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What's New Highlights and Index
(updated May 26, 2006)
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Sign Up for Reilly's
Gardening Tips E-letter
Our weekly (more or less) electronic newsletter provides gardening tips suited to Ottawa's climate and growing conditions.
We also announce our events, workshops, and periodic sales in our e-letters. By receiving our e-letters you are the first, and often the only, people to know about our weekly specials.
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New (May 2006):
Garden Soil Basics: (Click Here)
This new page focuses on how to make your gardens successful from the soil up. You'll find tips and explanations on soil building, maintaining soil health through composting, and creating special soils for specialty gardens such as rock gardens and bogs.
New (March 2006):
Archived gardening e-letters from Reilly's now available on-line
Click here to go to the index page of archived gardening tips written especially for Ottawa-area gardeners (USDA Zones 3-4).
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2006 updates to our web site
• Click here to see our list of Perennials to be stocked in 2006.
• Click here to see our list of Small Trees, Shrubs and Vines to be stocked in 2006.
• Click here to see our photo gallery of Waterlilies to be in stock in 2006
• Click here to see our listing and photos of fiberglass containers available in 2006
• Click here to see a photo gallery of plant-filled containers that we've seen on our travels or that Carole has constructed for use around our nursery.
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Water Gardening At Reilly's ... As of 2005 we are a NurseryPro pond products dealer
Water gardening has become a new component of our nursery as of 2005. We now have a 16' X 16' tear drop shaped pond with waterfalls and stream as a demonstration pond system. This is an exciting and energizing endeavour - it is nice to have new projects to implement for our own enjoyment and to then be able to provide the experience of having 'walked the talk' when we talk to customers about the products we now sell. Click here to see a photo-essay of our 2004 pond-building stages and the finished project (minus plantings). Plant installation is now mostly completed and photos will soon be included in our photo-essay.
We have become a NureryPro pond products dealer. We stock complete pond kits for DIY installation, replacement pumps, underwater lighting systems, EDPM pond liners, and pond maintenace items. Click here to go to Aquascape's web site where you'll get an amazing amount of information on pond building and seasonal pond maintenance tips.
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New products and programs for 2005
We now sell organic fertilizers, natural bark mulches, fish emulsion fertilizer, and numerous organic pest/weed control products. We also have many new containers. Of course we are expanding our plant selection to include many aquatic plants! Click here to view our new products.
Flowering Shrubs Now at Reilly’s
Progress continues around the nursery. We now stock some of the choicest of small flowering shrubs for incorporation in perennial flower beds or as specimen plantings. Click here to go to our 2005 listing.
5-Year Warranty on Shrubs and Trees Now Available
As of 2005, in conjunction with the producers of Myke products, we offer a unique 5-year warranty on our tree and shrub stock planted using Myke Tree and Shrub Growth Supplement. The warranty applies to trees and shrubs planted in soil and shade conditions meeting their basic siting needs (i.e. shade-requiring plants go in shade and acidic soil requirers go in acidic solis, etc). Click here to get our information on the warranty program.
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On-line Gardening Fact Sheets from Reilly's
We have a number of on-line fact sheets on gardening with perennials in the Ottawa area. New articles (Feb/05) include: a) No-Loss Planting Recommendations b) Earthworms as Habitat Destroyers!
Click here for the full listing of Phil's articles.
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Click here for examples of illustrated talks that are ready 'at a minutes' notice.
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New products for 2005 - 2006
Our product line continues to expand. We've again ordered organic fertilizers, natural bark mulches, many new containers, plus many new plant varieties.
We also sell a line of organic pest and weed control products. We've been using most of them for years ourselves and can vouch for their effectiveness.
Neem oil - gardeners with Lily Beetle infestations will be interested in this product. Canadian regulations don't allow us to tell you why it is of interest. The label claims it is useful as a leaf shine! Using it will allow your lilies' leaves to really shine ! (Wink, wink, cough, cough!)
