-Place in a room where there is bright natural light but not where the sun will shine directly on the plant.

-Keep the plant away from locations where it will receive hot or cold draughts.

-Poinsettias are fragile, place plant high enough to be out of reach of unmonitored children and pets.

-Set the plant in a water-proof container to protect your furniture.

-Water the plant thoroughly when the soil surface is dry to the touch. Discard any excess water which remains in the saucer or foil cover after 10 minutes.

-Fertilizer is not needed at this stage of the Poinsettias life.

-Do not over water your poinsettia.

-The bright colour of the bracts will remain longer if temperatures do not exceed 22 degrees Celsius

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As well as having the kids go back to school!! More free time to stop by & share your harvest stories & photos or just send  your stories & photos to hortchick@hotmail.com or gardens@westcoastfloral.com & we’ll share them on our blog. 

What has your garden done for you this year? We’ll see you in September; we open the same day the kids return to school; Tuesday September 6th. Fall hours are 9am-5pm Monday through Saturday.

Text & Photos by Celeste Paley

“For the sixth year, Green Profit’s Young Retailer Award is shining the spotlight on garden retail’s young stars, those who have built up some formidable trade experience to hang their hats on and who have many more years to make an impact on the industry. Youth, enthusiasm, innovative thinking—and decidedly fewer creaky bones than their older compatriots!—will help get these finalists anywhere they want to take their businesses”.

From the retail staff to Jason, we are so proud to work at West Coast Gardens! Congratulations on your nomination!

Left to Right: Brian Goldbach, Jason Vandermey, and Jordan Graffin

Congratulations to Brian from Lancaster, New York who was named the Young Retailer of the Year.

Site Location: Peonies like full sun to part shade. They prefer 6 hours of sunlight daily. Don’t plant them any deeper than 2” below soil surface or it will not bloom. Peonies look good in mixed gardens borders, or as a specimen plant.   

Planting Herbaceous Peonies: place the root in the planting hole and start to back fill so that the upper most eye is no more than 1 ½”-2” from the top of the hole. With the root in position, water with about one gallon of water.  After the water soaks in finish back filling the hole.  

AVAILABLE VARIETIES: Images of all varieties at the page bottom. 

Sarah Bernhardt:  

(Lemoine 1906) Double, pale pink with slight red edging in the middle of it’s blossom. The flowers are fragrant and make a wonderful bouquet. Needs support.  Booms in late season, & grows to a height of 36″. 

Monsieur Jules Elie: 

(Crousse 1888)  A great flower with huge chrysanthemum-like silvery, double, rose-pink blooms.  Large & fragrant. A free blooming lactiflora, excellent for cutting. Extremely popular for over 100 years. Growing to height of 34″. 

Duchesse de Nemours: 

(Calot 1856) Creamy white, double bloom with a strong sweet fragrance.  This blooms in mid season growing to a height of approx. 32″.  Makes a great cut flower. 

Edulis superba:  

Large, very fragrant, double, satiny rose-coral-pink fading into clear red-blooms. 95cm high x90 cm w. & blooms in May. 

P. ‘Festiva Maxima’:  

(Miellez 1851) A very popular old white with crimson flecks. Large fragrant blooms. Mid-season.  

P. x ‘Pink Hawaiian Coral’:  

(Klehm 1981) APS Gold Medal 2000. Gorgeous salmon pink fading to cream. An outstanding strong stemmed hybrid for the garden. 

Coral Sunset:  

(Wissing-Klehm ’81) (APS-Gold Medal 2003) Semi-double hybrid with large flowers of an intense Deep coral-pink with an orange centre fading to apricot and then yellow undertones, blooming mid season & growing to a height of 32″.  

  Text courtesy of Celeste Paley