...I say potahto.  Let’s plant both of these veggies and some herbs in individual plant sacks with a pretty floral pattern. You will leave the class with two sacks.  They are about a foot tall and 18 inches wide, and have little flowers on them. This includes several bamboo stakes to train the plants up.

 The video I have for this class is called Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off, and comes from the classic movie Shall We Dance with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.  Most people know the song as You say Tomato.

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Pick a hayrack or urn & join our container club! Plant it now, and again in the fall, and at Christmas with greens.

 I chose this Frank Sinatra song as the name of this class, because not only do you get to choose your own pot, a hayrack window box or a concrete urn, but you get to customize the plants to match your home. This is our very best value class, as you get to return in the fall and plant your container up with fall plants, but also again at Christmas, when we put fresh greens, berries, cones, and a big red bow. 

If you have trouble keeping your window box watered in a hot, place, try this combo of tough plants in this 24 inch resin window box.  There will be enough spillers in this pot that you will never know the pot is plastic once the plants grow in.

Everything you’ll need to grow this stunning, annual black-eyed Susan vine 6 feet tall. Taller, if you’ve got the place for it, so if you want to grow it up a front porch or deck railing, go ahead.  I’ve seen them get 10 feet tall

Don’t you just love the Everly Brothers?

This session is FULL, but an additional session has been scheduled for 2 pm on the same day. 

If you have a shady side you need to brighten up, try this window box combo with impatiens, and colorful coleus. Also done in a 24” resin window bow, with enough spillers that you won’t see the box once the plants fill in. 

The video for this song comes from a great movie called Eddie and the Cruisers.

Bring an empty (!) bottle of wine to attach to a nanny stake watering aid to add to your pot with a climbing grape vine.  What the heck is a nanny stake? A terra cotta stake that you attach to a bottle filled with water.  The water slowly drips out, keeping the pot watered even when you forget! This will be in a 16 inch resin pot with spillers planted in it which will cascade down over the edge.

Second picture is simply to show the nanny stake in use.

 This is my favorite version of this song.

Plant chartreuse Margarita sweet potato vine and marguerite daisies in this cute, wooden wheelbarrow.  The wheelbarrow is very similar to the picture shown. From end to end, it measures 28 inches long.  The part holding the plants is 14 inches long by 11 inches wide. You should have this wheelbarrow for several years.

This session is FULL. No more wheelbarrows are available. 

If eating chocolate boosts your love-life, what happens when you design a pot with chocolate foliage with contrasting flowers?  I really, really love brown foliage, and the picture really doesn’t do this class justice. The pot we will be using is a 16 inch resin pot, but, once again, most of it will not be showing once the plants fill in, because the chocolate sweet potato vine is an aggressive spiller.

I’ve loved this song since I was about 8 years old!

Create 3 standards & 1 braided topiary out of coleus, daisies, & more. Each tree grows 3 feet, and eventually make a nice houseplants. For now, you can enjoy watching these plants grow all summer outside.  They won’t look like much when you leave class, because we will be starting with plants that are about a foot tall.  But we will show you how to prune them to quickly grow to 3 feet tall, and how to braid three plants into one.

I once heard a tape of the Bee Gees perform this song when they were kids, but I couldn’t find it online.

Have a bare spot on an outdoor wall? Fill it will this upscale, metal wall basket. Choose plants for sun or shade.

This is one of my favorite Monkees songs.  Michael Nesmith was the original singer, but in this rendition, he did not join the other three boys for the reunion tour.  I guess he got tired of being treated like a monkee!

Be this first in your neighborhood to create this colorful crane with pink polka-dot plant to add tasteful whimsy.

This session are both FULL, but additional sessions have been scheduled for 11:30 am on the same day, as well as 7 pm on Thursday June 18.

Fairies don’t own lawnmowers, so they use Jeepers Creepers groundcovers when creating easy-care gardens in bowls.

I thought we might change around our fairy house class this year, and create a fairy garden in a bowl.  I will try to find some doll house accessories to add to our gardens, but everyone will leave with at least one fairy to put in their garden.  If you want more, we have a huge selection of affordable fairies to choose from.

This song comes from a very nice animated movie called Thumbelina.  Why do I know this song?  Well, the whole musical score was written by none other than Barry Manilow!  I just love all of the songs in this musical, so if you have nothing better to do, find the rest of them on You Tube.  Better yet, pick up a copy of the video if you have small children.  The tunes are very catchy, and the message of the movie is inspiring: Always Follow Your Heart.

Angel’s  Trumpet  Brugmansia is a true collector’s plant. Can grow 5 to 8 feet tall, and is easy to winter over indoors.  This is truly a traffic-stopping plant that belongs in all plant collector’s gardens.  You can make cuttings from this plant very easily and share the plants with your friends.

The video clip comes from my favorite movie of all times: Back to the Future starring Michael J. Fox.

Lots of people have metal stars on their homes, but you can have a living star with   assorted. succulents.  This star measures 18 inches across, and the actual sample is here at the nursery. (Everyone has been oohing and aahing over it.)  I made one to take a picture of for the flyer, because I’ve never seen one before. When I found this cool frame at the Atlanta Gift Show, I just knew we had to fill it with succulents.  It took me a while to make it, and because of that I put a $79 price tag in the finished star.  Since it will be your time used to make it, you can have your own for only $29.  There is a company in California that makes 16 inch living wreaths with succulents and sells them online for $350!!  Aren’t you glad you don’t live in California?

This session are both FULL, but additional sessions have been scheduled for 11:30 am on the same day, as well as 7 pm on Thursday June 25.

Create a low, freeform tufastone pot with a wet mixture of peat moss, cement and perlite. Return when dry & plant succulents. If you prefer, you can create a taller tufastone molded on an upside-down pot.  Either way, bring plastic gloves, and wear clothes that can get cement on them, because this can be a messy but very rewarding project.  The pot will dry in about 2 days, so you can return then to plant it up with 4 perennial succulents that will fill out the pot during the summer. You can take them out for the winter and plant them in your garden, and dig them up and return them to you planter in the spring.  Make sure to ask to see my 30 year old tufastone pot I made in high school.  My high school greenhouse club teacher taught us how to make tufastone pots, and we used to enter them in the Philadelphia Flower Show.  I made one and gave it to her, and when I saw her last year she gave it back to me!  Isn’t that cool? 

The 4 pm session is FULL, but an additional session has been scheduled for 2 pm on the same day. 

A complete water garden in a ceramic pot using a dwarf version of King Tut Papyrus (Baby Tut) and much more.  The picture happens to show a Bird of Paradise plant, which will not be in the pot, but it was the only pictue I could find with a Baby Tut Papyrus in a water garden in a pot.

 If you have never seen Steve Martin perform this song, you are in for a real treat.  If you have, watch it again for a blast from the past.   

Cast a concrete birdbath out of a giant leaf such as rhubarb, castor bean, and pumpkin, and return when hard to paint it.  This is always a popular class, so if you happen to have a patch of rhubarb, let me know if you are willing to share some leaves.

 Remember when Michael Jackson was a cute, little boy?

Whether this concrete cast reminds you of Mother Nature, or a Garden Goddess, it will bring calmness to your garden. It will be made with a variety of leaves around a concrete face.  Return in 2 days to paint it.