WINTER LAWN AND GARDEN COLUMBUS OHIO
Make Your Home and Garden a Winter Wonderland
Your home and garden needn’t be bereft of beautiful blossoms and abundant plant life just because it’s winter. At Strader’s Garden Centers, we have everything you’ll need to keep your surroundings filled with bright colors and visual interest throughout the colder months of the year.
Delightful Outdoor Flowers and Shrubs
Camellia Japonica
While many other plants and shrubs in your garden show off during spring and summer, the camellia japonica comes into its own during the winter with its white, pink, red single or double flowers with rich deep green leaves. Some hybrid varieties have petals splashed and streaked with pink and white markings. Stunning!
Crocus
Crocuses love the colder temperatures of wintertime. These easy-to-grow blooms create a truly dazzling effect as they push through the snow to show off vibrant shades of white, yellow, orange, lilac and deep purple.
Hellebores
Known as Lenten Roses for their rose-like blossoms, these beautiful and cold-hardy flowers can survive temperatures as low as 5-degrees Fahrenheit. They should be planted before the ground is frozen in winter. And with colors ranging from white, green, pink, apricot and purple, they will flower throughout the winter months and continue blooming right up through spring.
Primrose
Practically an all-weather plant, the primrose can flower throughout the year so long as they’re planted in a shady, cool spot in your garden. But it’s during the winter when temperatures are cooler and direct sun isn’t so harsh that they come into their own with rainbow bursts of color to brighten even the dreariest of winter days.
Red Twig Dogwood
Practically an all-weather plant, the primrose can flower throughout the year so long as they’re planted in a shady, cool spot in your garden. But it’s during the winter when temperatures are cooler and direct sun isn’t so harsh that they come into their own with rainbow bursts of color to brighten even the dreariest of winter days.
Snowdrop
The name says it all. These charming little white blooms atop elegant 3 – 6-inch stems, are sturdier than they look. If planted in the fall before the ground freezes, you can expect to see snowdrops appear in your garden even before the last winter snow has melted.
Winterberry Holly
This deciduous shrub can grow from 6 – 10-feet tall and wide. Its deep green foliage turns yellow and golden during the fall, and disappears completely during winter giving way to a proliferation of small, jolly bright red berries. Perfectly festive for winter.
Brighten Up Winter with Indoor Plants
African Violet
This popular flowering plant is a great choice as an indoor winter plant, where it actually performs better than when placed outdoors. They are perennials and with proper – and quite simple – care they will flower during the winter, several times throughout the year, and return year after year.
Christmas and Thanksgiving Cactus
Unlike its cacti brethren of the deserts and plains, these succulent plants cannot tolerate dry, arid conditions or direct sunlight preferring rather indirect light and a humid environment such as in a bathroom. Thanksgiving cactus flowers tend to bloom in late fall through mid-winter, while Christmas cactus flowers bloom in early to mid-winter.
Impatiens
Often thought of as a landscaping plant, impatiens can be brought indoors and grown as container plants throughout the winter months. They like moist, well-drained soil and a nice sunny perch with bright, in-direct sunlight.
Jasmine
According to Confucius, “The jasmine has the most delicate scent of all flowers.” And it’s easier than you think to maintain that delicate fragrance and beautiful flower in your home throughout the winter. It’s best to start growth outdoors before bringing it indoors for the winter. Keep it in a cool environment and the soil moist with at least six hours of indirect sunlight each day.
Poinsettias
There’s no reason why you can’t keep your Christmas poinsettias growing after the holidays if you follow just a few tips. Give them plenty of bright, indirect sunlight and limit extreme changes of temperature. They like humid conditions – after all they’re from Mexico and Central America – so you might want to mist them between waterings. If you want the bright red bracts to return in time for next Christmas, keep your plant in complete darkness for up to eight hours a day between evening and morning starting around Labor Day.
Wax Begonias
Some begonias go dormant during the winter months, while others such as the wax begonia will bloom if brought indoors before the cold weather arrives. The transition from outdoors to indoors can be stressful for the plant which can cause leaf loss. But give the plant time and good care, and the leaves and colorful blooms will reappear throughout the winter months.
Find the Perfect Christmas Tree
Strader’s Garden Centers carry a wide variety of life-like artificial trees and fresh cut Christmas trees ranging in size from adorable miniature table-toppers to room-filling show-stoppers.
Balsam Fir
The Balsam Fir is one of the most popular choices among Christmas trees. The tree’s scent is very “Christmassy,” its blue-green needles are tinged with silver, and it has great needle retention.
Colorado Blue Spruce
Stiff branches are great for holding ornaments, while its very sharp bright blue needles keep curious pets at a distance.
Eastern White Pine
While a handsome, full Christmas tree, the Eastern White Pine has less fragrance than many other varieties of holiday trees. Moreover, its slender branches are best suited for very light-weight ornaments.
Fraser Fir
A very family-friendly Christmas tree, its silver-green needles are soft to the touch and won’t poke children or pets. The branches are adequately close together which helps support the weight of Christmas ornaments and the tree’s shape is consistently triangular.
Grand Fir
Lush with glossy, long, dark green needles, its branches are relatively soft making it less suitable for bearing the weight of heavy ornaments. However, it’s full of fragrance that will keep your home smelling like the holidays.
Scotch or Scots Pine
Bright green and with excellent needle retention (even when dry), the Scotch or Scots Pine is considered by some to be the perfect Christmas tree. Its branches can carry mid to heavy ornaments, its soft needles are much less prickly than many other varieties of Christmas tree, and it will perfume your home throughout the entire holiday season.
As with all fresh Christmas trees, watering is vital. Consult the dedicated and expert staff at your local Strader’s Garden Center about what holiday trees, shrubs and winter plants are best for you and how to care for them. And remember to get your tree-stand, tree preserver and tree bags while you’re here.
As with all fresh Christmas trees, watering is vital. Consult the dedicated and expert staff at your local Strader’s Garden Center about what holiday trees, shrubs and winter plants are best for you and how to care for them. And remember to get your tree-stand, tree preserver and tree bags while you’re here.
Don't Forget the Holiday Gifts and Décor
Wreaths made from the branches of evergreens such as pine and juniper, intertwined with sprigs of bay leaves, rosemary and winter flowers are a great “welcome” to hang on your front to greet friends and family throughout the winter and holiday season.
Holiday-themed planters, Christmas tree ornaments, and seasonal plants make great gifts. Visit your local Strader’s Garden Center to browse and shop during this “most wonderful time of the year.”
Holiday-themed planters, Christmas tree ornaments, and seasonal plants make great gifts. Visit your local Strader’s Garden Center to browse and shop during this “most wonderful time of the year.”
