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Containers and Gardening In Pots

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.

Fall Gold Raspberry

Have a craving for fresh fruit or even some home-made raspberry ice cream? Well then check out our selection of Fall Gold Raspberry Bushes. A rare, exciting self-fertile gold raspberry with the same deliciously sweet taste of red varieties, and the ability to produce two crops each season. After a late summer to fall harvest, a second crop arrives the following spring on the same canes. Excellent fresh or for ice cream, preserves and pies.

By |2025-05-13T19:12:03-04:00May 13th, 2025|Container Gardening, Perennials, Seasonal Color|

Just In Time For Mother’s Day

Mother’s Day is just around the corner, and it’s time to show your mom how much you appreciate her with a heartfelt gift. We have an amazing selection of gifts that will make your mom’s day extra special. From beautiful houseplants, garden perennials, seasonal color, hanging baskets, planted containers, to flats and paks of annuals and a diverse selection of garden decor, we have something for every mom out there.

By |2025-04-29T16:12:58-04:00April 29th, 2025|Container Gardening, Perennials, Seasonal Color|

Celebrate Easter With Flowers

Easter just isn’t the same without flowers. We’re excited to announce that our Easter flowers have arrived, just in time to brighten up your home and garden. We have a stunning selection of easter flowers, cemetary pieces, easter decor and wreaths for home decorating or gifting. White lilies and tulips are popular Easter flowers, often chosen for their symbolic meanings of purity, rebirth, and new beginnings.

By |2025-04-15T17:09:37-04:00April 15th, 2025|Container Gardening, Seasonal Color|

Bagged Mulch vs Bulk Mulch

Which one is better? That was the question in an inquiry we received on social media. Herein is our reply: Hi Allison. My husband and I are the proud owner’s of Goffle Brook Farm & Garden Center. So of course I am going to recommend our store but here is why… As a general rule bagged mulch is much cleaner than bulk mulch.

By |2025-04-07T21:45:53-04:00April 7th, 2025|Hard Goods, Lawn and Garden, Seasonal Color|

Whats New At The Garden Center

Spring blooming perennials and annuals are an excellent way to establish seasonal color in the garden beds. Within are some of our new selections for the 2025 gardening season which are compatible for our climatic growing area and available at the garden center. Within are just 12 of our newest selecctions for the 2025 gardening seasons.

By |2025-04-04T11:19:23-04:00April 4th, 2025|Container Gardening, Perennials, Seasonal Color|

Primrose | Primula

Perfect for a shaded porch/patio setting and ideal as a bedding plant in any shade garden, Primroses (Primula) are early spring-blooming perennials, often appearing in March, that thrive in moist, shady areas and come in a variety of colors, brightening up gardens after winter. Primroses come in a wide array of colors, including soft shades of pink and purple, vibrant yellows, and bright crimson reds. Your primroses will blend well with other shade garden plants such as ferns, hostas, and astilbe.

Senetti | Pericallis

Kick off spring with Senetti Pericallis! A showstopper in any garden. Its bright blue flowers instantly elevate the aesthetic appeal, creating a vibrant focal point that draws the eye. One of the best aspects of this plant is its ease of care. Senetti provides high impact color when we need it the most. In vivid blues, magic magentas, ultraviolets and stunning bicolors, where else can you find vibrant color early in the season?

By |2025-03-26T07:21:07-04:00March 24th, 2025|Container Gardening, Lawn and Garden, Seasonal Color|

4th Most Popular Website and Garden Blog

GOFFLE BROOK FARM GARDEN CENTER WEBSITE - (ranked #4 in New Jersey for 15 Best New Jersey Gardening Blogs and Websites in 2025. Date of Publish - Jan 01, 2025 The best New Jersey Gardening blogs from thousands of blogs on the web and ranked by relevancy, authority, social media followers & freshness. As ranked within the 250,000 blogs and websites listed on Feedspot. #4. Goffle Brook Farms Blog

Planting a vegetable garden isn’t just for spring

Planting a vegetable garden isn’t just for spring - In this post, we’ll discuss some vegetables and herbs; all of which are available now in the garden center, to plant in the fall for a spring harvest. We’ll also include some helpful tips to make your spring vegetable garden a success.

