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Experience our Greenhouses!
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The sun is shining and it's time to plant! We have grown a fantastic crop and we want you to experience our greenhouses! Our goal is to help you be successful with your plants. For you, this may mean offering you better quality plants, more interesting or new varieties, helping you with a gardening problem or offering advice and tips. However we can help, we can and we are confident that you will be happy with our selection and quality of plants and our helpful, friendly service.
We invite you to stop by the farm or visit us at Creemore Farmers Market for the area's best selection and best quality annuals, veggies, herbs, perennials, hanging baskets and planters. Our greenhouses are neat, clean and organised - come over soon for the best selection!
Our goal is to help you be successful with your plants!
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Hundreds of hanging baskets and planters!
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Buy from a grower!
 In our greenhouses, you will find a huge selection of hanging baskets and planters to choose from! We are proud to design, plant and grow all our own containers. Designs are formulated over the winter and the planting process starts in early March so that by now all our containers are full, beautiful and ready to find new homes! By growing all our own product, we have full control over varieties, colours and quality of plants. It also means that we have the freedom to grow new varieties and design new combinations to keep the choice fresh.
All our containers are grown in a potting mix containing a special water holding gel to help reduce watering requirements. Every container has been top dressed with slow release fertilizer to ensure that even if you do not fertilize (and for best results you should), the plants should still thrive throughout the season. You can be sure that when you buy a mixed container from us, it has been well grown and will flower all summer until the frost arrives or after. All plants are chosen to be compatible together. Our containers are grown to last!
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Great choice of veggie and herb plants!
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Enough to satisfy any appetite!
We have grown over 70 varieties of veggie and herb transplants, including a wide range of heritage tomato plants. Over the winter, I spend numerous hours researching the best varieties to grow. There are so many varieties to choose from, and not all seeds are created equally! If a variety is selected to be grown by us you can be sure that we are confident it will perform well in this area. All our veggies and herbs are started from seed in March onwards in our own greenhouses and grown on with care until they are ready to leave home. They have not been treated with any chemical pesticides.
If you are new to veggie gardening, do not be intimidated! Veggie gardens do not have to be huge and a lot of work. Growing your own veggies is rewarding, fun and healthy. We can give you plenty of tips to help you be successful. Give your garden the best possible start and check out our veggie selection soon!
We have grown over 70 varieties of veggie and herb transplants.
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Lily Beetle and Lilactree Farm Garden Days
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Comments on the lily beetle and Lilactree Farm Garden Open Days May 24, June 7 and 21 in Mulmur
Katie,
Your piece about lily beetles was both helpful and depressing. Many gardeners have abandoned growing lilies because the struggle is too time-consuming and messy. But may I suggest that if (a) you have lots of free time (as I do) and (b) are willing to get some blood on your hands (as I am) that all is not lost. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lilies grow here so you will understand that we have a considerable interest in this problem. Here are some suggestions, beginning with the good news.
LBs do not like to get up early or stay up late; not much point in sailing into the garden at dawn or dusk. Nor are they fond of cold weather, so you can stay inside with a book when it's unpleasant for you, as for them. Don't worry if you lunge for a beetle and miss it. True, it will disappear, but my experience suggests a heart-warming conclusion: a fallen beetle is as good as dead, and will rarely, if ever, return to attack that lily. For reasons that probably have much to do with my eyesight, LBs congregate along paths and walkways where they are easily detectible and accessible; they appear to enjoy - up to a certain point - human company.
What I believe is critical is to get after them before they become comfortable. I see very little of the mess that you describe in your posting and I think that is because I tackle them when they first appear. In cool spring sunlight they are often somnolent and can be picked off easily. Later, as they become more elusive, I adopt a slightly different technique, which is to slide firmly my first and second fingers on one hand around the lily stem below where the LB is sitting so that should I miss it with my other hand it cannot fall to the ground but falls, wriggling, somewhere in the palm of my hand or between my fingers. It is crucial then that you forget about plunging the poor creature (it means no ill) into soapy water or beer suds or maple syrup, but that you swiftly bisect it with a sharp finger nail. You can then discard the bits as a warning.
I roam through the garden once or twice a day with LBs specifically in mind but I also watch out for them as I make my way to other tasks. The lily foliage will often have small holes in it (which could come from a variety of foes) but is seldom disfiguring, especially as the lily grows in height and strength. I have no hope of defeating the LBs but, for the moment, I can continue to enjoy lilies in the garden. Please come and see them - the lilies, that is - on our Open Garden days of May 24, June 7 and 21.
~ Brian Bixley, Lilactree Farm
Learn more about the Lilactree Farm Garden Open Days |
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We're open daily May 1 to June 14
9am to 5pm
Visa, Mastercard, Interac, Cash or Cheque accepted
Gift certificates available – great idea for your favourite gardener!
See us at the Creemore Farmers Market
Saturday mornings from May 16 to June 13
www.cutdriedflowerfarm.com |
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See you at the flower farm in Glencairn
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