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50 YEARS & G ROWING Painters Greenhouse is a seasonal, family-owned greenhouse in Old Fort, NC. We are open seasonally from March-July, with a shorter fall season September-October and special events throughout the year. Each spring, we offer over 1,500 varieties of potted perennials and annuals, including bedding plants and hanging baskets, no-spray edibles, natives, houseplants, shrubs, and trees. We also provide a range of beautiful combos, pottery, garden art, and select soil amendments. Home: Welcome NOW OPEN! MARCH 6 - JUNE 30 Wednesdays, Thursdays, & Fridays: 9am-5pm Saturdays & Sundays: 9am-4pm Mondays & Tuesdays: CLOSED SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER SUBMIT Thanks! NEWS FROM PAINTERS Plant of the Week: Dichondra 'Silver Falls' READ MORE Plant Spotlight: Chokeberry READ MORE April 20th: Herb Fest 2024 READ MORE MORE PAINTERS 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 50 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 A FOCUS ON NATIVES Planting native is a wonderful way to support a biodiverse ecosystem in your back yard from the bottom to the top of the food chain. We are proud to offer one of the largest selections of homegrown native plants in WNC! LEARN MORE EXPLORE OUR PLANTS Painters has been described as a paradise for plant lovers, and it will not disappoint! We have over 100,000 sq. ft. of growing and retail space and cultivate around 1,000 species on site. We grow our plants with love 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 wide selection of perennials (over 900 varieties), our giant Boston Ferns (aka weddin' ferns), and our mature and unique houseplant offerings. PLANT AVAILABILITY LIST FROM OUR BLOG Dana Owen 3 days ago 4 min Container Design 101 and Our Favorite Plants to Use in Your Planters, Porch Pots, or Baskets Dana Owen Apr 23 1 min Painters Month-By-Month Garden Calendar SEE MORE Follow Us on Social Media @PaintersGreenhouse FOLLOW US PLANTS PROVIDE JOY AND WELLNESS, SUPPORT WILDLIFE, AND MAKE US FEEL MORE CONNECTED - THAT'S WHY WE ENCOURAGE EVERYONE TO ADD A LITTLE GREEN TO THEIR LIFE!

GIVE THE GIFT OF PLANTS PURCHASE A PAINTERS GREENHOUSE GIFT CERTIFICATE Painters Greenhouse Gift Certificate ... Read more Enter amount $ Quantity Buy Now Digital gift certificates can be purchased online here. Simply fill in the form with your desired gift amount and email address for delivery. Your certificate will be sent via email to your chosen recipient or you can email it to yourself to print at home. ​ Payment are processed on the PayPal platform, but you do not need an account to pay with a credit card. Physical gift certificates can be purchased on site at Painters Greenhouse during open hours!

WELCOME TO OUR FALL SEASON Fall Season 2023 September 14th - October 14th FALL HOURS: Monday: Closed Tuesday: Closed Wednesday: Closed Thursday: 9am - 4pm Friday: 9am - 4pm Saturday: 9am - 4pm Sunday: Closed GET DIRECTIONS WHAT YOU'LL FIND Trees & Shrubs Fall is the best time to plant trees and shrubs, and we will have a wider selection than ever before this season. We are especially excited about our extensive native shrub and tree options. The majority of our shrubs and trees are grown by our terrific local partners, with some natives coming to us from American Native Plants, a Maryland grower dedicated to sustainability and environmental restoration. ​ Click here for our Tree & Shrub Planting Guide & Guarantee. ​ ​ AVAILABILITY NEW THIS WEEK Plant of the Week: Dichondra 'Silver Falls' READ MORE Plant Spotlight: Chokeberry READ MORE April 20th: Herb Fest 2024 READ MORE SEE MORE

NEW THIS WEEK AT PAINTERS GREENHOUSE Weekly Sales: 40% off ALL Cool Season Veg by the flat or each 3.5" pot 30% off Select Houseplants: Monstera standleyana 4.5”, Peperomia Frost 4.5”, Scindapsus pictus 'Silvery Ann' 8”HB, Monstera adansonii 8”HB, Birds Nest Fern 4.5", Ficus Ruby 8” $5 off 12” Flowering Hanging Baskets -- Existing discount on these Stunning Combos for $25.00 Plant of the Week: Dichondra 'Silver Falls' To Celebrate Catawba Falls! Plant Spotlight: Chokeberry Ornamental, beneficial, and delicious! April 20th: Herb Fest 2024 A celebration of herbs, local artists, and community! 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 22 23 24 25 26 ... 26

