Spring is Coming to The Home Depot Garden Centers

February 19, 2010 by Rick

Over the last 3 weeks I have traveled around the state and met with 600 Home Depot garden associates spreading news and knowledge about great Florida Friendly Plants. This excited team is chomping at the bit for good weather after all the freezes we have had. We did have a little sleet and snow on January 10th in parts of Florida. What an El Nino winter this has been! With climate change we know winter and summer precipitation will be greater as there will be much more water vapor in the atmosphere as the planet warms yet droughts in drought prone areas are worsening. Poor Australia! We gardeners will just have to take what mother nature sends our way.

Home Depot Associates

 

 

A good percentage of associates are Florida Certified Horticulture Professionals (FCHP). Much of what I shared with the long time Home Depot garden associates (some as much as 20 year vets) is in the post  Successful Gardening in 2010.

Home Depot Delivery

New shipments of Florida Friendly Plants are arriving daily at most

Florida Home Depot garden centers.

 

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March 21. 2009 05:26

I'm excited about the new shipments to garden centers! I wonder if you'll be recommending some of your new favorites for spring, and spring into summer, that we should be on the lookout for.
  (I know you play favorites! Spill!)

Penny Carnathan

March 21. 2009 18:20

I will in time. Thanks for the Luther Burbank book. My dad always told us about him when anything newsworthy about gardening come up since we were little. He must have learned of him in school and his research was likely in newsreels at the theaters. Great stuff. I do have a spineless edible cactus that is attractive and similar to the one that Luther Burbank developed. You are going to like the looks and performance of this beauty when I introduce it later this year. Have you tried the salad dressing with herbs yet?

Rick

March 23. 2009 05:05

Such exciting stuff... always get excited when I happen to be there and those fresh Florida Friendly plants are being unloaded. Dreams and visions dance in my head... Yay Spring!
Meems

Meems

March 25. 2009 09:41

Looking forward to visiting Home Depot in the next couple of weeks and stocking up on Florida Friendly Plants! I'm so anxious to begin spring planting. I'm going to try the sweet potato vines this year, too. I especially like the lime green variety...

Janna

March 25. 2009 23:25

Janna, The chartreuse is so versatile and desirable. What do you think about making a pumpkin patch? Any other design ideas that come to mind would interest me too. This is a great plant. I pulled out a bunch of huge tubers as I was doing my cleanup from the freeze.

Rick

March 26. 2009 01:37

I LOVE sweet potato vines! I left some of my tubers buried, hoping they'll resprout, when I was pulling out a TON of post-freeze vines. Those spread quickly (which should make Janna very happy) and they're great for sticking cuttings in vases around the house. They last forever (if you remember water.) I'd like to find the flowering type this time around.
   Rick, I can't believe Luther Burbank was a family hero! Wow, that explains a lot. (Ours was "Little Mary Sunshine." What does that say?) It's also kind of freaky in a Ouija board sort of way. I immediately thought of you as I read parts of the book.
   No salad dressing yet. Lost most of my herbs in the freeze and waiting for seeds to sprout. But I'll most definitely try Syd's recipes (though I'm not a cook. At all.)

Penny Carnathan

March 29. 2009 02:23

It's posts like this that make me so excited for spring. I think Home Depot is going to carry more products this year, so I hope they carry more organic gardening products. I found this organic bug control spray online called End All:
http://www.saferbrand.com/store/garden-care/5102
Does anyone know if Home Depot carries this yet?

Bill