This lovely Easter Basket is full of spring flowers that will burst with color indoors, and be ready to go outside for a spring full of garden color. There will be a mixture of spring bulbs, a pansy garden with violas, lobelia, alyssum, and dusty miller, white "birch" branches, and a colorful butterfly.  Enjoy inside for Easter or spring beauty, then disassemble and plant the components outdoors.

Click here to see Tiny Tim perform his famous song on Laugh In for a blast from the past!  I actually met Tiny Tim at a conference about 20 years ago, ukulele and all! Click here.

An encore performance of one of last year’s popular classes featuring an Endless Summer Hydrangea in a blue glazed pot. Endless Summer is the best hydrangea for New England.  Unli8ke the older varieties, this is a true breakthrough.  If flowers on same-year wood, so there is no need to worry that the plant had winter die back, the number one cause of hydrangeas not blooming in Central Massachusetts.  (cape Cod and Rhode Island are just enough warmer that they don't have a problem with winter injury, which is why they are so beautiful down there!)

We will be planting a "bare-root" hydrangea in the blue glazed pot, and topping it off with a few pansies for a little color until the hydrangea comes into bloom this summer.

Add love to your shady spot with perennials:   You will plant two different kinds of bleeding heart  (the tall, showy variety, and the dwarf, non-stop blooming variety) along with false forget-me-nots with airy, blue blooms and heart-shaped leaves. We will be using bare-root perennials, and top the pot off with a few pansies for instant color until the perennials sprout.  Enjoy this pot until early summer, then find a nice, shady nook that needs brightening, and plant the whole root ball together, or split the plants apart.

Pink and blue make a lovely combination in the early spring garden.

If you are a fan of the TV show "House" like I am, you may or may not realize that Hugh Laurie had a lead role in the movie Stuart Little, where he plays his version of Heart and Soul on the piano with Michael J. Fox as Stuart. Click here.

Sure, I like the Beatles version of this song, but there nothing that compares with the Marvelettes version! Click here.

Fragrant sweet peas climb & mingle amidst edible snap peas grown on a twig trellis with a selection of crisp salad greens & edible flowers.  Sweet peas have got to be one of the prettiest flowers that nature has created.  You don't see them very often, because most people don't realize that they should be planted very early, since they thrive in cool weather.  Same thing for edible peas.  You really want to plant them in early April.  Most folks who don't know any better try to plant their whole vegetable garden around Memorial day, but peas and lettuce LOVE April and May weather!

Who can resist this message from the legendary John Lennon? Click here.

Make a hypertufa pot by mixing cement & other wet ingredients to create an “old stone” planter. Pick up and plant when dry Wear old clothes.

We will mix peat moss, perlite and Portand cement, add water to the correct consistency, and form it into a low, irregular bowl.  It will take about 2 days to dry.  Pick it up at your convenience, and plant a selection of sedum and hen's & chicks - all dry-tolerant, perennial plants that thrive on neglect.  So you can put this pot almost anywhere in the sun, and not worry if you hose doesn't reach it!

Tina has been making these planters since she learned how 30 years ago (!) in her high school greenhouse club.  She will show you her own, 30 year old planter she still has from that time.

I've always enjoyed the music of ELO, and wish the band was played more on the radio today. Click here.

Apparently, this song was the number one requested song of the troops in WWI.  The only reason I know the song is because Barry Manilow plays it in concert when it rains at an outdoor venue.  When I looked up an original version, I found out that little tidbit. Click here.

Colorful pansies and other cold-loving annuals and perennials combine in this cheery porch or patio pot.  This picture is very generic, but rest assured that this will be a stunning, well-designed pot of Thrillers, Chillers, Fillers and spillers!

This 16 inch faux whiskey barrel bursts forth with crisp salad greens, herbs & broccoli early, and onions & gourmet potatoes at season’s end.  This is a really nice resin container that I got a great deal on in Baltimore, so I bought 60 of them!  Not only will this container look pretty, you will harvest your own food!  It's locally grown when it's your own!!

Our herb classes are some of our most popular classes at Bemis Farms Nursery.  We get emails all the time with people telling us how fast it filled in, and how many herbs they were able to harvest from it. 

Sign up early...jars are limited, and I can't get any more at the great price I got in Atlanta at the gift show!

I can't say I'm a big fan on the Rolling stones, but who doesn't know this song? Click here.

Join the grow-your-own food craze by planting this 3 tier cascade of ever-bearing, perennial fruit, and you’ll have strawberry fields forever! Some strawberry varieties take a year to get established, but the ever-bearing types make fruit the first year.  We will be using three plastic pots to create these tiers, but, trust me, you won't even see the pot much after the plants have filled in!

Living wreath of pansies for a door, wall, fence, tree, or on top of a birdbath. Also makes a wonderful centerpiece on an outside table.

There is a really expensive living wreath frame on the market that will set you back about $50 for the frame and plants.  Leave it the folks at Bemis Farms Nursery to find a way to make an even bigger wreath for almost half the cost!

One year, we had 100 people sign up for this class, so sign up early if you want to come at 4pm.  Chances are, we will be adding more times to this class to accommodate everyone, and give you the help you need to do it correctly (yes that really is Tina in the picture.  It is about 10 years old, when I had long, dark hair with no grays!  My bookkeeper thought I was wearing a wig!

I got to see this song performed on Broadway by the cast of The Lion King, and it is an experience I will never forget.  The costumes in that musical were beyond description. Click here.

Lately, we have been listening to a lot of country music up in the growing greenhouses while we are planting, because our work/study student, Amanda, is a big fan.  I had never heard this song before, but it is really nice, and the guy isn't too hard on the eyes, either! Click here.

Choose your favorite color clematis, our favorite perennial vine, to race to the top of this tall, twig trellis you will make yourself. Plant colorful spillers below to keep the roots cool, a necessity for successful clematis growing.  At the end of the season, plant in the ground in nice, sunny spot, and this plant will last for years.

Another blast from the past featuring Jigsaw. Click here.

Are you going to plant parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme in this two-tiered assembly of ten different culinary herbs?  This is the actual picture of Judy Ruszinski's pot she made last year.  It's so full, you'll never know there's a plastic pot under there so we could splurge on more herbs!

Thanks, Judy, for the picture.  When can I come over for a swim and a nice salad made with those herbs??

Here's Simon and Garfunkle's classic rendition of the song. (Click here) Here is a bit of fascinating info I found on Wikipedia:

I used to listen to this song by the Monkees when I was very, very young.  I was SOOO in love with Davy Jones! Click here.

Is it a fairy bed, a squirrel pillow or just a garden tapestry filled with a mixture of perennial Jeepers Creepers in a low, copper square?  This square is about 18 inches across, and very, very classy looking.  In fact, it should probably be a deluxe class, but I so enjoy splitting the groundcovers in the greenhouse in March to make enough plants for this project, that I want a whole bunch of people to sign up!

Plant this 16 inch moss hanging basket with a wide assortment of the latest spillers to create one huge explosion of colorful blooms.  You'll get to pick what color scheme best matches your hose.

Ladies and gentleman: Frankie Valli! Click here.

Attract hummingbirds &  butterflies to a wooden window box or English hayrack with plants chosen to beckon winged wonders.  We have plenty of both containers to choose from.  The picture shown is the English hayrack.  You will be able to choose colors to match your home.

And lastly, here is Melissa Ethridge. Click here.