Looks like we're in for a run of scorchers the next week and a half. Temperatures climbing into the high to mid nineties for quite a stretch with little or spotty rain forecast. Man those iced teas are gonna quench your thirst while relaxing on the patio. Don't forget your porch/patio containers and your garden beds. Chances are those plants are going to be mighty thirsty also.
Stop in this spring and put some colour in your life. - Osteospermum Akila Grand Canyon is a high-performing, drought-tolerant African Daisy mix, featuring bright 2-3 inch blooms in yellow, rose-red, purple, lavender, cream, and white, having a large floret surrounding a center disk. .
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
A native plant, Allium Millenium (Ornamental Onion) provides lots of gorgeous, butterfly-attracting flowers in late summer when the garden is most in need of color. An excellent pollinator plant with very attractive and shiny deep green foliage it has a profuse display of bright rose-pink flowered globes.
Just in time for the coming heat wave, our Super Sizzling Summer Sale is back! We have merchandise to spruce up the garden beds on sale!!! Save on all our sun/shade perennials with our buy 3 get 1 offer. Our annuals are on sale with a buy 1 flat get one flat free. All empty gardening containers are now on sale at 25% off, so now’s the time to pick up a flat or two and get double the flowers and create some unique containers for the porch/patio/outdoor living areas.
New Perennials For 2025 - They are designed to create curb appeal, give a house a settled, nestled-in appearance in the landscape, and increase a home’s value. They are the plants that establish the garden’s foundation and provide a reliable, long-term display. They are designed to create curb appeal, give a house a settled, nestled-in appearance in the landscape, and increase a home’s value. They are the plants that establish the garden’s foundation and provide a reliable, long-term display.
Container plantings are a simple and elegant way to change the look of a terrace, outdoor living area, front porch or entry. There’s no better way to do this than with colorful, beautiful annuals and perennials planted in unique and stunning containers that transform the look and feel of any outdoor living space. Decorate the outdoor areas you use the most in the warmer months so they feel like extensions of your home.