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Trounce - Safer's® Yard & Garden Insect Killer
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Trounce Yard & Garden Insecticide is a fast-acting, short-lived product. It is effective on a broad spectrum of insects including aphids, caterpillars, leafhoppers, earwigs, beetles, and whiteflies. It can be used on fruit trees, ornamentals, flowers, shrubs and vegetables. Trounce can be used on edible crops up to and including the day of harvest. Wash fruits and vegetables before using. |
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Defender - Safer's® Defender Fungicide
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Safer's® Defender Fungicide is a liquid, sulphur-based fungicide which controls the most common surface infecting fungal problems such as powdery mildew, black spot and rust. Defender actual defends the plants by covering them with a protective coating. This product is ideal for roses as it does not have the strong smell often associated with sulphur-based products. Defender is available in a concentrate.
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End•All - Safer's® End•All Miticide/Insecticide/Acaricide
Controls all stages of aphids, spider mites, whitefly, spittle bugs adult and nymph stags of thrips, flea beetles, caterpillars, mealybugs, scale inects and sugar ants.
EcoClear - Ecoval Horticultural Products' EcoClear Weed and Grass Killer (Stock temporarily depleted.)
Total Weed control using common natural ingredients found in vinegar and lemon juice. EcoClear is non-selective. It kills very quickly. Only weeds that are growing will be killed. It has no residual activity. Its active ingredients are rapidly neutralized by contact with the soil. It will not change soil pH since the ingredients are used as a food source by soil microorganisms.
EcoClear can be sprayed anytime even under cool conditions as long as weeds are not wet.
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This product effectively kills all types of caterpillars including cabbageworm, tomato hornworm, tent caterpillars, gypsy moth and others. It is a highly concentrated formula in a 100ml package that makes over 30 liters of spray solution, enough to cover 300 sq. meters. It is ideal for vegetables, fruit and shade trees, ornamentals and evergreens. BTK is found naturally in soil and degrades within a week as the sun hits it. BTK does not harm people, animals, birds or fish |
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Hoeing Just Got Easier - 2005 Update
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We have brought in a supply of terrific new garden hoes that are virtually effortless to use.
When Carole and I attended the 2004 Toronto gardening trade show, we saw a demonstration of a uniquely designed wing-shaped hoe called the Winged Weeder. We bought 36 of them because they looked so easy to use. Picture an exaggerated 'arrow head' on a stick or a stealth jet fighter with sleek, pointed and swept-back wings. Place the 'arrow' or wings on a handle and you have a 'Winged Weeder'. All edges (leading and trailing) of the spring steel wings are sharpened for cutting in both push and pull strokes. The design looked great in theory.
In the year that I've stocked these hoes I have become a personal convert to their ease of use and ability to get the hoeing job done.
One of my first tests was to edge some gardens. (See photo below) By rotating the hoe’s handle I had a pointed, 6-inch long cutting tool that easily sheared the roots of invading grasses that were creeping into the beds. Turning the handle so that the cutting head was parallel to the ground let me easily flip the grass clumps out of the soil.
Next was removing some quite mature dandelions. Again, with the hoe’s cutting head positioned so that one wing was angled up in the air while the other was in the soil, it was easy to slice off the dandelion’s root about 6 inches below soil level and then flip the leafy portion of the weed out of the ground.
Removing weeds from between flagstones and bricks (see photo) was equally easy. The pointed end of the cutting ‘wings’ easily negotiates the narrow joints.
It is indeed a well-designed hoe!
If you are interested in purchasing one of these great new hoes give us a call or send an email and we’ll arrange a mutually convenient time for you to visit and see the three sizes of ‘Winged Weeders'. Two are on 52" long rake-like handles – there are two head sizes (3 and 6 inch long wings) and the third (sorry, not available in 2005) is the 3-inch head on a 12-inch long handle.
The hoes are priced as follows:
52" handle with 3" cutting wings - $39.95,
52" handle with 6" cutting wings - $41.95.
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The Winged Weeders come in 3 sizes:
52" handle with 6" cutting wings (left)
52" handle with 3" cutting wings (middle)
12" handle with 3 cutting wings (right)
(Not available in 2006)
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Close up of the 3 cutting heads
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Some example uses for the Winged Weeder.
