Huge New Selection of Flowers, Vegetables & Herbs

Now we have even more plants for you to choose from!  Our latest shipment has arrived, and it includes tons of new plants... from annual bedding plants to perennials to ornamental grasses to vegetables and herbs!

The new annual bedding plants include:

Red Caladiums

Dragon Wing Begonias
Non-Stops Begonias
Caladiums

Ornamental Peppers

Million Bells
Mexican Heather
Ornamental Peppers
Pentas
Purslane

Some of our new accent plants include:

Sprengerii Fern

English Ivy
Fiber Optic Grass
German Ivy
Plumosa Fern
Spikes
Sprengerii Fern
Vinca Vine (major)
Wire Vine

The perennials on our new shipment include:

Gallardia 'Goblin'

Hollyhock

(Alcea - Double Scarlet)

(Alcea - Double Yellow)

Butterfly Flower

(Asclepias Tuberosa)

Butterfly Bush

(Buddleia - Pink Delight)

(Buddleia - Royal Red)

(Buddleia - White Profusion)

Coreopsis 'Sunray'

Tickseed

(Coreopsis - Alba)

(Coreopsis - Moonbeam)

(Coreopsis - Sunray)

Pinks

(Dianthus - Brilliant)

Foxglove

(Digitalis - Excelsior)Purple Coneflower

(Echinacea - Magnus)

Blanket Flower

(Gaillardia - Goblin)

Shasta Daisy - Silver Princess

Guara

(Guara - Siskiyou Pink)

Spotted Dead Nettle

(Lamium - Beacon Silver)

(Lamium - Red Nancy)

Lavender

(Lavendula - Lady)

(Lavendula - Munstead)

Shasta Daisy

(Leucanthemum - Silver Princess)

Cardinal Flower

(Lobelia cardinalis)

Verbena - Homestead Purple

Golden Creeping Jenny

(Lysimachia - aurea)

Upright Phlox

(Phlox paniculata - blue)

(Phlox paniculata - lilac)

(Phlox paniculata - pink)

(Phlox paniculata - white)

Sedum 'Autumn Joy'

Creeping Phlox

(Phlox subulata - white)

Balloon Flower

(Platycodon - Sentimental Blue)

Black-eyed Susan

(Rudbeckia - Goldstrum)

Sempervivum

Stonecrop

(Sedum - Autumn Joy)

(Sedum - Blue Spruce)

(Sedum - Dragon's Blood)

(Sedum - Tri-Color)

Hens & Chicks

(Sempervivum)

Verbena

(Homestead Purple)

Looking for vines & climbers?  Here's what we have in our selection of new arrivals...

Cardinal Vine

Candy Corn Vine

Cardinal Vine

Hyacinth Bean Vine

Morning Glory Vine

(assorted colors)

Thunbergia

(Black-eyed Susan Vine)

Some other flowering and foliage selections we have to offer in larger 5-inch and 6-inch pots include:

Pennisetum 'Fireworks'

Dwarf Papyrus

Fireworks Fountain Grass

Purple Fountain Grass

Gerbera

Colocasia

(Black Taro)

Maiden Hair Fern

Silver Lace Fern

Gerber Daisies



Phormium

Black Lacquer Pseuderanthemum

Cordyline

Draceana Marginata

Elephant Ears

Euphorbia 'Ascot Rainbow'

Phormium

Get your Herb Pots and your Vegetable Garden Spots ready!  Here's what's included in our huge selection of herbs and vegetables...

HERBS

Arugula - 4-inch pots only

Basil - 3-packs only

Lemon Basil - 4-inch pots only

Purple Ruffles Basil - 4-inch pots only

Chives - 3-packs only

Cilantro - 4-inch pots only

Dill - 3-packs only

Sweet Marjoram - 4-inch pots only

Mint - 3-packs only

Oregano - 4-inch pots only

Italian Parsley - 3-packs only

Rosemary - 4-inch pots only

Sage - 3-packs only

Golden Sage - 4-inch pots only

Honeydew Melon Sage - 4-inch pots only

Pineapple Sage - 4-inch pots only

Stevia Sugar Plant - 4-inch pots only

French Tarragon - 4-inch pots only

English Thyme - 4-inch pots only

VEGETABLES

availabilities in 3-packs

PEPPERS

Banana - Hot

Banana - Sweet

Bell - Big Bertha Green

Bell - California Wonder Green

Bell - Red

Bell - Yellow

Cayenne

Habanero

Jalapeno
Red Chili

Serrano

TOMATOES

Beefmaster

Beefsteak

Better Boy

Big Boy

Bradley

Celebrity

Early Girl

Jet Star

Roma Plum

Rutgers

Sweet 100

Whopper

Yellow (No Acid)

VINE VEGETABLES

Cantaloupe - Harvest Queen

Cucumber - Burpless

Cucumber - Pickling

Acorn Squash

Butternut Squash

Yellow Crookneck Squash

Yellow Straightnect Squash

Zucchini

Watermelon - Crimson Sweet

OTHER VEGETABLES

Eggplant - Black Beauty

Okra - Clemson Spineless

VEGETABLES

availabilities in 4-inch pots

one plant per pot



EGGPLANT

Fairy Tale

Ichiban (Japanese Long)

PEPPERS

Anaheim

Bell - Chocolate (color only - not flavor!)

