If you’re looking for a beautiful potted plant for this Christmas season to have around the home, poinsettias are a perfect choice. These plants provide a beautiful mix of colors, all shades being perfect for Christmas decor in any home. Along with their holiday appeal, they are also quite easy to tend to and will last for quite a bit of time.
Buying a real, fresh-cut Christmas tree at a local business is as much about the experience as it is about the purchase; and shopping for one at Goffle Brook Farms is a memory you’ll cherish for years. We have a large selection of Fraser Fir Christmas Trees, all fresh cut and of different sizes to suit all your holiday decorating needs.
Santa Is Bringing His Holiday Magic to Goffle Brook Farms again this holiday season. Jolly Ole Saint Nick will be here listening to your wish lists and offering tidings of comfort and joy to one and all. Nov 28th and 30th - Dec 6th and & 21st from 2 pm thru 5 pm
Short on space for a large Christmas Tree. We have the solution for you! These living Dwarf Alberta Spruce Christmas trees are a fantastic, eco-friendly alternative to cut Christmas Trees. Dwarf Alberta spruce (Picea glauca ‘Conica’) has a shape like a miniature Christmas tree. If you desire that holiday atmosphere with a combination elegance and fresh scents, but are limited as to space, this dwarf Christmas tree offers the utmost in cost and convenience.
Fall is the ideal season for many things, such as pumpkin carving and playing in piles of leaves. It is also the best time to newly seed or over-seed a lawn. Fall lawn care practices are essential for lawns to be able to withstand the winter period of dormancy and frost. By taking the time to care for your lawn this fall, you’ll prime it to grow greener and healthier next spring!
It's the time of the year to carve spooky pumpkins... Goffle Brook Farms has all sorts of shapes and sizes of pumpkins for this fall season. Pumpkins are not only great as a Halloween decoration, but you can cook many delicious recipes with pumpkin... here are just two we thought we would share for you pumpkin lovers!
At a our garden center you tend to meet a lot of people and I mean a lot. So we started thinking let’s give these kids are wonderful memory. Let’s give them a petting zoo. We have the room, the atmosphere, the necessities to create a safe and secure area for interaction with animals, and besides; it’s gonna be fun to do. Our Petting Zoo is designed for small children and pre-teens to have a wonderful experience especially if your child lives in a city situation. The petting zoos give the parents the opportunity to expose their children to the animals and let the children have fun.
At a our garden center you tend to meet a lot of people and I mean a lot. So we started thinking let’s give these kids are wonderful memory. Let’s give them a petting zoo. We have the room, the atmosphere, the necessities to create a safe and secure area for interaction with animals, and besides; it’s gonna be fun to do. Our Petting Zoo is designed for small children and pre-teens to have a wonderful experience especially if your child lives in a city situation. The petting zoos give the parents the opportunity to expose their children to the animals and let the children have fun.
Decorating your home with seasonal color for the fall season is more than just a fun thing to do; it could actually benefit your mental health, too. Have you ever just looked at a display of pumpkins, gourds and Halloween lights at a neighbor’s house (or even in your own home) and felt instantly happier? Well, there’s a scientific explanation for that and the reasons can be found at Goffle Brook Farms.
When we first saw this facebook post on Stacie Cahn Greenhouse's Facebook page our jaw dropped. I thought to myself "Oh my gosh, this is exactly what Mom and Dad strived for when they started Goffle Brook Farms 51 years ago. A place where happiness flourishes, where their's growth and friendships made, a place where their is love, kindness and laughter in the air."
As fall temperatures begin to cool, it is time to consider bringing in the houseplants you kept outside this summer. Every species is different, but most species commonly grown as houseplants need to come inside before the air temperatures drop below 45°F.
With summer coming to a close and autumn in the air, you may find yourself recalling the many colors of the summer garden beds. Fret not, an easy way to extend the colorful displays of nature is to plant chrysanthemums.
Whether you decide to plant them now, or planted them in the spring, chrysanthemums are a great flower to keep in your garden through out the fall for it's beautiful and varying color schemes, or for it's many uses in foods and teas.
Vegetables For Cool Season Gardening - Available At The Garden Center Now For Fall Planting. Did you know that some vegetables thrive in cool weather and really won’t do well in the summer heat? The cool season is an ideal time for growing vegetables. Choose from broccoli, arugula, collards, kale, kohlrabi, radish beets, leeks, bunching onions, turnips, lettuce (buttercrunch, green leaf, red-leaf, romaine), bunching onions and more. Within a few short weeks, you will have a basket or two of some of the healthiest leaves, root crops, and vegetables that Mother Nature can provide.
Plant ornamental peppers to spice up your garden or containers with long-lasting color. Bushy, glossy green foliage and colorful fruit that stand in upright clusters at the end of the stems combine to create an outstanding ornamental plant. The fruit comes in shades of red, purple, yellow, orange, black or white, and the peppers change colors as they ripen, so you may see several different colors on the same plant.
Come Sunday, September 7th from 1–4 PM, Frank “the beeman” Mortimer will be at the garden center for a sweet afternoon full of honey samples, live bees 🐝, and bee-rilliant facts about our favorite pollinators! It’s a fun, sticky, and educational time for bee-lovers of all ages! The Beeman will be ready to answer all your buzz-worthy questions and share the sweet science behind honey-making. 🍯
How do butterflies and bees pollinate plants? Butterflies pollinate by transferring pollen from one flower to another as they fly from bloom to bloom in search of nectar. When a butterfly lands on a flower to drink nectar, pollen from the flower’s anthers can stick to the butterfly’s legs, body, or proboscis (a long, tube-like tongue). As the butterfly moves to another flower, this pollen can rub off onto the receiving flower’s stigma, facilitating pollination.
Every year as summer winds down, we feel a familiar sense of disappointment as we prepare ourselves for cooler weather and a less vibrant color palette in the garden. But don’t despair! Fall holds its own special kind of magic, and we have some great suggestions for adding color to your late-summer garden. For vibrant late summer to early fall color, consider incorporating plants like asters, black-eyed susans (Rudbeckia), chelome (turtlehead) and helianthus into your garden.
Kalimeris incisa – Blue Star Aster has dasiy-like flowers with a yellowish-brown central cone bears multitudes of single 1″ pale blue flowers July into late August/ early September, and if deadheaded can encourage a longer fall bloom. The flowers attract butterflies and pollinators and will also feed the birds in winter with their seed. Blooms are good for cut flower or dried flower arrangements. Tolerant of heat and humidity it is considered drought tolerant and makes for an excellent border plant.
Another native perennial for mid-summer through early fall color is Agastache - Poquito Orange. Agastache thrives in full sun and well-drained soil. Aromatic foliage, long blooming, this perennial is deer and rodent resistant due to its aromatic fragrance. With its spectacular orange blossoms is contrasts nicely with Allium Millenium (Ornamental Onion) blue flowers, also a native pollinator plant.
