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We look forward to seeing you at Holiday Premiere Night!
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COMING EVENTS:
HOLIDAY PREMIERE NIGHT, Thursday, Nov. 6th, 4pm-8pm - Get an early start on your holiday shopping while enjoying free hot and cold appetizers, punch, desserts, and coffee! AND get 20% OFF all Christmas ornaments, gifts, decor, artificial trees, and wreaths! You'll get to see your favortie Homewood employees all gussied up for the occasion and instead of wielding a garden hose, they'll be offering tasty treats. The festivities go from 4pm to 8pm and we hope we'll see you here!
POINSETTIA OPEN HOUSE, Saturday, Nov. 22nd - Visit Homewood for a gorgeous festival of holiday color in our greenhouses! We'll have over 30,000 poinsettias on display, live music, and free refreshments!
TREE-mendous TREE & SHRUB SALE - 25% OFF all trees and shrub through November! Just in time for the perfect planting season!
What's New in the Nursery for November: 25% OFF TREES AND SHRUBS THROUGH NOVEMBER! We've still got a great selection of trees and shrubs in stock and it's the perfect time to plant!
Before Dutch elm disease came along last century, elms were a common
tree in our national landscape and along our city streets. Elms are a
beautiful street tree
with a tall, stately look and an attractive vase shape that ages into
gracefully arching branches. One variety, however, resisted the dreaded
Dutch elm disease. It actually can contract the disease without
succumbing to it. This stout variety is now known as the 'Princeton' elm. Besides disease resistance it's also faster growing (3'-6' a year!) and sports lovely golden yellow to bronzy orange fall color
and a broad vase shaped habit. AND, we now have them in stock! (Sorry,
no picture but you can do a Google Image search and find a couple of
nice pics.)
Now's a great time to plant up a container of miniature evergreens to dress up the doorway for winter. We've got a nice selection of these little darlings including dwarf
cypress, variegated osmanthus, miniature spruces, dwarf Canadian
hemlocks, and the teensiest, tiniest elm we've ever seen, 'Hokkaido'
Chinese elm that has leaves 1/8" long.
There's more
of these cuties from Iseli Nursery and they are just perfect mixed with
pansies and weeping plants like ivy, vinca, or creeping jenny. Fall
Magic perennials like variegated sage, Efanthia euphorbia, and Toffee
Twist carex also make good companion plants.
Speaking of container gardens, one truly fabulous plant for winter containers is Harry Lauder's walking stick.
The somewhat prosaic name eludes the twisted and serpentined funkiness
and interest created by the contorted branches of this ornamental
filbert. It's awesome underplanted with pansies, cabbages, and ivy or
can just be put in the perfect pot and left to steal the show. 
And speaking of plants with a serpentine look, we also have some
excellent 'Snow Fountain' weeping white cherries that have been trained into a serpentine habit. Besides their charming spring blooms, once they've dropped their leaves their sinuous trunks and weeping branches make for great winter specimen plants!
We've still got a very nice selection of camellias in stock including fall blooming sasanqua types and two species of beautiful, Homewood-exclusive, Taiwanese mountain camellias
(Camellia transnokoensis and C. tranarisanensis). Both have smaller,
finer foliage. If you're fond of camellias, you'll want to come check
them out because their availability from year to year is not always
guaranteed.
 Mt. Noko Camellia has raspberry tipped flowers of bright white.
 Camellia transarisanensis has white flowers softly blushed with rose-pink.
Plenty of other mainstays in stock: red hollies, Japanese maples, evergreen conifers, and more!
What's Growing On in the Greenhouse for November: 
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