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Painters is Now Closed Until Spring New This Week October 11, 2026 Thank You for a Wonderful Fall! Painters is Now Closed Until Spring Painters is now closed for the late fall and winter seasons. We appreciate all of you who came to shop with us and source your plants from us this year! We love to grow healthy and happy plants for your gardens and homes and appreciate the trust you put in us to do so. As the planting season wanes, another planning season begins—and we’re already looking forward to next year! If you're as passionate about planning your next garden as we are, we’d love your thoughts! Click the link below to leave us some super quick feedback, and be sure to put March 3, 2027 on your calendar for our spring reopening! See you in March! Vote Here: A Quick Survey Current Availability Click for Plant Lists

Since 1973 Painters Greenhouse has supplied Western North Carolina with high-quality, locally grown plants. Located just off the beaten path our seasonal family-owned greenhouse is known for its focus on native and pollinator plants, mature houseplants, and wide selection. Grown Locally to Thrive Locally Home: Welcome and Newsletter Signup Thanks for a great Fall Season! See you next Spring: Spring Season 2027 March 3 - June 27 SIGN UP FOR THE PAINTERS NEWSLETTER Subscribe to our newsletter! CLICK HERE TO GET THE DIRT NEW THIS WEEK Thank You for a Wonderful Fall! View More New This Week Painters is Now Closed Until Spring Painters End of Season Sale View More New This Week Celebrate our Final Week of Fall Season with Savings for You! Favorite Flowers for Pressing View More New This Week Painters Staff Picks MORE WEEKLY NEWS GROWN LOCALLY TO THRIVE LOCALLY For 49 years our family business has supplied WNC with high quality plants. We grow more than 90% of our plants on site. Our goal is to provide plants grown with intention and sustainability for our community. LEARN MORE GROWN LOCALLY TO THRIVE LOCALLY For over 50 years, our family business has supplied WNC with high-quality plants—growing more than 90% of them right here on-site. Our goal is simple: to offer plants grown with intention, sustainability, and deep care for our community. READ MORE A FOCUS ON NATIVES Planting native is a wonderful way to support a biodiverse ecosystem in your backyard — from the bottom to the top of the food chain. We're proud to offer one of the largest selections of homegrown native plants in WNC! LEARN MORE WHAT WE GROW Described as a paradise for plant lovers, we have over 100,000 sq. ft. of growing and retail space and cultivate over 1,000 species on site. We grow our plants with care and intention and sell direct to our faithful retail customers. Our plants are inspected and watered by hand and don't suffer shipping damage or transport from another climate. We are widely known for our focus on natives and pollinator plants, our vast selection of perennials (over 900 varieties), our giant Boston Ferns, and our lush houseplant offerings. PLANT LISTS FROM OUR BLOG A Quick Show of Hands... The Midas Touch: Why Goldenrod is Garden Gold Garden Detox: Ousting the Invasive and Welcoming the Natives MORE FROM OUR BLOG Follow Us on Social Media @PaintersGreenhouse WHAT PEOPLE SAY Dana C. Painters is a treasure! Their staff and owners are fantastic! Their plant selection is enormous and it's clear they take deep pride in what they do. Barb S. I have never been to Painter's and NOT been thrilled! Even this early in the season the selection was amazing, and as always, the staff was friendly and very helpful. Left with a car full of treasures! Britt T. Best greenhouse around WNC. Helpful employees, great selection and prices. A must visit

NEWS & EVENTS Thank You for a Wonderful Fall! Painters is Now Closed Until Spring Painters End of Season Sale Celebrate our Final Week of Fall Season with Savings for You! Favorite Flowers for Pressing Painters Staff Picks Betsy’s Best: 8 Feature Favorite Houseplants ALL On Sale in this week's Massive Houseplant Sale! Rare & Unique Trees You Can’t Miss This Fall (Pretty sure Sara ordered them just so she could buy one of each…) 1 2 3 4 5 1 ... 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 ... 21 No events at the moment

New seedlings at Painters We've closed for the season but are already looking toward next spring, and we just wanted to poll the porch real quick. Here at Painters, the moment we shut our gate, we start next season's work (sometimes even sooner than that!) We clean and mend and tuck the plants into their winter homes. We order seeds and plugs, chart out planting schedules, and review what worked and what needs tweaking. If you are the type for dreaming forward or looking back, share your feedback in this briefest and broadest of surveys! We value your input! First up, next season's added tomato choices: Chef's Choice Bicolor An F1 hybrid indeterminate beefsteak with high disease resistance and heavy yields. Fruits are 7-12 oz, yellow exterior with pink striping throughout flesh, sweet-savory flavor. Pink Berkley Tie Dye An heirloom indeterminate beefsteak variety bred in CA. Fruits are 8-16 oz, dark pink/purple skin with green striping, sweet-savory flavor with balanced acidity. *We really value your feedback and do our best to source requested items when we can get them! Thanks for your suggestion. And this isn't the only time you can weigh in. Contact us via our website when we can help! We appreciate you supporting our small family-owned business. https://www.paintersgreenhouse.com/contact-us

