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Customer Appreciation – Garden Party. June 15/13

Visit any of the stores listed on this website, and with purchase of $20.00 or more receive a coupon for 40% of any one regular priced item – Valid June 15/13. Come in 5 days. Get 5 Coupons.
*some restrictions apply, see store for details.

This Victoria Day Weekend is the perfect weekend to get out into your garden. Plant now to enjoy color throughout the summer. For the seasoned gardener, we have everything you need to start your own seeds or put together your own hanging baskets. Not so confident about your gardening skills, we can help — our knowledgeable staff is eager to offer advise. Like to have a colorful garden, but don’t have the time to plant it up yourself; be assured we have a great selection of hanging baskets and pre-planted pots – just looking for a home. Visit us today! And have a wonderful long weekend.

Fall Gardening Tips
It’s time to get ready for the cooler weather by giving your lawn a little extra attention. Apply Art Knapp Fall feeder 3-6-12 to ensure your lawn is ready for winter. This specialty premium lawn fertilizer will promote winter hardiness, disease resistance, and supplies slow release Nitrogen for optimum fall colour and promotes an early spring green up

Spring creations begin in autumn! Now is the time to plant your spring blooming bulbs. Bulbs never disappoint as they are so easy to plant and grow. Check out digdropdone.com for helpful tips on how to make your spring garden a success. Art Knapps has a great selection of tulips, crocus’, daffodils’, iris’ hyacinths’ and more. Don’t forget to come in and ask our staff to show our collection of exotic bulbs and companion collections.

Fall is a wonderful time to enjoy your garden. After cleaning your flowering annual plants, brighten up your garden by planting pansies. Check out the cherry-oranges and yellows, soothing-blues, contrasting white and vibrant purples. Come in to see the fabulous faces of our pansy collection.

Oh the joys of Autumn! Asters, sedums flowering kale and pansies, we have it all for fall! Come in for a ready made planter or a beautiful garden mum! – Either will enhance the “welcome” experience to your home. Just imagine the joy it will bring to you, your family and friends when you place one outside your front door!

See you soon.!

Spring is the time to choose from one of our hundreds of colouful hanging baskets, we have a variety of moss, wooden planter and plastic basket available.  Plant your outdoor annuals, perennials, bedding plants including herbs and vegetables now for beautiful summer flowers and bountiful vegetables.

May and June are the best months to get your landscaping started.  Art Knapp Plantland has a full selection of trees and shrubs and knowledgeable staff that will asssist you in the designing and planning of your garden.

Remember, spring is the perfect time to fertlize your lawn and garden.  We recommend Art Knapp labelled products for the best  success.

Our stores provide you with undercover greenhouse environments for your shopping pleasure.  So even if it rains you can shop comfortably – with the anticpation of planting when it’s dry.

First of all LIME your lawn with FABULAWN PELLETIZED DOLOMITE LIME  to neutralize the acidic build up in soil attributed to our wet winters.

Second, THATCH, POWER RAKE and AERATE your lawn.  Thatching in the spring removes all dead grass at the bottom of grass blades.  Dead grass is responsible for disease and hosts insects, both detrimental to a healthy lawn.  Power Raking gives lawns a tight ‘haircut’ encouraging new growth to develop from the root system.  After thatching and power raking, be sure to FERTILIZE with any of these products:  13-16-10,  13-5-7 LAWN TREAT or 24-4-16 FABULAWN lawn food.  Unlike National brands, these Fertilizers are developed for us by a BC company specifically for West Coat and Vancouver Island lawns.   These fertilizers will get your lawns out of their winter dormancy.  The last step, requires you to wait a week, and then to over seed your lawn to make it lush and thick.  Why do we want a thick lawn?  The thicker the lawn – the less room for weeds or moss to appear.  (Remember, lawn seed only germinates in the warm weather)

Once your grass germinates you have to cut it at least 3 times.  Use 24-4-16 Fabulawn once every 6-8 weeks until mid September to keep it lush and green.  A 3” thick lawn is ideal because it keeps roots cool and moist through the warm summer and autumn months.

When watering your lawn in during the hot months (late spring and summer and early autumn), water at dusk only, as this is the optimum time for effective watering, you will require less watering, and there is less evaporation – so it also saves water.

Between mid September and mid November be sure to use 6-3-12 FALL FEEDER and DOLOMITE LIME  to ensure a strong, healthy and acid controlled lawn going into our uncertain temperate winters.   Again these fertilizers are developed for the West coast, recognizing that some National brands, high in Nitrogen have been responsible for a problem referred to as snow mold in West Coast lawns.