Bell - Lilac

Bell - Valencia Orange (again, color only!)

Mucho Nacho

Poblano

Tabasco

World's Hottest (hotter than Habanero)

SQUASH

Flying Saucer

Peter Pan

Spaghetti

TOMATOES, HEIRLOOM



Black Krim

Boxcar Willy

Brandywine

Cherokee Purple

Green Zebra

Marglobe

Mortgage Lifter

Old German

Orange Oxheart

Pineapple

San Marzano

Tomatoes, Premium

Arkansas Traveler

World's Largest

OTHER

Tomatillo



WE'RE EXPECTING ANOTHER SHIPMENT LATER THIS WEEK.

THAT SHIPMENT WILL INCLUDE TROPICALS LIKE:

KIMBERLY QUEEN SUN FERNS

MACHO FERNS

OLEANDER

GARDENIA STANDARDS

AND LOTS, LOTS MORE!

COME SEE US TODAY!  AND DON'T FORGET, WE NOW ACCEPT YOUR DEBIT AND CREDIT CARDS FOR YOUR PURCHASES.

OPENING FOR THE SPRING SEASON

We'll be opening for the Spring Season
this Thursday, March 31.

Green Thumbs greenhouse on Monday, March 28

Easy Wave Petunias

This Spring you'll find that we've grown a few new plants that we haven't grown in past years... such as some Easy Wave Petunias,

Better Boy Tomatoes

Sweet Banana Peppers

Better Boy Tomatoes & Sweet Banana Peppers that we usually buy ready-to-sell in later weeks. 

Salvia 'Fahrenheit Violet'

We're growing a different variety of perennial (it comes back every year in our area) Salvia called 'Fahrenheit Violet.'





Cuphea 'Vienco'



And we're excited about a different variety of Cuphea that we're growing for this Spring.  It's called 'Vienco', and it looks like it will be a real magnet for hummingbirds!




Giant Ducksfoot Coleus



Then we've got lots of our best-selling favorites that we've grown in the past... like the Giant Ducksfoot Coleus,

Strobilanthes (Persian Shield)

the colorful Persian Shield (Strobilanthes), 

Zonal Geranium 'Diabolo Red'

Our Zonal Geraniums, available in both the big 8-inch pots and the smaller 4 1/2-inch pots, 








And our famous 'Sun & Shade' Impatiens that grow well in either shade or sun - these are very difficult to find anywhere else in this area, and we've grown more this season than ever before... in a wider selection of colors.

Impatiens 'Sun N Shade'

And of course, there's our popular Wave Petunia Hanging Baskets.  This Spring, we've grown about four times as many as we grew last Spring... using all space available in both our Green Thumbs greenhouse location, and in our off-site Ridge Ripe greenhouse location.

Hanging Basket Shockwave Petunias, Denim Blue

Hanging Basket Shockwave Petunias 'Pink Vein'

Hanging Baskets Shockwave Petunias 'Purple'

Hanging Baskets Shockwave Petunias 'Rose'

To get a good look at many more of the plants we've grown for this Spring Season, click on the "Spring Plants" tab toward the top of this page - just below our banner picture of the hanging basket.

Something else new for us... beginning this Spring, we will accept Credit Cards and Debit Cards!

Our hours are 9:00am to 5:00pm, Monday through Friday, and 9:00am to 12:00noon on Saturday.  We hope you'll come see us!

Spring Planting in Full Swing

The pots, flats and baskets have been filled and the planting for Spring has begun at The Green Thumbs.

Hanging Baskets filled and ready to be planted at the Ridge Ripe greenhouse location



Flats of 4.5-inch and 3.4 inch pots, 4-packs and 2-packs filled and ready to be planted at Green Thumbs greenhouse location

 The clients fill the pots, flats and baskets just prior to the arrival of the plugs that we plant to grow our Spring bedding plants.

Norman Carter (left) and James Ward work at filling flats of 4-packs

Randy Holiday inserts tags into the pots of Ruellia (Mexican Petunias) he has just planted

Michael Boles looks on as Kathy Hemingway inspects his handiwork of planting lantana liners

Janet holding a Zonal Geranium liner that will be planted in an 8-inch pot

The first of the plants to be planted for Spring are the Geraniums and the Hanging Baskets of Wave Petunias.  Pictured above you can see the size of the Zonal Geranium liners that we receive to plant in 8-inch pots.