New This Week April 22, 2024 Plant Spotlight: Chokeberry Ornamental, beneficial, and delicious! Why chokeberry you ask? It’s a low-maintenance native shrub that offers beautiful multi-season interest, significant wildlife support, and wide-ranging health benefits for humans. With both Earth Day and Arbor Day this week, we thought it appropriate to choose a native shrub or tree for the Plant of the Week! This spring you’ll find Black Chokeberry, Red Chokeberry, and Purple Chokeberry (a cross of red and black) here at Painters. We are offering both straight species options as well as some beautiful native cultivars. Chokeberry is a great alternative to brilliantly colored but invasive plants such as nandina or burning bush - it offers similarly brilliant red or orange fall color, and you can find a range of size options amongst the nativars. Red chokeberry holds its rich red berries well into the winter, but the black and purple chokeberry also have lovely fruit. The berries are a nutritious food source for many bird species (including the gorgeous cedar waxwing), while the dense growth provides great nesting and shelter habitat. All three types of chokeberry have lovely spring blooms with pale pink to white flower clusters covering the plant and attracting and feeding butterflies and other pollinators. Chokeberry is truly a hands-off plant. It has evolved to tolerate a range of conditions - though it does prefer more moist sites and part shade, it can also grow in full sun and drier conditions. The red chokeberry tends to grow more like a small tree, with a more open habit and bare trunk, so it looks best in the back of gardens or with shorter plants layered in front of it. Black chokeberry is denser, and several nativars have been cultivated to be low-growing and work well as low hedges. While the name doesn’t exactly encourage eating it, the fruit of the Black Chokeberry has been shown to have some pretty amazing benefits to human health. The fruit is definitely astringent and may make your mouth pucker when eaten fresh, but the flavor is really tasty when sweetened in a jam, wine, or simple syrup. Below are our chokeberry options currently available: Red Chokeberry Aronia arbutifolia 3 Gal for $42.00 NATIVE deciduous shrub (z4-8) full sun, 6-10' tall, 3-6' wide White spring blooms, brilliant fall foliage, attractive winter bark Widely adaptable, tolerant of wet soil Beautiful red berries are tart and bitter but can be used for jams and jellies Red Chokeberry 'Brilliantissima' Aronia arbutifolia 'Brilliantissima' 2 Gal for $26.00 NATIVAR deciduous shrub (z4-9) full-part sun, 6-10' tall, 3-5' wide Brilliant red foliage in fall, white blooms and glossy red berries; excellent wildlife value Adaptable and compact, tolerant of a wide range of conditions; good native alternative to burning bush Black chokeberry Aronia melanocarpa 2 Gal for $28.00 NATIVE deciduous shrub (z3-8) full sun-part shade, 3-6' tall and wide White spring flowers, black autumn berries; excellent wildlife value Vibrant orange-purple foliage in fall Tolerant of wet soil, good choice for rain gardens or water margins; spreading habit Black Chokeberry 'Viking' Aronia melanocarpa 'Viking' 2 Gal for $24.00 NATIVAR deciduous fruiting shrub (z3-9) full sun, 3-6' tall and wide Cultivar developed for orchards, with larger fruits than the species; fragrant white spring blooms, brilliant red fall foliage Nutrient-rich berries are too tart to eat fresh but perfect for jams and juices Purple Chokeberry 'Aron' Aronia prunifolia 'Aron' 2 Gal for $26.00 NATIVAR deciduous shrub (z3-8) full sun-part shade, 5-8' tall, 3-6' wide Hybrid of red and black chokeberry with white spring flowers and dark purple summer fruits; superb autumn color Thrives in boggy soil; tolerant of occasional flooding