Left: Edging a bed with the 6" Winged Weeder.
Right: Removing weeds from between bricks with the 6" Winged Weeder.
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Once -a-year fertilizing ... consider this procedure for 2006.
We are now selling a ‘feed and forget’ fertilizer that you apply just once in the spring. The balanced nutritional formula (14:14:14) is ideal for hanging baskets, container plantings, and perennial plantings in your gardens.
The nutrients, contained within a unique protective pellet, are slowly released to your plants over the growing season. Increasing seasonal temperatures and warmer rains (or water from your hose system) releases the nutrients to meet the needs of actively growing plants. Chilly spring conditions, on the other hand, retard the rate of nutrient release so that they are conserved until they are really needed. There is just the right amount of fertilizer in the pellets to last a growing season. It’s a great system for busy gardeners or those of us with memory lapse. Gardeners with cottages or travel plans will find this ‘once-a-year’ fertilizer guarantees your plants the food they need for perky growth and flower production for the times when you are around your gardens to enjoy them.
We’ve used this same fertilizer to feed our potted perennials for 6 years with very good results. Last year, participants in Carole’s ‘Container Workshops’ used this same fertilizer to feed their take-home creations. This year, we are making this great fertilizer available to all of our customers at a very reasonable price of $10.89 per kilogram.
Next time you are at our nursery, look for our containers of this great slow-release fertilizer. We hope you like our effort to save you money.
Here are the application instructions:
Lightly mix fertilizer into top 1/2 inch of soil.
Fertilizer application rate per container size:
6 g. per 6" pot;
12 g. per 8" pot;
30 g. per 10" pot;
115 g. per 20" pot;
170 g. per 24" pot;
265 g. per 30" pot.
You can also use this fertilizer in garden applications.
For garden use, apply 1 kg. per 45 sq. feet ( 4.2 sq. meters).
A 20 kg. bag will cover 900 sq. feet ( 83.5 sq. meters).
A 20 kg. bag sells for $159.50 (2006 price to be confirmed soon).
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A Gift Certificate for plants for your gardening enthusiast is just a phone call away.
We will gladly accept phone orders for gift certificates - just have your VISA or Mastercard number available.
If you are more comfortable sending us a cheque, make it payable to Reilly's Country Gardens and send it to the address in the page-top banner. Make sure you tell us who is to receive the gift certificate so that we can personalize it with her/his name on it.
We'll mail your personalized Gift Certificate to you the same day of your order - or you can pick it up during business hours or by special arrangements in off-season periods.
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Interested in using our gardens for wedding photography?
Shannon's wedding photographer was so enthusiastic about the range of photo opportunities in the gardens that he asked us if we had ever thought of offering our gardens for bridal pictures or even other weddings.
We are glad to respond that "We are Open for Bookings". There are few gardens in Ottawa's western areas available for wedding photography. We could conceiveably soon have a 'traffic jam' of wedding parties in the gardens and this would not suit anyone. So please make reservations well in advance if this opportunity interests you.
There will be a fee for this service. The reason for a fee is that we will have extra lawn and garden maintenance to undertake to have the property in show conditions to accentuate your memorable moments.
A flat fee has not been set. We will negotiate a fee based on the details of your request.
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Need a Speaker for Garden Club Meetings or other Gatherings
Our slide presentations and talks can be delivered 'on a moment's notice' in the less hectic months. Because of the physical demands of our business, we limit our availability from April to June.
• Eye popping Peonies! Carole Reilly
Learn how to use these beauties effectively in your gardens. Included in the talk is a slide show which illustrates varieties from early to late season bloom as well as info on how to care for them. Find out how to dig and divide them so that you can share your long-lived beauties. Click here for our peony gallery page that has many photos and much info. too!
• Creative Containers for Weddings, Parties, Patios and Gardens.
Carole's 90 minute talk and slide presentation highlights suitable soil mixes, stunning plant material and combinations for containers, and how to fertilize and water for success.
• 14 Gardens of the New York and Philadelphia areas. (90 minutes.)
