Due to the unusually warm weather we have been experiencing this fall it is very important to water any and all evergreen plants in your landscape. We are recommending you water your evergreens once a week while these warm conditions exist. Give your plants a deep soaking in their root zone or drip line. It especially important to water newly planted plants. Watering deciduous plants will also increase their survival rate. For more information and specific questions please give us a call at (406)727-0950. Happy New Year!
 A great selection for all of your gift giving needs! Stop into Forde Nursery for all of your garden lover’s gift items. Gardening kits,
gift certificates, pottery, garden decor and stocking stuffer ideas are all available here!
 Perennial Kit #1  Perennial Kit #2  Trees and Shrubs Kit  Children's First Garden Kit  Native Wildflower Kit (Montana)  Garden Kit  Container Gardening Kit
FALL SALE!
All apple and pear trees are 20% off. Fall is a great time to plant your orchard so stop in to see our great selection today.
Visit the nursery to see our brilliant fall colors appearing throughout our displays and inventory. Other items are also on sale including select perennials 50% off.
2012 Spring Bulbs have arrived!
Choose from a wide selection of bulbs including Tulips, Allium, Croccus, Anemone, Iris, Narcissus, and Daffodils.
When planting bulbs, be sure to follow this planting guide to achieve a great bulb crop in the spring.
- Choose healthy bulbs. Avoid bulbs that are dry and withered, spongy or moldy. In general, the larger the bulb for its type, the more flowers.
- Choose an appropriate location. Most flowering bulbs prefer full sun, but that can be almost anywhere in the spring, before the trees leaf out. So don’t overlook a spot that seems perfect, just because it’s a bit shady in the fall. Woodland bulbs (Anemone nemorosa (Woodland Anemone), Arisaema (Jack-in-the-Pulpit), Erythronium (Dog’s Tooth Violets), Galanthus (Snowdrops) and Trillium) prefer a bit of cool shade.A well-drained soil will prevent the bulbs from rotting in cool weather.
- In areas with cold winters, you can plant bulbs as long as the soil is soft enough to dig a hole. However they will have more time to begin growing roots if planted before mid-November.In areas without a freezing winter, you may need to purchase pre-chilled bulbs, but you won’t have to plant your bulbs until early spring.
- Plant with the pointed side up. The pointed end is the stem. You may even be able to see some shriveled roots on the flatter side. If you really can’t tell, don’t worry about it. The stem will find it’s own way, sooner or later.
- Plant bulbs to a depth of about 3 times their diameter. For Daffodils, that’s about 6 – 8 inches. Smaller bulbs can be planted to a depth of 3-4 inches and so on.
- Mix some bone meal or superphosphate into the soil at the bottom of the hole at planting time, to encourage strong root growth. You could mix in some water soluble fertilizer as well, but it’s not necessary if you’ve already amended your soil.
- If rodents tend to eat your bulbs, you can try sprinkling some red pepper in the planting hole. A more secure method is to plant your bulbs in a cage made of hardware cloth. The roots and stems grow through, but the rodents can’t get to the bulbs. Make it easy on yourself and make a cage large enough to plant at least a dozen bulbs. Or you can make it really easy on yourself and stick to daffodils, which rodents and most other animals avoid.
- Replace the soil on top of the bulbs. Water the bulbs after planting, to help them settle in and close any air pockets. Through the fall and winter, you only need to worry about watering your bulbs if you’re having a particularly dry season. Come spring, you should be well rewarded for all your efforts.
Tips:
- For A Natural Effect: Bulbs look best in clumps or drifts. To get a natural looking effect, either dig a large area and plant several bulbs at once or simply toss the bulbs into the air and dig holes and plant where ever they fall. You’ll be surprised how well this works.
- Mark Your Plantings: To make sure you don’t disturb your bulbs by trying to plant something in the same spot, mark where and what you have planted.
- Spring Care: When your bulbs have finished flowering, cut back the flower stalks to ground level. It can get ugly, but let the foliage of your flowering bulbs dieback naturally. Resist the temptation to cut it back while still green, but floppy. The bulb needs this time to photosynthesize and make food reserves to produce next year’s flowers.
- To Divide Bulbs: Many bulbs spread and increase, making the original planting over crowded. If your bulbs are flowering as well as they used to, this is probably the case. If you wish to move or divide your flowering bulbs, the safest time is when they enter their dormant period. This is usually just after the foliage completely dies back. Dormancy is brief, even though nothing is happening above ground, so don’t put this task off.
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THE 2nd PERENNIAL ROOTSFEST AT FORDE NURSERY!
Saturday, August 27 – 5:00 – 10:00 PM
Mark your calendars for Great Falls’ musical event of the summer!
Great food, beer, and wine… and, of course, incredible music…
Featuring Americana/roots music legend Jimmy LaFave from Austin, TX.
Opening for Jimmy will be award winning, Canadian roots-rocker, Romi Mayes.
Last years show was nearly sold out, so get your advance tickets at Forde Nursery, Machinery Row and Wines By Wednesday. Tickets $20 in advance; $25 at the door.
For information on this show call Forde Nursery at (406) 727-0950.
Happy Mother’s Day!
Mother’s Day SALE!
Buy one 4″ perennial and get one FREE!
New plant material has arrived and all we are missing is you.
up to 50% off selected plant material
Stop in and check out all of our great hardy plant material!
Offer good May 7-8 2011 only
ALL POTTERY is on sale! ONE DAY ONLY – Saturday, April 30th 2011.
20% off all regular priced pottery items
Seminar begins at 9:00am, here at the nursery!
Pots for Your Porch – The Art of Container Gardening
Guest Speaker: Lucia Christie, Skagit Gardens – Mount Vernon, WA
Everyone’s favorite “flower child”, Lucia will show you how to design and plant beautiful potted displays. Buy the plants and soil for your pots today and we will provide free container design and planting. (Good today only)
What a week! On Monday and Tuesday we received 3 truckloads of plant material, and now we’ve got even more. Two additional trucks are filling our yard on Thursday and Friday as well. We have unloaded additional shipments of balled and burlapped, container, hand-ball, and bare root trees, a large variety of perennials, and flats of annuals. The cold weather has prolonged spring fever, but the nursery is ready to go! Stop in to leap into spring today! We are now also open 7 days a week!
We had 3 trucks stop by the nursery and leave lots of plants to fill our shelves this week. We received shipments of container trees, shrubs, and perennials that are acclimated to our current cold temperatures and ready to plant today! More trucks are arriving weekly so check back often for our updated inventory.
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