New This Week April 2, 2024 "New Releases" at Painters this Week April 3rd - Coming to a Greenhouse Near You New this week at Painters! For those of you who have already been visiting, you will enjoy some changes here at Painters as we are bringing out more items from our cold frames and lower greenhouses to fill our retail tables, including our spring-blooming, sun-loving perennials! You will find foxgloves, amsonia, delphinium, dianthus, globe flower and more! See our availability lists for pricing ! As many of you know, Painters grows most of our stock here on site, especially our wide variety of herbaceous perennials. And we cultivate these perennials so that they emerge naturally in season for a high success rate in your gardens. The items you find on our tables may not be in full bloom like these photos, but that's a good thing. By allowing them to put out foliage and blooms with the season, they will be much healthier and have a much higher success rate in your gardens long-term. (Just ask our long-time customers about the success rate of their Painters perennials vs those from box stores or shops that have forced them into early maturity and blooming.) In addition to perennials, we've added more houseplants and succulents and some fabulous tropical treasures! Prices and quantities on our availability lists. And these carnivorous plants! So amazing! For those looking for trees and shrubs, we have local suppliers and have sourced some beautiful, mature Coral Bark Japanese Maples. We've also restocked our deciduous azaleas, Gibraltar and My Mary; plus we've added a great selection of blooming evergreen azaleas. Pictured here: Girard's Fuchsia and Delaware White. For customers seeking a bit of tropical paradise, this week we've added a variety of citrus trees and bushes . See our availability lists for pricing ! Plus, we still have a nice stock of fruit trees, blueberry bushes, and more! And of course we have a huge selection of annuals, hanging baskets for sun and shade, tropical ferns and stunning combo pots! Come on out see it all for yourself!

New This Week April 29, 2024 Plant of the Week: Dichondra 'Silver Falls' To Celebrate Catawba Falls! We love this vigorous and reliable accent plant! It has small, rounded and soft, pewter-colored leaves on silver stems that trail over the edge of pots, window boxes, planters, hanging baskets, or even rock walls. Your own cascading falls! It’s heat and drought tolerant and reliably stands up to high temps and even humidity, as long as it’s not overwatered or grown in soggy soil. And it can recover quickly if watered after wilting–which makes for a very forgiving hanging basket or porch pot! 'Silver Falls' in a sweet Part-Shade combo pot Dichondra ‘Silver Falls’ can easily be grown in full sun, but will grow in partial sun as well. Providing as much light as possible will encourage denser growth and preserve the silver coloring. Dichondra argentea 'Silver Falls' 4” Bedding Plant for $3.50 Annual Full sun-part shade 4-6'' tall, 2-3' trailing Silvery circular leaves spill luxuriously from containers in waterfall fashion, lending a romantic, dreamy atmosphere to any space Can be kept indoors in bright light until warm weather arrives Aka silver nickel vine Find it in the Painter's Main Greenhouse Aisle 3 along with an abundance of gorgeous trailing and upright accent plants to add textures and color. Find items for sun and shade; we have a lot of fun components for your baskets and other planters. And while we are celebrating Silver Falls, let’s celebrate our own neighborhood falls… Catawba Falls Trail is reopening to the public with a reopening celebration in one month and we can’t wait! After two years of phased improvements to the trail, we are all thrilled to rediscover and reconnect with this natural treasure. Plan your trips to Painters and then take in this beautiful corner of WNC! Find out more by following the US Forest Service Grandfather Ranger District on Facebook @nfsnc or visit www.g5trailcollective.org/catawbafalls to subscribe to Catawba Falls updates.