This slide presentation captures a fall garden tour of major and unique gardens along the Atlantic seaborard. Our journey took us to Saratoga Springs N.Y., northern Connecticut (White Flower Farm & Caprilands Herb Farm), coastal Connecticut (Greenwhich's Montgomery Pinetum), New York City (N.Y. Botanical Gardens, Wave Hill, Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, and Staten Island Botanical Gardens), Philadelphia (Pennsbury Manor, Bartram’s Historic Gardens, The Highlands, Peddlar’s Village, Philadelphia Horticultural Centre, Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Gardens), and the Wilmington, Delaware area (Longwood Gardens & Winterthur).
• All Season Bloom for the Perennial Garden. (75 minutes.)
This slide presentation captures over 100 perennials in bloom over the season
• Starting & Maintaining a Pesticide-free Naturalized Garden. Phil Reilly
Phil has a long history of participation in environmental issues - one of them the hazzards of use of pesticides on turf and in gardens. This presentation summarizes site considerations for deciding on the type of naturalized garden most suited to a property, outlines the steps to prepare the site and makes suggestions for plants to complete the garden.
• Putting Your Garden to Bed. Phil Reilly
Phil talks about readying your garden for successful overwintering. Topics include general garden maintenance, fall bulb planting and winterizing shrubs, trees, perennials and marginally hardy plants.
• Inspirational Gardens east of the Ottawa Valley. Phil Reilly
This 60 minute presentation features an assortment of Quebec City and Montreal area public and private gardens visited on a recent tour hosted by the Garden Writers Association of America.
One of North America's premiere private gardens, 'Les Quatres Vents' the showpiece of Frank Cabot, is featured. This amazing garden is rarely open to the public . The Reford Gardens (formerly Métis Gardens) in Mont-Joli are also visited . Reford Gardens showcases some of the world's most innovative garden 'ideas' for the gardens of the 21st century. Slides from Montreal's Mosaiculture International Montréal 2000 at the Old Port will be included in the presentation. The Mosaiculture exhibition of 3-D carpet bedding-type displays was the world's first international competition of floral sculptures.
• Truckin' to Southwestern and West Coast U.S. Botanical Gardens. Phil Reilly
This 60-minute slide presentation captures botanical gardens and natural area enroute to California and Oregon. The focus of this presentation is desert flora and plants of the world's mediterranean areas as seen in a number of prestigeous botanical gardens. A pot-pourris of garden 'portraits', found in Japanese-styled gardens, a California winery, and a California mansion make this an hour of gardening 'dreaming'.
Want to preview this presentation? Click here to go to the abbreviated web-version of the presentation.
• Ornamental Grasses Hardy In the Ottawa Area. Phil Reilly
Phil begins his 60 minute slide presentation with a primer on growing and maintaining ornamental grasses. In the slide presentation are many compositional photos of distinct ornamental grass gardens as well as ideas for incorporating grasses in conventional perennial gardens.
• Xeriscaping: Gardening with Plants Suited to Low Water Demands. Phil Reilly
Phil introduces the concept of xeriscaping: gardening with plants tough enough to withstand low moisture conditions. Many plants in high-elevation mountains, in deserts and around salt-water areas have adpted to these very conditions. Garden design and soil preparation, to mimic the natural environmental conditions of these areas, is key to growing these tough plants. Plants with low water demands and growable in Ottawa's temperate environment are discussed.
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Work Opportunities at Reilly's Country Gardens
Nursery employment for 2006
Each year we hire part-time and/or full-time workers. Horticultural training is not our primary consideration for employment! We primarily need people with the ability to communicate a love of plants to customers. Of course there is the drudgery of watering, moving plants about as they arrive by the truckload and working outdoors rain or shine.
We'll be looking for a start date of about the second week of April and a wrap-up about mid October. We are quite flexible in arranging hours to be worked. We appreciate regular commitments of blocks of time (e.g. full days but not necessarily consecutive days) and starting and quitting times can be negotiated. We pay experienced plants people a bit above the industry standards to reflect our 'specialty' position in the industry. Contact us if you are interested in more information.
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