Save 35% OFF In-stock Live Tropical Plants Until Year End

Christmas is fast approaching. It seems to quietly sneak up on us and then with 2 weeks to go - it lets loose.
Are you ready? If not, maybe we can help.


We have lots of gifts in our shop that will be ideal for the Plant People on your list - plants, food, fertilizer, leaf cleaners, potting soil, spray bottles, insecticides, pots and lots of Christmas plants. Or group any combination of these items into a custom-made gift basket.

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Starting NOW, and continuing to December 31 (this year end) we are offering 35% OFF the price of all In-stock Live Tropical Plants. This offer excludes the Christmas Plants on this flyer to the right, because they are already specially priced.


We will not be bringing in any more plants from the greenhouse before year end.  However, we have a good selection of quality plants in stock now. So call, email or pop into the store to enquire about the varieties for which you may be looking.


35% OFF  All In-stock Live Tropical Plants until Year End!

Last Minute Christmas Plant Price-Cut from Greenhouse

Order before Tuesday, December 14 at 6pm.

We received, just today, a  temporary price cut to the Norfolk Island Pine, an ever-popular foliage house plant that is often used as a living Christmas tree. When Christmas is over, you can continue to grow and enjoy this plant in your home for many years to come.  This Price Cut came from our greenhouse supplier; but you have to order before Tuesday, December 14, 2010 at 6pm, so call or email NOW!

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Available in 2 sizes - the 6" diameter grow pot is regularly priced at $16.75 and right now is offered at $13.00 - Save 23%. And the more mature 10" diameter pot is regularly priced at $35 and right now is offered at $27.00 - Save 23%.


Order before Tuesday, December 14, 2010 at 6pm. All ordered plants will be brought into our shop on Thursday, December 16, 2010.

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The 6 inch plants will be 22-24" high and the 10 inch plants will be 34-36" high. The Norfolk Island Pine (Araucaria heterophylia) requires just average warmth, bright indirect light, regular watering and feeding.

Take advantage of this one-time Greenhouse Price Cut and get this Florist Quality plant as a gift for the Plant People in your life or for a spot in your own home. Order NOW!


Here are more of the exceptional Christmas plants that we are offering this year. Click on the image to enlarge it. Call Linda at 519-767-2161 or email plantsforall@ody.ca to order.

We're Back, and Ready to Go!

Linda and I have just returned from a 7 day cruise of the East Carribean. We recently celebrated our 40th wedding anniversary and this is the first extended vacation that we have taken together in many years.

Our cruise included stop overs in Puerto Rico, St. Maartens and St. Thomas.  We played the tourist role and came back with hundreds of pictures including lots of native tropical plants; some being from the same families as those we use in our Plant Maintenance accounts.

Botanical Garden, Conguas, Puerto Rico

We had a tour of the Botanical Gardens at Conguas, Puerto Rico,  that has only been open for 2 years.  Our tour guide was Magdahlia, one of the driving forces behind the creation of the Botanical Gardens and her passion for the Project resonated clearly.  We were very lucky.

I will be using some of the pictures in blog postings here, so check back often. I will also use some of these  pictures in my speaking presentations to the Horticultural Societies and Garden Clubs.  Our next speaking engagement is scheduled for January 25th at the Guelph Horticultural Society with a brand new topic that I'm developing - Cultural Practices in Maintaining Your Live Tropical IndoorPlants. I am pretty excited about this!

Right now, our store is getting ready for Christmas with lots of gift ideas for the Plant People in your life and we are still running the Insecticide Promotion for you and your plants. Check our web page at www.plantsforall.goldbook.ca for details and to get your 20% OFF coupon.

Friday, November 19, 2010 - One Day Live Plant Sale

Save 30% OFF the price of all in-stock live plants - today only!

We don't very often have a sale - But - we are closing our Retail store for one week of rest and relaxation (either post-Hallowe'en or pre-Christmas). So, we decided yesterday to put all of our live tropical plants on sale for today only.

Small plants - Large plants - all live plants. 

In-store only. Friday, November 19, 2010 only

30%  OFF  All Live Plants

Plants For All   66 Dawson Road   Guelph 
519-767-2161        plantsforall@ody.ca

Open until 6pm

Thursday, November 11, 2010 - Concordia Garden Group Meeting Went Well

Wednesday, November 11, 2010 saw Linda and Brian presenting a talk at the Concordia Garden Group in Kitchener. The meeting was their regular monthly gathering and was held at the Concordia Club ( of Octoberfest fame) on Ottawa Street South.

The topic was Pest Control of Your Houseplants and Integrated Pest Management (IPM). We worked through our approach to controlling insects on your houseplants under the categories of 1)Prevention by way of Inspection and Proper Cultural Practices, 2)Pest Identification and Damage, 3) the IPM - Inspection, Identification, Monitoring, Tolerability, Biological Control, Pest Control and Replacement and 4) Control what Products are available and Application of these products.

The emphasis is on using the least toxic method of control that will do the job.

We sell more houseplant insecticide products in February, than any other month; because the pests have come into your home in the fall to escape the cold and most people don't realize they have a problem until then.

