Schedule Changes

The next two weeks are just chock full of events here at Melanie's Perennials. Right now we are experiencing the calm before the storm. There's so much green in the garden but the late spring/early summer perennials are about to explode!

This Friday evening I'll be driving down to Maryland with my daughters to attend a wedding shower on Saturday. We will be home again late Saturday night so I won't be here if you planned on stopping by. My husband will be home and will sell plants but won't be able to answer questions about them. So if you want to purchase things while I'm here, we'll be open on Sunday June 7th and just possibly Thursday (tomorrow) late afternoon and evening (check here first).

As for the weekend after this one, I will be open for business but in a different location! I belong to the local garden club, the Nathan Hale Garden club to be exact and we are holding our flower show in Huntington village at the Kissam House on Park Avenue. I'll have a sales booth there with all kinds of cool plants. You can visit me there on Friday June 12th 1:30 - 7:00pm and Saturday June 13th 10:00am - 2:00pm.

That same weekend we'll be open here on Sunday for tours, bring a friend, bring a cooler, bring your camera and note pad. By then the hardy Geraniums (first photo features Geranium nudosum) and the Tradescantias (second photo is Tradescantia 'Little Doll') will be in full swing!

Friday and Saturday, May 15th & 16th

There's lots of beautiful plants blooming in our gardens right now and a few new beauties in pots. Our Galium odoratum (Sweet woodruff) and our Convalaria majalis (Lily of the valley) are both in bloom this weekend. Both are the sweetest things (take a sniff if you don't believe me).


Also in it's full glory is our Mazus reptans path. Mazus is a little, creeping ground cover that is just perfect to fill in the bare spots between stepping stones. Don't have any stepping stones? Well we know of other great spots for Mazus too.


How incredible are these hypertufa troughs! My friend Kim and I found a great source for these wonderful containers and I've purchased a few for me and a few for you. Stop by and watch me pot them up. I'll be working on several different sizes on Saturday.


Some of the containers will hold sun plants and some will hold shade plants. Hypertufa is a mixture of cement, peat moss and sand. Containers made from hypertufa look and feel like concrete but are not as heavy. Filled with soil they certainly aren't light either but at least I can lift them and move them to different locations.

There's a nice selection of Hen's and Chicks here to fill your own containers with, they are really starting to plump up now. Also, we now carry shade perennials from Fox Hollow Farm so if you are looking for some of the best mini hosta and ferns on Long Island you will want to stop by while we have lots of stock.

We'll be open Friday afternoon (after 2:00 pm please) and all day Saturday (10:00 - 4:00 pm). Hope to see you soon.

Melanie