Callicarpa americana Callicarpa americana berries, close-up American beautyberry is a fast growing, native, deciduous shrub mostly known for the magnificent violet-magenta berry display in late September and early October. The bright berries are a color not often seen in nature and their arrangement of tight clusters around the leaf nodes are just as unusual. While not one for stunning fall color, the anemic looking green leaves will quickly turn yellow before abscission, but the loss of leaves unveil the colorful, bright berries. The shrub is high-impact visually, a trait that benefits both the viewer and wildlife when planted en masse. Callicarpa americana, American Beautyberry Since the blooms and berries are borne on new growth, pruning is best done in late winter before leafing out. Prune down to 6-18” from ground if you’d like to keep the shrub looking its best. If left unchecked, the shrub can reach up to 8 feet tall and wide. American beautyberry does tend to get a little scraggly as it ages and benefits from a cleanup each year with removal of dead limbs at the very least. American beautyberry is considered a pioneer species, often appearing in open areas after land is cleared. This makes it an exceptional beneficial species as it provides a source of nutrient dense food for birds, mammals, and other wildlife in a landscape that could be going through transition and may not have a bounty of food or shelter at that moment in time. Nectar and pollen in early summer blooms attract native bees and butterflies. Pioneer species are generally tough plants that can handle volatile conditions. Beautyberry is highly tolerant of fire, drought (once established), and heavy browsing by animals. But with the hardy traits comes an intolerance of shade, so it often declines when mid-story vegetation is dense. When planting in the landscape make sure to keep the shrub at the edge of the woods or in open areas. Callicarpa americana flower close-up American beautyberry is a host plant for the rustic sphinx moth, spring azure butterflies, and snowberry clearwing moths. The fruit are high in moisture content, protein, and fat and provide food to over forty species of songbirds including American robin, cedar waxwings, warblers, finches, and the eastern towhee as well as mammals including armadillo, foxes, opossum, racoon, and squirrels. The fat content in the berries means amazing fuel for migrating birds in fall and winter when the fruit are present. American beautyberry has 70% fat content in the berries--as a comparison spicebush has 50% and native dogwoods have 25%. Asian beautyberries only have somewhere around 5% fat content. Asian beautyberries were introduced to the US in 1845 and are often found in commercial and home landscapes. (Painters even once carried the Asian variety. We all are learning and growing in our journey!) Not only are they considered invasive, but they can also hybridize with our native beautyberry. The hybridization can weaken the berries' nutritional value, favorable nesting habitat, palatability to host caterpillars, decrease berry size and the overall genetic strength of our native American beautyberry. You can identify Asian beautyberries by their looser fruit clusters that dangle further from the stem and ripen much earlier than the American species (August/early September). The branches on the Asian species are longer and weeping in habit and do not support nesting as much as the native species. One American beautyberry shrub can bear 3-5 pounds of fruit in one season and it’s not just enjoyed by wildlife, but humans as well! The fruit is not juicy, but more of a pithy pulp with a mild sweet taste with spicy notes, similar to Asian five spice. Harvest when the fruit tastes best after nighttime temps have dipped in the low 40s, but before fruit has experienced multiple freezes. You can find several recipes online for extracting the juice and making jelly, here's a great one: Growing Conditions and Quick Facts: Abundant berries from Callicarpa americana NAME: Callos means “beauty” and carpos means “fruit”. NATIVE RANGE: Distributed through the southeastern United States from Texas east to Maryland. It grows in the Caribbean and northern Mexico, too. FUN FACT: American beautyberry has antibacterial and pest-deterring properties. Native American tribes used roots, leaves and branches to treat malarial fevers, rheumatism, stomachaches and dysentery. In the early 20th century, farmers would crush the leaves and place them under the harnesses of horses and mules to repel mosquitoes. Crushing leaves and rubbing on your skin can also deter fire ants, ticks, deer flies and mosquitoes. Some people are allergic to the hairy leaves and it may cause contact dermatitis--make sure you’re not allergic before applying directly to your skin. The two compounds responsible for the repellant are callicarpenal and intermedeol. GROWING CONDITIONS: SOIL Prefers well-drained, moist soil rich in organic matter, but can tolerate sand or clay soils, too. Appreciates mulch to help keep roots protected and moist while becoming established. Handles a wide range of pH levels (4.8-7.0). SUNLIGHT Full sun is best for fruit production, but can tolerate light shade HEIGHT/WIDTH 3-8’ tall and wide--size can be easily managed with pruning in late winter/early spring ZONES (6)7-10 – American beautyberry is intolerant to cold temperatures in single digits or below, especially in younger more susceptible plants. If growing in zone 6, planting in a container and moving under cover in the winter could be beneficial.