Brain Flower – Celosia cristata

Here's an unusual plant that will liven up any garden or porch/patio container planting. Celosia cristata | Brain Flower! The crested blooms of the cockscomb give this plant its nickname of the brain flower due to its resemblance to a brain, and it comes in a variety of colors, including red, orange, and yellow. Great in containers or when planted with mums and ornamental peppers. Great long lasting seasonal color.

By |2024-08-27T11:38:03-04:00August 27th, 2024|Container Gardening, Seasonal Color|

Create A Firefly Garden Haven

Create A Firefly Garden Haven - with native perennials“To a child’s eye a lightning-bug outshines the brightest fixed star”There’s nothing that says summer like a warm, summer night filled with twinkling lights. Lightning bugs were once a fundamental part that we all looked forward to during the hottest season of the year, but in this day and age with densely packed communities and mowed lawns, it’s getting harder and harder to find these wonders of nature, those tiny little insects that became a magical and iconic part of every summer.

By |2024-08-11T15:00:36-04:00August 11th, 2024|Container Gardening, Perennials, Seasonal Color|

English Lavender Phenominal

Relishing within the aroma of English lavender wafting amidst the breeze on a warm, sunny day is one of the truest pleasures of gardening. Often considered an herb, it is actually an herbaceous perennial with a semi-woody growth habit. English lavender provides good midsummer color to the garden and is often used in perennial borders and rock gardens as well as in herb gardens and scent gardens. Excellent Pollinator Plant and attracts beneficial insects.

By |2024-07-16T10:29:10-04:00July 16th, 2024|Perennials, Seasonal Color|

4 Drought Tolerant Perennials

Within this post are four members of the hylotlephium sedum family; sedum “autumn joy“. sedum “dazzleberry“, sedum “plum dazzled“, and sedum “wildfire“. Each is drought tolerant and long blooming and all are of immense benefit as a pollinator plant for butterflies, bees, moths and other wildlife and available at our garden center.

By |2024-07-14T16:06:30-04:00July 14th, 2024|Perennials, Seasonal Color|

A Stroll Through The Memorial Garden

Over the past ten years, our website developer has been creating a Memorial Garden to honor his son’s mother. This is the latest upgrade (so to speak) of his endeavor and we at Goffle Brook are honored to share this with all of you, hoping perhaps it will inspire you to create one of your own. Within these beds one can find peace, serenity, solace, compassion, love and understanding and most of all “a reason to go forth with life” and always remember.

By |2024-06-28T18:17:12-04:00June 28th, 2024|Perennials, Seasonal Color|

Celebrate Fathers Day With The Gift of Gardening

Celebrate Father's Day with dear old dad at Goffle Brook Farms and give the gift of gardening this year. Flats of annuals are buy one get one and hanging baskets are 25% off thru June 21st of 2024. Stop by with dad and take all the time you need to enjoy his special day amidst the lovely blossoms and flowers that mesmerize one's soul in the garden center...

Mandevilla – Spectacular Blooms for Your Garden

Mandevilla – Spectacular Blooms for Your Garden - Bold and showy, mandevilla definitely makes a dramatic statement in landscapes and container gardens. This tropical vine bears a nonstop supply of large, trumpet-shaped blooms in shades of red, pink, and white. It’s also lovely in landscape beds and borders — and is frequently used to climb up and over arbors, trellises, and mailbox posts. Hummingbirds, butterflies, and bees appreciate the nectar-filled, tube-shaped flowers of both vining and mounding mandevilla varieties.

By |2024-06-10T13:56:58-04:00June 10th, 2024|Container Gardening, Seasonal Color|

Rosemary – salvia rosmarinus

If you are into herb gardening with culinary herbs, rosemary plant (Salvia rosmarinus) is an excellent choice for both the garden beds and for growing in containers. It is a fragrant herb that grows as a perennial with a rounded growth habit features slender, needle-like, grayish-green leaves on upright erect woody stem that put forth clusters of small, blue, lavender, or white flowers that appear in late spring thru early summer.

Basil Italian Large Leaf

If you are into herb gardening for culinary herbs, Italian Large Leaf Basil is a must have basil plant. This culinary herb is a sweeter pesto type basil with high yields in the garden. A large variety with medium-dark green leaves, this basil is bigger than most others found in the basil family. Very aromatic and as popular with bees and butterflies as it is with chefs, this is one of our most favorite basil plants. When compared to Genovese the flavor and scent are sweeter and less clove like.

By |2024-05-05T10:41:25-04:00April 25th, 2024|Container Gardening, Herbs, Perennials, Seasonal Color|