CINNAMON AND AUTUMN COLORED POINSETTIAS ARE PERFECT FOR YOUR THANKSGIVING CENTERPIECE!
If you’re hosting Thanksgiving Dinner, set the mood with some of our Thanksgiving table decorations or if you’re attending a festive occasion, bring a Poinsettia or flowering plant for the host or hostess.
BOTH Payne’s store locations will beCLOSED for Thanksgiving Dayand will reopen on Friday, November 29!
Stop by either of our Payne’s stores and pick up a colorful GIFT PLANT to help you say THANK YOU! Gift wrapping for a small fee and local delivery is available.
Payne’s greenhouses are bursting with homegrown poinsettias ready for holiday decorating. For the same reasons it’s important to buy locally grown foods, it’s important to buy locally grown plants. Because Payne’s Poinsettias have been growing right here since early July, they are acclimated to Santa Fe’s light and climate.
Turn your home into a vibrant tropical paradise with the stunning selection of tropical and house plants available at Payne’s Nursery. From the iconic Monstera, Draceana and Coleus to Snake plants, Succulents and more! Payne’s offers a variety of plants perfect for bringing the lush beauty of the tropics indoors.
Enhance your space with cascading ferns or trailing vines like Pothos, all carefully cultivated for indoor success. Our knowledgeable staff can help you choose the ideal plants for your lighting and care preferences, ensuring your indoor jungle thrives.
Complement your greenery with a variety of pottery to add a touch of tropical charm.
Arrange plants in clusters to create depth and dimension, mimicking a rainforest canopy. With Payne’s high-quality plants and expert advice, you’ll have everything you need to design a tranquil, leafy retreat that transforms your home into a personal oasis.
By: Karen Weir-Jimerson, Costa Farms Photo Courtesy of Costa Farms
Are you working from home these days? I am. On good days, I’m thrilled with how much I get done. I’ve honed my multitasking abilities by writing and attending zoom meetings while slow cooking dinner or vacuuming my bedroom with my robot vacuum cleaner. Another perk? My dogs are my personal assistants.
On bad days, I feel sort of lonely. My co-workers are postage-stamp size heads on my computer screen. Everyone has to talk one at a time, so the spontaneous push and pull of brainstorming meetings gets diluted. And I realize that not much actually gets done when your dogs are your personal assistants. They just want snacks and walks.
So I’ve surrounded myself with plants to make an inspirational working area. Living in Florida, I can move my home office outdoors to my screened porch when weather permits. I’ve been writing on my laptop at my dining room table with a little tabletop shrine of plants to keep me company. My leafy coworkers are two fiddle leaf figs (Little Fiddle) which seem to love the shaded area on the porch and have been thriving there happily. They aren’t always so easy to raise, so it’s cool to see we’ve found a place they really like. And to add a little color and texture, I’ve clustered a small collection of Rex begonias on the table. Staring into the swirling colorful leaves gives me inspiration. Here’s another perk; studies show that plants improve your productivity.
Here are a couple other nice options for home work spaces.
Snake plant: These plants offer a vertical presence for small desk spaces.
Dracaena: I love the mass of thin, strappy leaves of ‘Anita’ as an ideal for a desk mate. These plants rarely drop leaves, so your work area will stay neat and clean.
Succulents: Succulent plants make a wonderful addition to a home office, adding a touch of natural beauty while requiring minimal maintenance due to their resilience and ability to thrive in indoor settings.
Flowering Kalanchoes: Choose from orange, red, pink and yellow! These adorable colorful plants require occasional watering and bright light.
PAYNE’S HAS ALL OF THE RECOMMENDED PLANTS ABOVE!STOP BY AND GET YOUR HOME OFFICE PLANTS TODAY!
Payne’s has Paperwhite Narcissus bulbs for the Holiday season. Hurry in because these will sell out AND we won’t be getting in another shipment! When you buy Paperwhite narcissus bulbs from Payne’s, you buy the best bulbs available from our Dutch grower. Paperwhites are deliciously fragrant and don’t need cold treatment to be coaxed into bloom, as hyacinths and tulips do. Here’s how to bring your Paperwhites to flower.
Plant your bulbs in a well-drained soilless potting mix, like Ferti-Lome.
Choose a pot that’s only slightly larger than the bulb, or plant three bulbs in a large enough container to hold them 1 inch apart.
Plant the pointy end up and the base down.
Set the bulbs into the mix so that their top third is exposed above the surface.
Water with warm water, put the pot(s) in a sunny 50-60ºF room, and keep the soil just moist (not soggy, no standing water in the drip catchers!).
They’ll bloom in about 6 weeks.
Some people prefer forcing Paperwhites using containers that don’t drain such as a soup bowl or deep platter. Put the bulbs in, pointy side up and then fill in with gravel covering approximately 3/4 of the bulb. Keep water in the bowl. Plant more bulbs in bowls or pots, every week or two, to space out the blossoming.
FRESH HERBS ARE A GREAT IDEA FOR GARDENING INSIDE DURING THE COLDER MONTHS!
ANOTHER GREAT QUESTION!
In this week’s archived show from previous years, the Garden Guru said gardeners should never stop gardening – especially during these colder months. So why not grow your own herbs.
Lynn said that growing herbs indoors is easy! Stop by Payne’s Nurseries and ask to see our herb selection. Payne’s has a variety of herbs — the common ones, being Basil, Chives, Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme … we’ve all heard that one before! There’s lots of recipes that call for a garnish of fresh Chives or fresh Parsley and they’re simple to grow in a sunny window! Listen to Lynn’s tip to find out how to make your herb garden a success!
CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE GARDEN GURU’S ARCHIVED RADIO SHOW ON THIS TOPIC.
During this time of year, I get many calls asking if our poinsettias have arrived. They also ask, if by chance, we have other colors besides red. As a local nursery, we prefer to grow our own and offer our customers many choices and pot sizes.
You will find Red, but you will also find White, Pink, Salmon, Gold and many Bi-colors. They have been growing in our greenhouses since July making them better adjusted to our crazy weather.
Because we do grow our own poinsettias, churches in the vicinity order from us ahead of the Holidays to make sure they get what they want. We will hold them until they are ready for them.
Come by and see the many selections we have to offer.
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Here’s THIS MONTHS ZODIAC SIGN PROFILE AND HOW IT CAN HELP YOU GARDEN:
SCORPIO (OCTOBER 23 – NOVEMBER 22 ) Scorpio deepens the fall. Always having a plan, you make sure that successive plantings of snap peas or lettuce grace your gardens. You are the strongest member of the zodiac and thus are attracted to vigorous plants such as Swiss chard, which regrows when cut. Tomatoes appeal to you for the color red, and eggplants for their affinity with purple. Being sexy and passionate, you are captivated by exotic lilies, with their deep, nectar-coated throats. You like a challenge, so sushi and Thai foods are often on the menu in your kitchen.
