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MY FAVORITE GIVEAWAYS: LET’S GO PLANT SHOPPING!

May 1, 2015

It’s the final day of my favorite giveaways and I want to thank you for participating this week. If you haven’t already entered to win all the great items I’m giving away, you still can. I’m leaving every giveaway open for a week from when they began, but just enter them all now and then sit back and wait to win.

If you didn’t catch them all, here’s what you missed:

Monday: The Perfect Garden Hose
Tuesday: A.M. Leonard Deluxe Soil Knife
Wednesday: Authentic Haven Brand’s Manure Tea
Thursday: Sneeboer Ladies’ Spade from Garden Tool Co.

And today I’m keeping it simple and I’m giving away a $50 gift certificate to one of my favorite nurseries. The winner can choose from a gift certificate from one of these nurseries:

Klehm’s Song Sparrow Nursery
Brushwood Nursery
Plants Delight Nursery

Roy Klehm of Klehm’s Song Sparrow Nursery checking boxes at one of their few open days at the nursery. It was a great shopping trip but most of the time I just order off the website. 

I’ve been thrilled with the plants I’ve received from these nurseries, which all also have excellent, interesting collections of plants and I think you’ll be happy with them too.

Lots of ways to win below. For your first entry, all you have to do is log in and click. More entry options are available after that for the more ambitious among you. I’ll pick a winner next Friday!

Both Klehm’s and Brushwood have excellent clematis selections. This is one of my favorites: Guernsey Cream.

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  1. Denise Langford says: May 1, 2015 at 1:25 pm

    Margaret Roach had a blog post recently about darmera peltuta. I remember her discussing it a few years ago as well, and I've wanted to try it since then. I don't know that I have the exact right conditions for it, but that hasn't stopped me before. Thanks for the great giveaways this week!

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  2. Lorna says: May 1, 2015 at 1:29 pm

    I'd love to be able to plant a clematis.

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  3. Mom Jones says: May 1, 2015 at 1:47 pm

    I love flowers & gardening!

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  4. Ms. Wis./Each Little World says: May 1, 2015 at 2:08 pm

    Nobody I like better than the Klehm's. My Guernsey Cream is loaded with buds.

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  5. joanna says: May 1, 2015 at 2:25 pm

    Wow! that would be very nice! I just got Guernsey Cream from a friend. I wonder how large it gets and how to prune it. Thank you!

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  6. Ellen Hall says: May 1, 2015 at 2:26 pm

    You got my attention when you mentioned Plant Delights – that is a wonderful nursery for those of us who live in the South.

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  7. Martha Franks says: May 1, 2015 at 2:37 pm

    I need some colorful shade plants!

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  8. Becky says: May 1, 2015 at 2:56 pm

    I want a hydrangea!

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  9. DEBBIEofPA says: May 1, 2015 at 3:31 pm

    Who wouldn't want to win plants???? I would love to add something new to my garden. I think I would look for a beautiful hosta or daylily that I don't have.

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  10. kjn says: May 1, 2015 at 3:45 pm

    I would buy an ornamental tree.

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  11. Kathy says: May 1, 2015 at 4:20 pm

    Oh, gosh . . . three excellent nurseries. I'd probably shop for peonies at Song Sparrow–as long as I didn't look at Plant Delights first!

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  12. Fiona says: May 1, 2015 at 4:36 pm

    I'd love to get some more hostas for my shade garden.

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  13. fee roberts says: May 1, 2015 at 4:39 pm

    I would get Black Coral Elephant Ear, Mini Mask Dwarf Hitchhiker Elephant Ear, and a Blue Hawaii Elephant Ear from Plants Delight Nursery.

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  14. JoJo says: May 1, 2015 at 4:53 pm

    Just saw this at a garden and Googled it. ophiopogon umbraticola (Bad Hair Day Mondo Grass). And guess who has it ?
    Plant Delights!

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  15. Lin Grado says: May 1, 2015 at 5:21 pm

    What a wonderfully generous give-away! I would love to have a gift cert from Plant Delights (or any other nursery!)

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  16. Rusthawk says: May 1, 2015 at 5:21 pm

    I would like to get the bolivienses begonia.

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  17. Jenny Patterson says: May 1, 2015 at 5:31 pm

    Oohh I am sure there is something I NEED!

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  18. momma says: May 1, 2015 at 6:06 pm

    Plant Delights, visit their open days- this weekend and next, in case you were wondering. If I had to choose one plant right now it would be the shredded umbrella plant.

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  19. Gwen Rose says: May 1, 2015 at 6:48 pm

    I would love to plant some hellebores.

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  20. Elizabeth says: May 1, 2015 at 7:20 pm

    I have to choose just one plant I want to get?? ; ) I really want to get a redbud tree, they are just beautiful!

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  21. Monica T. says: May 1, 2015 at 7:34 pm

    I have wanted to try tuberous begonias this year and a few new rose varieties.