The best time of year to plant trees and shrubs is fall, and this includes your fruit bearing trees and shrubs! As we enter the fall season, the more moderate temperatures, increased chances of rainfall, and less intense sunlight reduce transplanting stress and allows trees and shrubs to focus their energy on root development. The cool air and warm soil stimulate root growth and can help your trees and shrubs become established in the landscape before the ground freezes. Fall planting gives you an extra growing season before the stresses of summer heat. We love planting perennial edibles—nothing feels better than harvesting food you've grown, and planting edible shrubs and trees is an investment not just for ourselves, but for future generations. Plus, you're not just feeding yourself, you're feeding wildlife (sometimes more than you'd like)! Here at Painters one of our favorite and most reliable perennial edibles are blueberries. These fruiting bushes are native to our region and relatively easy to maintain once planted. Even the smallest yard can find space for a couple blueberry bushes. I’ve seen them intermixed with other shrubs in formal landscapes since they provide ornamental value (fall leaf color and pretty blooms beloved by bees), while also keeping the fruit closer to the house for ease of harvesting. Growing conditions and pollination preferences Planting Site: Blueberries have a very shallow, fibrous root system, and knowing this will help set you up for planting success. Since 90% of blueberry’s root system in is the first 6” of soil, you’ll need to provide very loose soil to help the shrub develop an extensive root system. Blueberry bushes cannot tolerate extended periods of standing water. The soil at the planting site needs to be well-draining, with organic matter mixed into the top 6” of the planting site. If your planting site is heavy clay, it may be best to install raised beds. Plant blueberries on mounds or on ridged rows to help with drainage. Apply pine mulch (needles, woodchips, bark) at the time of planting to not only protect the shallow root system and to conserve moisture during high temperatures, but to also contribute to the acidity of the soil. Apply mulch 3-5” deep around the base of the bush, making sure to leave 3” around the trunk clear from mulch to prevent insect, disease and pest problems. Sunlight: Blueberries prefer full sun (at least 6 hours of direct sunlight). Partial shade can be tolerated (preferably in the afternoon) but may cause plants to produce fewer blossoms and less fruit. Space the bushes appropriately by taking note of the mature width of the varieties you plant. Leave enough space between the bushes so adequate air flow and sunlight can be attained at full size. Cross-Pollination: Most blueberries need a pollinating partner of a different variety within the same species. Take a look at the pollination chart below to help match blueberry partners. Even the ones that are “self-fruitful” would benefit from another blueberry planted nearby—they’ll often bear more fruit with the presence of a neighbor. Note: not all blueberries on the chart are currently in stock; the chart includes varieties sold at our greenhouse over the last couple of years to help customers match pollinating pairs to existing ones they may have in their landscape. There are three types of blueberries: Rabbiteye, Northern Highbush, and a hybrid of the two – Southern Highbush. Rabbiteye (Vaccinium ashei) The name comes from the rabbit-eye appearance of the pink, immature berries. These blueberries are native to the southeast US Gulf coast states. Rabbiteyes are well-suited to warm climates and can tolerate heat, humidity, drought, and a wider variety of soils than Northern Highbush. These bushes are vigorous growers, and some can reach up to 15-20’ tall! Rabbiteyes bloom earlier and take longer to ripen. The fruit itself is larger with mild/moderate flavor and described as sweet. Rabbiteyes have slightly tougher skin, but this provides better storage life. Rabbiteye varieties in stock at Painters during our Fall 2026 season: Pink Lemonade. Northern Highbush (Vaccinium corymbosum) Native range includes northeastern US and parts of Canada. The first cultivars were first selected from the wild in NJ; they are well-adapted to colder climates and are the best species for WNC residents in the mountains and at higher elevations (>2500ft). These cultivars often do not grow as well in the piedmont or coastal plains of NC due to the soils and mild winters. Northern Highbush blueberries require a certain number of chill hours during the winter to set fruit properly. These blueberries are the most common and widely cultivated blueberry type in the US. Moderate growers reach 6-10’ tall. Fruits have a sweet-tart flavor. Northern Highbush varieties in stock at Painters during our Fall 2026 season: Jersey, Elliott, Chandler, Patriot, Sweetheart, Blueray, and Duke. Southern Highbush (Vaccinium hybrid) A hybrid of Rabbiteye and North Highbush, this type of blueberry bush combines characteristics of each to allow a more adaptable bush. The hybridization creates a shorter ripening period (from Northern Highbush) and the low chill hours and adaptability to southern environments (from Rabbiteye). Be mindful of the earlier bloom time on this hybrid, if our area has a spring freeze some crop loss may be experienced with Southern Highbush. Southern Highbush tends to be more compact, ranging from 3-6’ in height depending on the variety. Fruit is balanced in sweet and tangy, like that of Northern Highbush. Southern Highbush varieties in stock at Painters during our Fall 2026 season: none at this time. As always, check out our Availability Lists for sizes, prices and quantities, updated daily during spring and fall season: