‘Limelight’ Hydrangea – 2025 Presale – Two Weeks Only
We are offering our most popular summer Hydrangea for pre-sale! Limelight Hydrangeas are a classic, spectacular type of Panicle Hydrangea. Presale runs until Friday, March 7, 2025. Limelights have MASSIVE flower heads that are wonderful in the garden, with the blooms...
Helene T-shirt Fundraiser
Have you seen the groovy 1977 VW Bus at our entrance? Our amazing staff includes numerous professional artists, and they collaborated to repaint the bus. We have captured this wonderful artwork on a fun light-blue t-shirt. 100% of the proceeds of these shirts benefit victims of Hurricane Helene.
Recovering from Hurricane Helene – Accepting Supply Donations
In light of the heartbreaking devastation in our community, we will be accepting supply donations at our store location. If anyone has supplies they would like to donate we will be here to accept them and redistribute them in the community!
Japanese Maples – Refined Beauties for the Garden
The beauty, the mystique… but oh the price. We do get questions about why such lovely plants are so expensive, or how old the plants are in 1 gallon pots. Let’s talk about it!
September Garden Tips
It’s September and the temperatures are cooling down! Time to break out the flannels! Check out our tips on edible and ornamental gardening, as well as lawn care and more for this month.
We Love Red Rocks!
‘Red Rocks’ Penstemon is a magnet for hummingbirds and bumblebees!
We have it planted in our Pollinator Garden and we’re constantly seeing bumblebee butts going in and out of the tubular flowers. ‘Red Rocks’ flaunts its hot pink flowers all spring through summer with deadheading, plus the foliage is mostly evergreen. It’s deer resistant and drought tolerant once established, and a staff favorite here and in our home gardens…
Attending the 75th Anniversary Mountain Horticultural Field Day
On August 15, I (Joy) was able to attend the annual Field Day at the Mountain Horticultural Crops Research and Extension Center down in Mills River. While I only attended the morning sessions, this all-day event was packed with learning all about new plants, new research, new-to-NC plant diseases, and more.
Get Your Garden Ready for Fresh Fall Veggies!
Fall is nipping at the air. Think lovely salads, collards and kale (did you know that greens get sweeter when kissed by a light frost?), broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts (so delicious roasted), peas, tat soi and more. Our delicious mix of veggie transplants are grown in super-nice organic soil from Dirtcraft Living Soils locally produced in Marshall, NC.
Prague Viburnum – A Wonderful Evergreen Shrub
Prague Viburnum, Viburnum x pragense, is one of our favorite easy-care evergreens here at Reems Creek Nursery. The leaves are beautifully textured, the color is a rich deep green, and large white flowers cover the plant in springtime. Perfect combo, right?
American Beauties Native Plants® and Helping Pollinators
Reems Creek Nursery is proud to be part of the “American Beauties Native Plants®” program and we now have our inventory available online! Our Perennial Department is taking big steps toward a safer world for our pollinators and this is one way we are committed to that.