Janet holding a Scaevola (Fanflower) liner

Above is a photo of Janet holding a Scaevola liner, that is among some of the other earlier plants that we start for Spring.  The Scaevolas (Fanflowers) are planted around the same time that we also plant some of the other larger, and more slow-growing Spring bedding plants, such as Ruellia (Mexican Petunia), Plumbago, Cuphea, Lantana and others.

Shockwave Petunia liner that will be planted in our Hanging Baskets

Lantana Liner that will be planted in 4.5-inch pots

10-inch Hanging Baskets just planted with Shockwave Petunias

You can see what the Hanging Baskets look like right after they have first been planted.

Randy Holiday putting tags in the pots of Ruellia he has just planted

Randy Holiday is pictured above placing plant tags in the pots he has just planted with Ruellia (Mexican Petunias).

Zonal Geraniums at Ridge Ripe Greenhouse on March 1, 2011

Here is a look at the 8-inch pots that were planted with Zonal Geraniums on February 7.  This gives an indication of the amount of growth over a four-week period.

Hanging Baskets of Shockwave Petunias planted one week apart

The difference in one week of growth in indicated in the photo above.  The baskets with the larger petunias were planted one week prior to the baskets containing the smaller petunias.

Ivy Geraniums grown in 4.5-inch pots at Ridge Ripe Greenhouse

Ivy Geraniums are another variety of Geraniums that we grow.  These trailing Geraniums are being grown in 4.5-inch pots at our Ridge Ripe greenhouse location.

Zonal Geraniums grown in 4.5-inch pots

Other than the popular red and salmon colored Zonal Geraniums that we grow in the larger 8-inch pots, we also grow red, white and pink Zonal Geraniums in smaller 4.5-inch pots.  These geraniums were photographed approximately 2 weeks after planting.

Hanging Baskets at Ridge Ripe Greenhouse on March 1, 2011

The Hanging Baskets are beginning to show some progress in the growth of their plants.  These baskets were photographed on March 1, approximately 3 weeks after having been planted.

Michael Boles (left) and James Ward planting 'Firecracker' Salvia in 4-packs at the Green Thumbs greenhouse

Another round of planting begins on March 2, with the arrival of more than 3,000 plugs of annual Spring bedding plants.  Michael Boles and James Ward are pictured above, planting 'Firecracker' Salvia in 4-packs at The Green Thumbs greenhouse location.  Pictured on the table in the foreground are trays containing the plugs as they are shipped to us - 512 plant plugs in each individual trays.

James Ward with a plug of 'Firecracker' Salvia that he prepares to plant

Randy Holiday holds a plug of a LoGro Verbena that he will plant in 3.5-inch pots

The two photos above give you an idea of just how small our plants are when we first plant them.

Norman Carter (left) and Randy Holiday plant pots of LoGro Verbena

The next round of planting will begin around March 9, when more of our plant plugs arrive.  The next shipment is expected to include Double Petunias, Cosmos and Dianthus.  If you would like to see photos of what these plants will look like when they are ready for sale, click on the "Spring Plants" tab near the top of this page.

Our projected opening date is set for Thursday, March 31.

A Slow and Snowy Start

Even though we do our work indoors this time of year, the snow is still affecting our progress.  The photo at the left shows the view looking out the door of our greenhouse that is located on Barrow Hill Road, where we will be growing our Zonal Geraniums, our Ivy Geraniums and most of our hanging baskets.  (To get a glimpse of the plants we will be growing for this Spring Season, click on the tab "Spring Plants" located just below our Home Page logo photo.)

Snowy and icy roads and airports have slowed the shipment of both our plant plugs and liners, and our supplies.  The arrival of our pots, flats, trays and potting media was a week later than planned due to icy roads in the Mid-South in mid-January.

When they did arrive, our guys (James Ward, Norman Carter, Michael Boles and Randy Holiday) got right on top of it and started filling the pots, hanging baskets and flats, and began to get them ready to plant.

The first of our Geranium liners (what we call the rooted cuttings that we use to start the Geraniums that we grow) finally arrived, and when the weather and the road conditions permit us to get back to the greenhouse on Barrow Hill Road, we'll get started with the planting.

The green pots are ready to be planted with the Geranium liners, and the white hanging baskets are ready to be planted with the Shockwave Petunia liners.  Planting the hanging baskets should have begun this week with the planned arrival of the Petunia liners.  Our supplier informed us yesterday that shipment of the liners for the Petunias, the Ivy Geraniums, and more than a dozen other plant varieties will be delayed at least a week because of another winter storm system covering much of the country.

But, the snow will melt... the roads will clear... and we will get everything planted eventually!  The target date for opening for the Spring 2011 season in Thursday, March 31.  Until then, whenever you need a little "plant fix," just go back to our "Spring Plants" page and browse through the pictures!  And come back to check our blog often... we'll keep you posted on our progress with more photos.