NATIVE PLANTS Native plants--those that existed in North America before European settlement--have evolved to thrive in our specific climate, soils, and temperatures. Our native plant selection typically averages around 300 varieties and each season we increase the numbers of straight-species natives we sow and sell. We care deeply about growing plants that support our pollinators, birds, and other wildlife. The majority of the native plants we sell can be found naturally growing in the WNC area, but we also include some that are native to the general region. Our natives are grown here at the greenhouse with the exception of some shrubs and trees from local nurseries. Search Natives in our Availability Lists RELATED BLOG POSTS A Guide to Native Plants: Straight Species vs. Nativars Aug 13, 2022 Why We Love Native Plants Feb 18, 2022 FALL GARDEN DESIGNS BY PAINTERS Sep 20, 2023 10 Favorite Plants for Attracting Moths, Our Beautiful Unsung Pollinators Jul 28, 2023 1 2 3 4 5 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES Gardening for Wildlife with Native Plants NC Natives by Season and Color Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center - Native Plants Database Native Trees and Shrubs for Your Garden Bee City USA Plant List ​ Our Favorite Native Herbaceous Perennials Bee Balm Blue Star Coneflower Dwarf-eared Coreopsis Helenium Indian Pink Maximilian Sunflower Royal Fern Short Toothed Mountain Mint Swamp Milkweed Trillium Woodland Phlox Black Cohosh Cardinal Flower Dwarf Crested Iris Flag Iris Heliopsis Joe Pye Weed Penstemon Rudbeckia Solomon's Seal Threadleaf Coreopsis White-Topped Sedge Blazing Star Columbine Dwarf Mexican Hat Garden Phlox Heuchera villosa Joe Pye Weed Rattlesnake Master Sensitive Fern Stoke's Aster Thrift (moss) Phlox Wild Bergamot Herbaceous Pernnials Our Favorite Native Ferns Christmas Fern Ostrich Fern Leatherwood Fern Royal Fern New York Fern Sensitive Fern Native Ferns Our Favorite Native Vines American Wisteria Crossvine Carolina Jessamine Passion Flower Vine Coral Honeysuckle Vines Our Favorite Native Ground Covers Allegheny Spurge Pennsylvania Sedge Thrift (moss) Phlox Green and Gold Sensitive Fern Wild Ginger Ostrich Fern Short Toothed Mountain Mint Woodland Phlox Ground Covers Our Favorite Native Grasses Big Bluestem Little Bluestem Pink Muhly Grass Splitbeard Bluestem Blue Grama Grass Northern Sea Oats (River Oats) Prairie Dropseed Indian grass Pennsylvania Sedge Red Switchgrass Grasses Our Favorite Native Edibles--Coming Soon! Edibles Our Favorite Native Trees & Shrubs American Beautyberry American Witch Hazel Blueberry (assorted) Coralberry Downy Serviceberry Eastern Redbud Inkberry Holly Northern Red Oak Possumhaw Viburnum Red Maple (assorted) Shadblow Serviceberry Snowberry Summersweet Clethra Sweetbay Magnolia Winterberry American Beech Bald Cypress Buttonbush Deciduous Azalea (assorted) Eastern Hemlock Flowering Dogwood Mountain Laurel Oak (assorted) Pussy Willow Redtwig Dogwood Shrubby St. John's Wort Southern Bush Honeysuckle Swamp Rose Sweetshrub / Carolina Allspice American Holly Black Chokeberry Catawba Rhododendron Doghobble (assorted) Eastern Ninebark Fothergilla Ninebark (assorted) Oakleaf Hydrangea (assorted) Red Buckeye River Birch Smooth Sumac Spicebush Sweet Gum Virginia Sweetspire Trees & Shrubs

New This Week April 15, 2024 April 20th: Herb Fest 2024 A celebration of herbs, local artists, and community! Join Painters Greenhouse for our 17th Annual Herb Fest! Two days of herbs, specials, and shopping at the height of our season! On Saturday, April 20th: 🌿A wide selection of specialty herbs!! 🌿 20% off 4" perennial herbs 🌿A botanical-themed bake of savory & sweet treats from Houston House Find focaccia bursting with chives, thyme & oregano! Or Mediterranean olive & roasted garlic-rosemary bread, heritage multigrain farm bread, fancy lemon-zucchini bread, chocolate-espresso & chocolate-lavender shortbreads and so much more! Including gluten-free treats! Preorders encouraged. 🌿Drinks & snacks from Leisa's Kettle Corn 🌿 Artisan Craft Market with 10 local vendors selling a beautiful array of handmade goods 🌿 And shopping from our widest selection of plants at the height of our season! On Sunday, April 21st: 🌿A wide selection of specialty herbs!! 🌿 20% off 4" perennial herbs 🌿Argentinian comfort food on Sunday from El Bogedon Food Truck 🌿 And shopping from our widest selection of plants at the height of our season! Craft Vendors for the Saturday Market: Earth Echoes: Hand crafted soaps and other natural body care products Kaysha Siemens: Beautiful botanical jewelry Cindi's Sacred Garden: Organic Soaps, Salves, Teas, Skincare, outdoor natural goods and more Beehive 95 Designs : Art prints, totes, stickers, and more featuring original nature illustrations Her Heartbeat Farm: Hand-crafted rawhide drums & leatherwork including custom designs. Purses, belts, growler & wine carriers, wallets, small bags for children, Buckskin Medicine Bags, and more. Pretty Petals : Beautiful alcohol ink tile creations with vibrant flowers. The ink is dispersed by a straw, air compressor, canned air, or hand blower to make a totally unique one-of-a-kind creation. Galaxita: Needle-felted landscapes inspired by sea and sky. These tiny landscapes were first watercolors and then recreated using upcycled wool garments as a canvas and loose wool roving as paint. And hardwood cutting boards & serving trays with salvaged walnut wood from Northern California. The Plaide Fox & Lightning Struck: Fractal Lichtenberg burning and copper jewelry and charms. Darcys Daydreams: One-of-a-kind metal wall art, lanterns, and jewelry Small Ax : Organic, all natural edibles, vapes, microelixirs and flower Instar Innovations unfortunately had to postpone, but will be here for Mother's Day Weekend! And last, but definitely not least, Spring 2024 Featured Herbs: Bolded items are perennial herbs available in 4" that will be 20% off for the weekend. Anise Hyssop Basil, African Blue Basil, Cinnamon Basil, Everleaf Genovese Basil, Holy Basil, Holy - Red and Green Basil, Lemon Basil, Pesto Perpetuo Basil, Red Ruben Basil, Sweet Basil, Sweet Large Leaf Italian Basil, Thai Siam Queen Basil, Lettuce Leaf Tuscany Borage (limited supply) Calendula Catnip Chamomile, German/Common Chives, Common Chives, Garlic Cilantro, Santo Curry Plant Dill, Fernleaf Dill, Superdukat Eucalyptus, Baby Blue Bouquet Fennel, Bronze Feverfew French Tarragon Lavender, Phenomenal Lavender, Superblue Lavender, Vera (Lavandula angustifolia) Lemon Balm Lemon Grass, East Indian Lemon Verbena Lovage Marjoram, Sweet Mexican Mint Marigold Mexican Oregano Mint, Berries and Cream Mint, Eastern Desert Mint Mint, Spearmint Mint, Curly Mint Mint, Apple Mint Mint, Peppermint Mint, Strawberry Mint Mint, Orange Mint Mojito Mint Oregano, Golden Oregano, Compactum Parsley, Moss Curled Patchouli Rosemary, Arp Rosemary, Hills Hardy Sage, Berggarten Sage, Garden Grey Sage, Pineapple Sage, Purple Sage, Tricolor Salad Burnet Salvia, Pineapple Sage Santolina, Grey Lavender Cotton Savory, Summer Savory, Winter Scented Geraniums, Assorted Stevia Tarragon, French Thyme, English (Thymus vulgaris) Thyme, Hi-Ho Silver (Thymus argentea) Valerian, Common Full herb selection (our best of the season) starts Wednesday, and then 20% off 4" pots of perennial herbs on Saturday and Sunday! Come find your favorite!

