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Our club members receive a new, luscious, indoor potted plant each month. The type of plant depends on the month of the season. The varieties change monthly. For a good look at all the plants that we offer each month - Plant of the Month Club Selections.

If there are actual "chunks" of algae in your pond it is probably filamentous algae, commonly known as blanket weed. And now the bad news: the best way to get rid of it is to pull it out. Putting a stick in and twirling it around seems to work best, although catching it with a fish net works as well (but you have to be careful what else you catch). Using a rake for a large pond seems to be the preferred method.

The Type of Photo field includes only a few basic types of plants such as fern, tree, vine, etc. The category "annual/perennial" is our default catch-all for plants that don't fit one of the other categories. We recently changed the default to "annual/perennial" from the former "flower", which was even less accurate and an artifact of earlier days when the photo database was "California wildflowers" only.

Ans. A number of plants are found in wetlands, both submerged and emergent. Euglena, algae, hydrilla and coral reefs are examples of submerged wetland plants. Whereas, reed, thypha and lotus are emergent vegetation. A wide variety of wildlife exists in the wetland ecosystems; paramecium, water scoter, fishes, dolphins, water fowls are some prominent animal species. For more details, see question 13.

Half top soil mixed with half potting soil is recommended on pretty much everything. Palm trees require half sand mixed with half top soil. Blueberries like half peat moss mixed with half topsoil. Make sure NO fertilizer is added in the first initial planting.

The PLANTS database contains native and naturalized plants of the PLANTS Floristic Area (PFA), which consists of North America and all additional U.S. territories and protectorates. Vascular plant distributions are mapped at the state and province level, and by U.S. county. Our checklists for the non-vascular mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens cover all of North America north of Mexico; no additional distribution data are available for these plants.

We prefer that our customers remove and/or transplant any exterior plant material before we begin work.

Plants can carry diseases into a tank, too. It is a good idea to disinfect new plants if there were fish in the tank with them at the store. Refer to the PLANT FAQ for disinfection methods.

Please treat hardiness zone ratings on perennials as a best guess, but only a guess. Many factors influence plant survivability: reliable snow cover, wind swept location, proximity of structures, depth of soil, just to name a few.

We are one of the last nurseries on a national scale which propagates, grows, and then ships its own material. We do buy in some of our stock, but basically it is all done here.

PLANTS has a single National Common Name (always found below the scientific name at the top of the PLANTS profile). For some plants, alternative common names appear in the top PLANTS profile box. PLANTS also maintains a single common name for each state; these state common names are available only to NRCS resource managers. There are several possibilities: 1) Your information is more accurate than ours. If so, please use Distribution Update to update our information.

Please cite the National PLANTS Database as indicated on our PLANTS Citation and Acknowledgements page.

There is a synergy between plants, animals & humans and it all evolves around the minerals on our planet. We all rely on minerals and without a sufficient quantity of the right minerals we can suffer.

On mature roses we recommend something like a 5-20-10- to 10-30-20 at ? to b cup per bush. Spread out around the drip line 2 to 4 times a year depending on the natural fertility of your soil. We do not recommend a fertilizer with a systemic insecticide in it.