Landscape Uses: Aggressive surface roots possible, Specimen, Street tree
Special Features: Attracts birds, North American native, Inconspicuous flowers or blooms

Pests on Houseplants

Inspect houseplants for pests such as spider mites, mealybugs, and scale insects. If you see fine webbing, small white spots, or tiny, turtle-like bumps on any of your plants, isolate them and spray with insecticidal soap.

Orchard Cleanup

Prune out dead and diseased branches in your fruit trees, vine, and bushes. Remove any dried "mummies" of last season's fruits including those on the soil surface. These are sources of infection for this spring's crop. A little sanitation goes a long way toward reducing disease problems in your backyard fruit planting.

We also offer fresh & silk floral arrangements and gift baskets for all occasions.

Gift wrapped plants and plant arrangements are also available.

Each arrangement is custom made when you order so that you receive that special touch. Get well, sympathy, birthday or just thinking of you arrangements or gift baskets are made to express whatever sentiment you want to express.

We will also help design holiday and everyday wreaths and home decor.

Delivery is available for a small fee and we will ship any silk arrangements.

The Garden Path Nursery, Florist & Gifts

Billy & Shari Holcomb- Owners

311 Millcreek Rd.

Hot Springs, AR 71901

501-623-2574
thegardenpath1@yahoo.com