GardenHouse Spring Opening!

The new 10,000 sq ft retail greenhouse at Hoerr Nursery is currently launching its Spring Opening. The greenhouse is open all year long, as is Hoerr Nursery. But spring is when it really bursts into life. It is full of hundreds of hanging baskets, and row after row of annuals, herbs, vegetables, tropicals and beautiful containers of mixed plants radiant with colorful foliage and flowers.

Customers arrive throughout the year looking for ideas for their gardens. The theme of the GardenHouse Spring Opening capitalizes on meeting that quest in their customers. The theme is: IDEAS! On Friday, April 18, and Saturday, April 19, there will be resource staff people available in the GardenHouse prepared to answer questions from customers. Stations will be set up with and stocked with material on roses, herb gardens, information on landscape design, container gardens, small space container gardening –like fairy gardens, and more.

A Hoerr Nursery IDEA Breakfast April 18 and 19, will feature a continental breakfast at 9-10 am Friday, and at 8-9 am, Saturday. The free breakfast will allow customers to grab a bagel, muffin, orange juice, and coffee or water, and informally meet with Hoerr Nursery garden and landscape experts. There’ll be ideas and an opportunity to resolve issues about customers’ gardens and landscapes. There is no charge for the experts or the breakfast and no sign-up; just arrive at the nursery for the first hour of each day. First come, first serve. Experts will accommodate as many customers as possible.

“We are excited about this IDEA Breakfast. This is the first time we have done this breakfast, so we don’t know exactly what the turn out will be, but we are excited about it,” said Mason.

Other events on Friday and Saturday include:

Fri., April 18

9 am IDEA Breakfast: Come for a free continental breakfast and talk to expert resources with questions you have regarding your spring garden. Resource people available to talk to you about everything from roses to lawn care, ponds to containers, landscape design, fountains, annuals, trees and more! We have special offers on Lawn Care Annual Program contracts, and Design Consultation charges. Plus, Scott’s rebates available with qualifying purchase. Just pop in, bring your questions, help yourself to a free continental breakfast and get your answers.

10 am Paintings from your Garden: Watercolor painting demonstrations about painting mini-paintings for note cards, post cards, or little mini-paintings to set on a table or mantle. Your mini-painting will make a great gift with an herb basket or custom container. Learn from the demo on how you can paint your own notes. Award-winning artist, Jane M. Mason, will be conducting the demo. There'll be a prize-drawing at the end of the demo for free boxes of Jane's note cards. (Only Jane will be painting at this session. She will have a Supply List available for you to create your paintings at home.).

1pm Cooking with Herbs Secret Chef, William More, will be using herbs tableside while preparing some great samples for you to try. Recipes will be available for using fresh herbs in your culinary expressions. Herb special available all day! Buy 3 4IP (approximately 3” – 4” pot) Herbs and get a fourth one FREE. While supply lasts.

4 pm Container How-To for Maximum Punch! Container expert, Kris Hermann will demonstrate preparing your container, selecting plants, adding elements for that “WOW!” appeal, and answering questions about watering, fertilizing and sun/shade considerations. Special on annuals, Quickstart perennials, herbs and concrete containers!

5pm Paintings from your Garden: Watercolor painting demonstrations about painting mini-paintings for note cards, post cards, or to set on a table or mantle. Make great gifts with an herb basket or custom container. Learn from the demo on how you can paint your own notes. Award-winning artist, Jane M. Mason, will be conducting the demo.

Saturday, April 19

8 am IDEA Breakfast: Come for a free continental breakfast and talk to expert resources about questions your have regarding your spring garden. Resource people available to talk to you about everything from roses to lawn care to design, fountains, annuals, trees and more! Specials Lawn Care Annual Program contracts, Design Consultation fee, and Scotts rebates available with qualifying purchase.

10 am Container How-To for Maximum Punch! Container expert, Kris Hermann will demonstrate preparing your container, selecting plants, adding elements for that “WOW!” appeal, and answering questions about watering, fertilizing and sun/shade considerations. Special on annuals, Quickstart perennials, herbs and concrete containers!

11 am Cooking with Herbs Secret Chef, William More, will be using herbs tableside while preparing some great samples for you to try. Recipes will be available for fresh herbs in your culinary expressions. Herb special available all day!

WHEN CAN WE PLANT OUTSIDE?

“Just like everyone else, we are so eager for warm, sunny spring weather to get here! Many of our plants are perfect for planting right now. Many of annuals and the tropicals need the weather to catch up,” said Jane Mason, Marketing Director. “Our last likely frost date is May 15—basically a month from now—so fragile plants put out now may get nipped by frost. It’s tempting to put everything out now. And you can, just be aware that they might need to be replaced if we get a frost.”

WHAT ELSE CAN YOU DO UNTIL YOU PLANT OUTSIDE?

Rake out any debris in your perennial or annual beds.
Prune any “suckers” popping up around your trees and any broken stems or canes.

Clean and sharpen your tools. Replace or repair tools that are broken.
Mulch your annual and perennial beds. The plants will push through it.
Mulch around your trees. Create a circle of mulch that starts about 4” – 6” from the truck of your tree (never mulch up to the trunk) and extends a foot or two out.

Hoerr Nursery was established by D.A. Hoerr, 82 years ago. Today, the 3rd generation owns and operates the Central Illinois business. The business includes a nursery for growing shrubs and trees, an award-winning Landscape Design and Installation Department, a Lawn Care/Maintenance and Irrigation Department and an award-winning Garden Center with a StoneMarket and a new GardenHouse, a 10,000 sq ft retail greenhouse.

Hoerr Nursery

8020 N Shade Tree Drive, Peoria, IL 309-691-4561.

Garden Center and GardenHouse open: 9-6 M-Friday and Sat 8-5pm.

Closed on Sundays.

Named one of the 100 Most Revolutionary Garden Centers in the USA by Today’s Garden Center Magazine for 3 Consecutive Years.

Quite Simply. Amazing.

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