Pop some fresh color into your garden with cold tolerant annuals that bloom until frost! We grew a fresh batch of superbells (some out now, some second week of Sept.), and marigolds (should be ready mid-month) because these toughies don't mind the cooler fall temperatures and will keep blooming until a frost takes them out. Some will even survive a light frost!

Hydrangeas have a lot to love. Sometimes too much when they get big. That's why when new dwarf forms come along, like this NEW 'Little Lime' hardy hydrangea, we get all stoked up. 'Little Lime' is pretty much like the popular 'Limelight' hydrangea: its fat cone-shaped flower clusters start out light lime green and age to white and then to antique rosy pink. But, this new dwarf tops out at about 3-5 feet tall making it much easier to fit into most modern landscapes. Plant in part sun.

Even though we are swamped every spring with folks looking to plant one, Fall is the best time to plant a dogwood. They really establish better when they don't have to go right into one of our brutal summers just after planting. We've got a nice shipment that's just come in!

Baby poinsettias in the greenhouse. Granted it's not the ruckus of color that you're used to seeing in the greenhouse in spring but just wait untilNovember! That's when these little baby poinsettias are going to shout in red, white, and pink, "Tis the season!"

Fresh shipments of beautiful plants for your garden are coming in daily to Homewood right now! We're stocking up for the Fall Plant Sale and you'll find all your favorites including azaleas (including Encores), hollies, camellias, Japanese maples, dogwoods, screening plants, foundation plants, shade trees, groundcovers, and much more.

FIRST SHIPMENT OF FALL PANSIES HAS ARRIVED! They are looking great for this time of year, already blooming away! September is a good time to put in pansies for fall and winter color so that they have time to get well established before the cold weather slows them down. It does make a difference as far as what the winter landscape looks like: full swaths of pansies vs. small little individual plants hunkered down for the winter.

Come to Homewood for beautiful, Homewood-grown garden mums that are just covered with buds and blooms! We will have 24 varieties in lovely fall colors that will dress up your porch, patio, or entranceway. Mix them with pansies or Fall Magic plants for more color and interest. Selection is starting now and will expand over the next few weeks.

FRESH shipment of camellias has arrived! Few flowers can compare to the elegance, grace, and sheer gorgeousness of camellias. Add that they are evergreen and bloom in fall or late winter, and you have two more reasons to plant these beauties. Look for the NEW-ish 'Autumn Rocket' variety, a fall-blooming white camellia with a columnar habit perfect for framing doorways, entrances, and as a vertical accent. Grown just for us, it's a HOMEWOOD EXCLUSIVE! (pictured: Camellia sasanqua 'Buttermint'. Sorry no pic of 'Autumn Rocket'.)

We love these elegant classically-styled four-season pots!

• Locally-made in Fuquay-Varina!
• Made from reclaimed marble & resin
• Resistant to cracking & chipping
• Scratches can be buffed out
• Many times more durable than terra cotta
• Lighter and more durable than concrete
• Color goes all the way through the pot
• Frost and freeze proof
• Solid one-piece construction