This Saturday, February 14th!

Come join us and give our desert tortoises some love this Saturday, February 14th.

  Kids Garden Club starts at 2pm at all of our Star Nursery locations!

Will you be there?

Traditionally Non-Traditional

Anemone

If giving roses for Valentine's day isn't your style, check out some of our other plant-able gifts!
Bright red Anemone would be a bold centerpiece in a thoughtful potted arrangement.

Pink Chinese Jasmine Heart Topiary

This vining Jasmine's light pink fragrant flowers are intoxicating! It would be a beautiful addition to a backyard entertaining or dining area. Make a candle-lit dinner even more romantic with this

 heart-shaped beauty.

Purple Shamrock 

The Purple Shamrock, also known as the "love plant", is delicate with sweet purple heart shaped leaves and gets the prettiest little lavender flowers. This is perfect for that special someone that tends to forget to show their plants some love as they can take a couple missed watering sessions. Makes an excellent houseplant!

Stop by your neighborhood Star Nursery for more Valentine's Day gift ideas!

Are you Rose Ready?

Ahhh roses. The quintessential Valentine's day flower. Have you been giving the same cut roses to your sweetheart year after year? Are you ready to change things up a bit? Sure, long stemmed cut roses are beautiful in a vase, but they don't last very long and by the time they've reached the end they're in a pretty sad state. 

Consider giving a rose that keeps on giving year after year. 

Roses do extremely well in our desert landscape and once they are established they can be quite drought tolerant. They look beautiful intermingled with everything from evergreens to desert natives. 

They're also an excellent addition to a container or balcony garden. 

Sweetest mini roses

Mini roses are too cute to pass up and are an excellent answer to a small space.

With so many varieties in color, height, fragrance and shape, you're bound to find something to impress even the most particular connoisseur.

If your better half is already tending to a rose garden of their own, try adding to their collection of already patent or non-patent roses. What could be sweeter than gifting that coveted color that your special someone has been longing for? An assortment of tools, gloves, or flower producing fertilizers would round off a total gift package. 

Paradise Rose

See our Starnote on Rose Selection Care and Planting.

Happy First Friday!

Join us tonight at First Friday! 

The Star Nursery Kids Garden Club will be out doing a free bulb planting activity. Come stop by Casino Center and California in the Kids Zone from 6-9pm.

Hope to see you out there!

Young and Young at Heart

Studies have repeatedly shown that gardening is healthy for us in numerous ways. 

It gets us a little exercise, keeps our air clean and it gives us the ability to nurture something, which helps keep our minds sharp and adds to a deeper sense of purpose and well being. 

These things are important whether you're 8 years old or 80 years young. So we got together with the Nevada Adult Day Healthcare Centers and two eager Girl Scout troops and their families to spend some time and do some intergenerational planting together.

We had a blast making recycled newspaper planters to house some flowers for everyone to take home. The scouts and the seniors worked side by side rolling and taping and getting their hands dirty.

The NADHC has an amazing staff that is always on the forefront of creativity when it comes to making crafts out of recycled materials. Their centers are bright and cheery with lots of artwork on the walls and tables made by the seniors themselves.

Thank you to everyone who participated in the planting and

 thank you to NADHC for always being an inspiration!

This Saturday, February 7th!

If you've experienced some plant damage or loss this winter you won't want to miss our free Saturday seminar on Taking Care of Frost Damaged Yards..

Visit us at any Star Nursery location at 10am or 2pm.

Don't forget to bring your photos!

Looking Good!

Ok, so we're looking at six more weeks of winter. One look at these winter greens and I say bring it on! I took a trip over to our demonstration garden bed at Craig Ranch Regional Park and noticed that the winter has been very kind to us. We have lots of greens! This bed was planted this past October with romaine lettuce, pak choi, asian greens, sweet peas, red and green cabbage, spinach, and broccoli raab.
These hearty greens are pretty tolerant of the cold temps that we get toward the end of December and into January.

This bed is a demonstration for our monthly seminars to teach anyone who is willing and interested to learn about growing fresh veggies here in our desert.  Thank you to all of our friendly fellow gardeners who water this bed for us!

Our next seminar will be Sunday February 22nd at 10am. See the full schedule here. It's free to attend and you don't have to be a member of this community garden to participate. This garden has been getting a lot of media attention recently and it's no wonder why. Take one trip and you'll know that the folks who rent these beds are not only devoted to tending to their plants, but they're creating an inviting space with personal touches that welcome all who enter the garden.

If you'd like more information about obtaining your very own space in this neighborly and inspiring garden, call 702-633-2418 or click here.

Hope to see you out there!