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Click Here to View Our Monthly Special! Click Here to Print Our Special In-Store Discount Coupon! Lakewood Gardens, your source for color in all seasons. We strive to determine your needs and desires, match them with the appropriate plants and products; then offer professional advice on how to care for and enjoy your purchase.
People make the difference and we have great people. Bring us a leaf, a weed, a bug, a picture, a sketch, a gift need or just a question and we will do our very best to help you.
At our garden center, our goal is to provide our customers with a quality selection of plants, trees, shrubs and supplies for your garden and landscaping needs. We sell bulk mulches and soils and offer delivery service. Our staff is very helpful in assisting with container and garden bed design and planting and will provide essential information for successful gardening.
Gardening Tip for July 2009! The main ingredient for success in a summer garden in Arkansas is ample moisture. Flowers will continue to bloom if they have enough to drink. If summer annuals are beginning to get leggy, pinch them back and lightly fertilize. Remember when using fertilizers or pesticides that it is important to have ample moisture in the plants before applying products. If the plants are too stressed, they may take up all the chemicals and suffer burn. Heat loving annuals that are thriving now include angelonia - summer snapdragon, alternanthera ‘Party Time’, Coleus, lantana and penta. The wave petunias should also be constantly blooming, provided you have been fertilizing. These plants are heavy feeders and will stop blooming without ample nutrition and water. Impatiens need water to thrive, but will take the heat well. If you need some extra summer color, plants are still available at nurseries and garden centers statewide. Tropical flowering plants can really stand up to the heat and give you fabulous blooms up until frost. Fertilization is important - especially if you are growing them in containers. Container grown plants often need daily watering in the summer months. This constant watering leaches nutrition out of the soil quicker. Use a slow release granule and follow that up with a water soluble form. Fertilizing every two to four weeks should give you outstanding results. (This is an excerpt from the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service web site – from the Gardening Calendar for the month of July.) |
