At Stanley’s Greenhouse, we have a long history of “growing together” with our customers. It’s not only our business, but also our passion. Over the years, we’ve dedicated ourselves to offering market-leading varieties of flowers and plants to our customers.  With that in mind, we are pleased to offer many beautiful and improved mums for fall color.

“Yolanda” is a soft yellow mum with a slight infusion of bronze. “Vanna” is, you guessed it, snow white. “Dazzling Stacy” offers a daisy-like flower with a vibrant, eye-catching orange color. “Brandi Burgundy” has excellent color retention on mounded plants. These are but a few of the new selections available this fall at Stanley’s and this year’s crop looks excellent! Remember, our plants are not shipped in from some far off location, but grown right here on site in South Knoxville!

-Monte Stanley

Pansies, Violas, and Euphorbia for 2011/2012

In these recessionary times, customers are looking for value in their discretionary spending as never before. Rest assured, when purchasing pansies and violas in the fall, you are making a very good investment. These plants will give the gardener color from fall through spring. That’s right, the freezing winter temps do not faze these survivors in East Tennessee!

New pansies this fall include “Matrix Diamonds Mix”, a soft mixture of white and primrose with a vibrant splash of lemon yellow that will brighten any garden. “Matrix Ruby Mix” has rich burgundy, rose, and white bicolors. “Dynamite Pink” is another new variety, compact with pink free-flowering blooms.

Viola “Orange XP” is new this year and a much more vigorous grower than the viola “Orange Delight”, which it replaces. Viola “Sorbet Delft Blue” is another new viola for 2011/2012 with a delicate porcelain blue color.

At Stanley’s we have increased the quantity of the “Plentifall” trailing pansies for the fall season. They proved to be so popular and such vigorous growers last year, hopefully we will have enough to go around! Plentifall pansies make a nice spreading groundcover and is a great spiller in mixed containers. New for 2011/2012  is the “Plentifall Mixture Improved”, which offers purple, white, and yellow favorites!

“Fall Magic” includes a series of frost-tolerant perennials that continue to gain popularity as gardeners enjoy their unique colors, textures, and blooms all winter long. All plants from the Fall Magic line work great in combinations whether used in planters for the porch, patio, or window boxes. Included in this year’s selections is a new euphorbia called “Ascot Rainbow”. Like most euphorbias, they bloom in late winter through spring with unusual chartreuse flowers.

Whatever it is that you need for your garden or planters this fall and winter, Stanley’s Greenhouse is sure to offer you a variety of plants that promise both beauty and hardiness to carry you through next spring!

-Monte Stanley              

Pansies and violas are by far the most popular flowers to plant in the fall. Not only do they bloom in fall, but continue to add color and inspiration throughout the winter, the exception being the few sub-freezing weeks in mid January and February.

They usually bounce back and beautify the garden until mid April to May, at which time warmer season annuals can be planted. All of our pansies, violas, and panolas are grown on site here at Stanley’s. Unlike other garden centers where the plants are shipped in. Purchasing locally produced plants grown by professionals assures a quality product and decreases your carbon footprint, helping us all breathe a little easier.

	“Plentiful” is the first trailing pansy series from seed featuring a flat spreading habit, perfect for fall and early spring baskets and containers. We have these in three separate colors as well as a mix.
	“Matrix mix Ocean Breeze” is a refreshing mix of light blue, dark blue blotch, ocean and white blotch pansy. “Ultima Apricot Shades” is sure to be popular with peach, apricot, and melon colors on compact, well-branched plants.
	Viola “Penny Primrose Picotee” is sure to be a hit with purple outer petals and a charming bright yellow whiskered face.
	Viola “Penny Lane Mix” ; like all violas they bounce back quickly from cold winter storms.

	Euphorbia “Blackbird” has velvety foliage that darkens to near black in full sun, which contrasts exceptionally well the late winter/early spring yellow-green flowers.
	Euphorbia “Ruby Glow” also has dark almost black foliage with bright red new growth. Yellow flowers appear in March through May.
	Euphorbia “Tasmanian Tiger” rounds out this trio of euphorbia for fall planting. It is a spectacularly colored, variegated foliage euphorbia. Tall pale green stems support cream white flowers with green bow-tie centers. All euphorbias are vigorous growers that are heat, sun, and drought tolerant.

Each season Stanley’s introduces new plants to the East Tennessee market, and Spring 2011 is no exception. Growing annuals ourselves, on site, gives us this option.

A sampling of new and exciting annuals includes the following: 

For the exotic tropical plant lover, Dwarf Cavendish and Rowe Red banana trees and Xanthosoma Lime Zinger, (chartreuse elephant ear). 

Other colorful foliage annuals to brighten the garden such as Perilla Magilla Vanilla received rave reviews at the UT Trail gardens last year.

Coleus continue its resurgence in popularity, and this year we are adding to our usual super selection with Fishnet Stockings, Golda, Emerald & Snow, and Pink Chaos.

With novelty geraniums, the gardener can have both interesting foliage as well as unique flowers. We will have three new additions; White Mesh, Solo, and Persian Queen.

Attracting butterflies and hummingbirds to the garden adds an element of life and motion as well as being just plain fun to watch.

Nectar- rich flowers are the answer, and particularly useful and new this year are Million Bells Calibrachoa, Superbells Peach and Superbells Plum. These are hummingbirds’ favorites. 

Pentas and Lantana are hard to beat for the hot summer days and butterflies love them. New pentas include Monarch Bright White and Violet.

Lantana Tropical Fruit is a new variety, sure to bring the butterflies all summer long and even into the fall.

Cuphea is a genus that is receiving a lot of attention lately, with its small orchid-like flowers in abundance. Flamenco Tango has deep pink flowers, and Susan’s Little Gem with small pale plum flowers, are new this year. These are sure to please the gardener who wants to try something different.

At Stanley’s, gardening is our passion, and to encourage others in this favorite pastime is our goal. Our slogan at Stanley’s is “Our Business Is Growing!” 

Come see us this spring… you won’t be disappointed.