Don't wait. Get them now because you will need them. Go to our webpage at www.plantsforall.goldbook.ca for an exclusive money saving offer on Houseplant Insecticide products that expires December 31, 2010.

Advice on treating your houseplant insect problems is always free.  Contact us by sending a comment to this post or email plantsforall@ody.ca 

If you would like Linda and/or Brian to speak at your group meeting contact us directly at plantsforall@ody.ca for full details.

Monday, October 25, 2010 - What do you do with your compostable material?

As we go into the different offices to tend the clients' plants, one of the most frequent questions we get is 'What do you do with your compostable material?'

Each week, we harvest about 60 Litres of compostable material taken from the plants in our clients' offices. Some of this material is dead or dying leaves and flowers; but easily more than 90% of it is healthy material that has been trimmed for the benefit of the plant or for aesthetic purposes as part of our good cultural practices. These plants will have been fed as per our Nutrient Application Practices, and this material will be very high in plant nutrient value. To request a free PDF copy of our Nutrient Application Practices that explains with what and when we feed our indoor tropical plants, send an e-mail to plantsforall@ody.ca

At our facility in Guelph, the property owner will not allow compost piles. An option was to bag the compost for weekly pick up as part of our collection by the municipal garbage and recycling collectors. However, that was not an option that I could be happy with because our municipality trucks the compostable material out of the area to be incinerated.

What do we do with our compostable material? We bag it and after we've accumulated a vanload we move it up to my sister's farm near Kenilworth, about 45 minutes north of Guelph. Here she and her husband further compost the material and/or mix it with other ingredients to develop their own 'secret' feed formula for growing giant pumpkins. Growing giant pumpkins is a hobby for them; but big business for others.  There is a well-established social network amongst giant pumpkin growers that contributes to the development of better seeds for better crops and better cultural practices.

Their objective is not to grow the biggest pumpkin in the world; but rather, to grow the biggest pumpkin that they can and to keep improving year after year. We were up to the farm this past weekend to drop off some more compostable material and to see how this year has been for production. We were excited to learn that their entry this year won them third-place, out of 18 entries, at the Rockton World's Fair, on October 9, 2010. Furthermore, this year's entry was their largest pumpkin ever, weighing in at 740 pounds. Congratulations! Pictured here is a little sister of the winning pumpkin with my sister standing beside it for size relativity. The pumpkin pictured would weigh in at approximately 720 pounds. The variety of pumpkins they grow is Atlantic Giants. Left click on the picture to enlarge it.

 What do you do with your compostable material? Send me a comment and we'll share your good ideas.

Brian

Plants For All

Wednesday, October 20, 2010 Linda Speaks to Heart and Home Group at the Salvation Army

As listed in our "what's happening" column in the right sidebar, Linda spoke to the Heart and Home Group at the Salvation Army Guelph Citadel on Gordon Street in Guelph, yesterday morning.

Brian spoke briefly on the overwintering and care of Bougainvillea plants. We had two of our own personal Bougainvillea plants from our home to display.  Linda then followed with a more lengthy discussion on Disaster Recovery for Your Tropical Plants.

Linda told of her first-hand experiences at salvaging, cleaning and reviving plants that had been physically damaged in a severe house fire back in April. Some of the fire surviving plants have even gone on to produce offspring.

Members of the Heart and Home Group were interested in what Linda had to say and offered several questions relating to the topic and general houseplant care questions.

You can share your experiences with disaster recovery for living plants by posting a comment to this post below.

Linda and Brian are available to speak to local area interested groups on a wide variety of topics relevant to live and artificial tropical plants. Contact us by email plantsforall@ody.ca for more information.

Monday, October 18, 2010 - KW Garden Club Talk Well Received

Welcome back. Today, Brian was the guest speaker at the October meeting of the Kitchener Waterloo Garden Club held at the Albert McCormack Arena in Waterloo.  The talk was well received by 60 or so people in attendance. Due to scheduling  of other meeting components by the organizers, we didn't have much opportunity for questions and discussions; but we were encouraged and enjoyed the interaction that we had.  I was particularly pleased to have an email awaiting my return to our shop offering some constructive criticism and questioning some detail of my information. That's great and I would like to encourage that kind of 2 way communication on this blog.  Feel free to post a comment.

The topic discussed: Pest Control and Integrated Pest Management for Your Indoor Tropical Plants

• purpose - to become aware of the options of pest management for your houseplants
• Prevention through Inspection and Proper Cultural Practices
• Pests - Identification and Damage Considerations
• Integrated Pest Management levels Inspection, Identify, Monitor, Tolerable, Biological Control, Control Products, Replace
• Control - the Products and Application

Linda and Brian are available to speak to local area interested groups on a wide variety of topics relevant to live and artificial tropical plants. Contact us by email plantsforall@ody.ca for more information.

Welome to Plants For All Blog

Glad you are here.  Welcome to the Plants For All Blog. This is a new venture for us and we invite your input.

We will be discussing many aspects of the life of live and artificial tropical plants for indoor and outdoor use.

We look forward to your comments, questions and experiences, so visit often and we would love to hear from you.

We have added lots of pages on specific but related topics, so please explore these pages.  Give us your feedback on subjects you would like discussed.