New This Week June 13, 2023 Plant of the Week: Zinnias Bursting with color and exuding a cheerful charm, Zinnias are a popular choice for both beginner and experienced gardeners. With their stunning array of blooms in shades of red, orange, yellow, pink, and more, these annual flowers bring a delightful touch of summer to any garden and also make for beautiful cut flowers. From compact varieties perfect for containers to towering cultivars for eye-catching borders, there's a Zinnia for every space! Zinnias are truly one of the most colorful, long-blooming annuals you can add to your garden. They come in endless colors, patterns and shapes. Zinnias thrive in full sun, with adequate air flow (super damp summers can cause some mildew issues). Make sure to wait to sow or plant until the soil warms up, as they need heat. Profuse bloomers, often a healthy plant will bloom from late spring up until frost if deadheaded and fertilized occasionally. To be sure you have zinnias in full bloom the whole season, you can sow or plant a second batch mid-summer to extend and improve the bloom period. As part of the Asteraceae family of composite flowers (which includes sunflowers, coneflowers, daisies and more), Zinnias are beloved by bees, butterflies, moths and hoverflies. While they are not native plants, these annuals provide additional nectar to pollinators looking for food, especially in later months or periods between various native blooms. We highly recommend mixing them in with your milkweed, salvia, asters, goldenrod, joe pye, agastache, verbena and other pollinator supporting plants! The most beloved by pollinators are the single-flowering, and especially the taller cultivars such as Benary's Giants. We currently are sold out of the giants, but do have several beautiful colors of disease resistant, single-blooming zinnias available. Bees cannot see red, but will still be attracted to red or orange zinnias, likely because they are attracted to the ultraviolet markings on the petals. Many flowers have UV pigments on their petals that are invisible to the human eye, but that seem to be designed to attract pollinators - highlighting where the nectar (and pollen) can be found. Try this at home! You can find an ultraviolet flashlight for $20, and have hours of fun in the dark getting a glimpse at what the world looks like to many pollinators and other creatures that see this spectrum! The Owens recently did this, but unfortunately only had a cellphone to document this zinnia glowing with UV at the center.