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  22. Carol Y says: May 1, 2015 at 9:32 pm

    I would love either a new rose or a Japanese Cherry tree!

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  23. karen says: May 1, 2015 at 10:08 pm

    That clematis is outstanding. Thanks for all the wonderful giveaways this week. Be well and enjoy this gorgeous spring weather we're having here in the midwest.

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  24. Anonymous says: May 1, 2015 at 10:17 pm

    Love shopping from Plants Delight, since they're just a dozen miles or so from us and everything they grow will grow in our yard. Good luck to everyone!

    Tom aka @SolakNC

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  25. Mariann Reid says: May 1, 2015 at 11:29 pm

    I would love to have a gift card to Plant Delights. Great plants that you won't find at the big box stores.

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  26. Barb says: May 2, 2015 at 12:35 am

    Would love any plant!

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  27. Shel Bell Sullivan says: May 2, 2015 at 1:27 am

    Just moved to a new home and am starting from scratch! Would love this!

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  28. Leah Kammel says: May 2, 2015 at 2:07 am

    I love plant shopping! A gift cert sure would be appreciated! Thanks for the giveaways 🙂

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  29. Joanne Fetting says: May 2, 2015 at 3:15 am

    This is the time of year when I am itching to buy plants and have to restrain myself. I would love this!

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  30. LaJuana says: May 2, 2015 at 3:18 am

    Plants Delight s having their open house this weekend, what fun it would be to go in with the gift certificate!

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  31. Laurin Lindsey says: May 2, 2015 at 3:50 am

    Great plant nurseries. It wasn't until I started blogging that I was brave enough to get plants mail order. Now I have some really cool plants that are unique to my market. Even tried some that shouldn't work here but I am growing them : )

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  32. michelle says: May 2, 2015 at 11:24 am

    I've never ordered plants through the mail, but it may be my new favorite thing/vice. Crossing my fingers!

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  33. Joann says: May 2, 2015 at 3:31 pm

    I have been trying to get my hands on European Wild Ginger and it seems to slip through my fingers every time. Some day!

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  34. Karen says: May 2, 2015 at 6:14 pm

    That clematis is absolutely beautiful! I've always gone for the purple but I'd love to find that white one.

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  35. Anonymous says: May 2, 2015 at 7:49 pm

    what a nice finish for your week of treats for readers. I've had my eye on several beauties in plant delights' epimedium collection for a long time, but not familiar with song sparrow or brushwood. so as soon as I cross my fingers and punch the button to send this, i'll check them out. thank you for this week of fun emails. –suz in ohio

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  36. Rose Santuci-Sofranko says: May 3, 2015 at 1:12 am

    I would love to get some hibiscus and/or Rose of Sharon plants! Thanks and God bless! ILuvTheEucharist @ aol.com

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  37. Donna@Gardens Eye View says: May 3, 2015 at 11:05 am

    This another great giveaway….who doesn't love plants and great to hear you have great experience with these companies.

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  38. Kelly M says: May 4, 2015 at 1:00 pm

    Hostas !! I'm looking for new hostas this year.

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  39. lizhugo says: May 5, 2015 at 10:24 pm

    I'd love a new clematis. Mine got dug up by accident a few years ago but I haven't found a good replacement. I'm itching to get one this year so much that I've dreamt about it.

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Metal ring (inspired for years by Deborah Silver) was made by a local metalworker. 
Greens: fir, cedar, juniper and magnolia 
Branches: budded willow, cardinal dogwood and fantail willow
Garnish: pinecones, faux berries, faux amaranth and faux fuzzy ball things

My takeaway from this container is that I need more windows and a much bigger window box. 😀
This is what happens when it’s nice enough out t This is what happens when it’s nice enough out that I can actually feel my fingers. One minute you’re hanging garland like you do every year and the next minute you’re pilfering dried flowers from your hydrangeas and sticking them everywhere. 

This all started because the bay that I bought in the cartload sale at the nursery in August is still very much alive and looking good, so I transplanted it to the pot outside the garage (last picture). But it needed a little something to fill out the pot and I glanced around for what I might have and the next thing you know, I’m harvesting hydrangeas like crazy. 

If I had given the garland even a couple minutes of thought before I started throwing things in there I would have gone for an asymmetric look, but when you’re working outside in winter in Wisconsin, done is done.
If it were only this easy.😀 If it were only this easy.😀
Are you on Team Simple or Team Elaborate? For as Are you on Team Simple or Team Elaborate?

For as much as I love creating somewhat elaborate winter containers, I’d still never be without the simple ones. This is why the front of my house looks like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde were decorating. I simply can’t restrain myself to a theme or design concept. 

Anyway, this trough planter is in a spot that’s not easy to get electric to, so I don’t bother with lights. Cardinal twig dogwood, fir and magnolia are all it takes to give this the simple look I need after going nuts with other containers.
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