Hello from Sunlight Gardens, your premiermail order source for wildflowers, ferns, vines, perennials, and shrubs of eastern North America. We grow hardy, robust plants that will beautify your gardens and support a diversity of wildlife. We can help you succeed by providing you with solid information, a great selection, and high quality plants. Our plants grow! And rest assured that all our plants are entirely nursery propagated. Our goal for 2008 is to grow the best plants for you in the most sustainable way. One way we will conserve natural resources is to reduce the amount of materials we print - including our catalog. We no longer print a full color, glossy, 36 page catalog. Mailing, paper, and ink costs have sky rocketed along with oil and fuel prices. You can, however, download a copy of our 2007 handbook and catalog to your own computer, if you prefer, and print it out yourself. Our web site is secure. You can order on-line or if you prefer, you can print an order form or use the one in our price list, and send us your order via snail mail. And for those of you in the states to whom we cannot ship plants due to cost and agricultural restrictions (AK, AZ, CA, HI, ID, NV, OR, UT, and WA), please feel free to download the pdf version of our handbook and study the web site for information purposes. SHIPPING HAS RESUMED! Yea, it's a bit cooler. While there may not be a perceptible change in the weather in early September, there is a big change in almost everyone’s attitudes and psyches because we have all been conditioned for the start of the school year. No matter how old you are, things just are different after Labor Day. So we say our goodbyes to summer, whether we had a vacation or not, and anticipate cooler weather. For a fleeting moment, we may actually even get a little more organized and start preparing for winter. But in the mean time, fall is a GREAT time for planting perennials. Soil temperatures stay warm long after nighttime temperatures start to dip, and these are perfect conditions for encouraging rooting and establishment of new plants. In fact, in general, FALL IS ACTUALLY THE BEST TIME TO PLANT MOST PERENNIALS. Give plants 4 to 6 weeks of establishing time before your first frosts, and see how much better fall plantings will do the following year. Our featured plant for September is turtlehead which thrives in moist places throughout the southeast. In September, they are in full flower with bright rose or white flowers that resemble large snap dragons. Give them full sun or a little shade and plenty of moisture. Be thinking rain garden, stream or bog edge, drainage ditch, or water hose, here. They are easy to grow, will spread happily and look great with these companions. |
| This Month's Featured Plant | |
Turtlehead, Hot Lips 'Hot Lips' Turtlehead is a selection of the species that differs in having deeper green foliage and bright, deep pink flowers. Otherwise it's quite similar - 2 to 3 feet tall, late summer flowers, prefers average to moist soil and full sun. A great fall combination is 'Hot Lips', 'Fireworks' Goldenrod, and Hardy Ageratum or Smooth Aster. click here |
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| Good Companions for Turtlehead | |
| Conoclinium coelestinum compact form | Wild Ageratum, compact mistflower |
| Lobelia cardinalis | Cardinal Flower |
| Dichromena (Rhynchospora) colorata | White Star Sedge |
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| Native Plants | Showy Berries & Fruits |
| Good Fragrance | Evergreen |
| Good Fall Color | Semi-Evergreen |
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Our 2008 Price List will be mailed soon Request a Price List by mail or download a .pdf Price List (2.8 megs) Our 2007 catalog is available as a .pdf. Catalog: SunlightGardens2007.pdf (7.9 megs) Order Form: SunlightGardensForm.pdf (80 k) Browse our catalog alphabetically by either the latin or the common name. Match plants with your conditions of soil, light, water and more click here to search All our plant descriptions include the temperature zones in which each will thrive. Look at our Hardiness Zone map to determine which zone number matches your location.
Are deer a problem? These plants are generally not tasty to deer. Drought Tolerant Just getting started? Try something easy to grow. Got a green thumb? Want a challenge? Try something difficult or tricky. Or try something not too hard. |