New This Week February 27, 2024 The DEETS on Painters All you need to know to get ready for your visit! We know so many folks are mapping out their gardens for the coming year. We know you are reading last year's garden notes and researching plants. So for those of your who like to plan, here's a bit of Painters Homework as you prepare for your visit. First things first! When to come and where we are! MARCH 6 - JUNE 30 Wednesdays, Thursdays, & Fridays: 9am-5pm Saturdays & Sundays: 9am-4pm Mondays & Tuesdays: CLOSED And whether it's your first time here or you'd like a refresher for where to get started shopping, review our Greenhouse Map so you can hit the ground running! What we have for you! Our Availability Lists for the 2024 Spring Season are live on the website! Note that not all plants are available for sale at the same time. We produce 90% of our stock onsite and raise our crops according to ideal growing and transplanting times for our region. All items listed are intended for sale during our spring retail season, and will be made available for purchase as they reach optimum maturity and health to ensure success in your gardens! Additionally, as you plan your gardens and future landscaping projects, find recommendations and Painter's favorites in the categories under Our Plants. And check back for more categories as they are added! www.paintersgreenhouse.com Explore Our Plants | Painters Greenhouse Discover the wide selection of natives, perennials, flowering annuals, trees & shrubs, tropicals, houseplants, and aquatics available for sale at Painters Greenhouse. We grow over 1,000 species ourselves onsite and Signage Changes: Painters is committed to growing and providing healthy, robust natives, nativars, and non-native plants. In addition to adding many more straight species natives to our availability, we aim to provide customers with the information needed to make decisions on their own garden diversity and landscaping needs. Find new signage to direct you in your selections! Read More about the Natives Varieties we are growing for this season! Price Changes: Because we feel strongly that food gardens should be available and accessible too all, Painters has LOWERED prices on annual herbs and 3 1/2" vegetable starts. Come get your greens! Other Changes: Growing and learning is part of the process here at Painters. We always aim to provide plants that are healthy and will thrive locally in WNC. There are many changes made as best practices are improved upon. This year, because vining annuals and nasturtiums grow so well from seed (and often are more successful direct sown than transplanted from a potted plant start), we have removed the starts from our program and instead are providing seed from a favorite local supplier, Sow True Seed! Find them (amongst many others) in our cooler! Updated Plant Warranty Information: www.paintersgreenhouse.com Greenhouse Policies & FAQ | Painters Greenhouse Anything else? Peruse our FAQ page to find answers to further questions or Contact Us anytime!

New This Week March 20, 2023 Locally Grown is the Painters Difference When you shop at Painters Greenhouse, not only are you supporting a local small business, you are also shopping from one of the largest selections of locally grown plants in WNC. When you shop at Painters Greenhouse not only are you supporting a local small business, you are also shopping from one of the largest selections of locally grown plants in WNC. We are proud to grow the majority of our plants on site in our greenhouses from seeds, cuttings, bareroot, or plugs to mature potted plants ready for you to take home! Sara sowing seeds last fall. These baby Black-Eyed Susan plants were sown in September by Sara, transplanted into plug trays several weeks later by Beth, and then Moises and Diego cared for them in our cold frame over the winter (this allowed for proper vernalization - the long cold period needed to promote flowering). Beth bumping our seedlings up into plug trays. This batch was one of several rounds grown throughout the year. Soon they will be planted in pots by Maria, Azia, Kerry, Ana and Yanet, then moved back to the cold frame while they root in… Our propogation team transplanting plugs into the pots they will be sold in. ...and before you know it you’ll see them for sale on the retail floor. It takes precise planning, years of experience, months of growing, and a team of 10 plus people to get these plants ready for you to take home at the ideal time to plant. (Now consider the fact that we do this for over a thousand varieties of annuals, perennials, houseplants, trees, shrubs, and more!) So why do we do it? Growing a majority of our own plants reduces our carbon footprint significantly, means we know the entire history of the plant and can control everything that comes in contact with it, and helps us keep our prices competitive. It means less shipping trucks on the road and reducing fossil fuel usage by forgoing the need to have lots of mature plants delivered - short of some of our houseplants, anything we don’t grow ourselves is grown within a hundred miles. This is the way Painters has done it for 50 years. While some may think we are crazy to grow and sell direct from the same location (it definitely comes with many challenges), we love growing and we love the face-to-face with our dedicated customers. We are deeply grateful for the growers and production members behind our diverse and healthy inventory, thankful for the talented horticulturists nearby who wholesale many of the species we don’t grow ourselves, and grateful to all our loyal customers who value the Painters difference.