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Our Fall 2009 color guide is available online
click here

Spring 2010 color guide coming soon

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Mark Ruibal's
Garden Corner

After the near record freezes in North Texas recently, your pansies may be looking a little less than perfect. In order to get the color back as quickly as possible, take a few minutes to fertilize and dead head the sad plants.  Start by "dead-heading" or pinching off the old blooms. The best way is by hand, and just use your fingers to snap the stem containing spent blooms off just above the leaves. Then add an all purpose fertilizer like Color Star time release to feed your beleaguered plants.  You'll speed up the re-blooming process, and with a few days of sunshine, the color will return to your beds.  If your plants are beyond help, and the leaves are yellowed, and wilted, it might be time to just come back in and get a few more plants to tide you over until the spring.  We still have a great selection of pansies at both of our nurseries.  We'll probably even make you a deal on a few replacements.  Remember though that mulching your beds will help insulate against the cold...and retain water in the hotter months.

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Look in the garden accents section of this website for the latest pictures of our interior gardens.

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GO GREEN!!!

In order to keep some plastic out of our landfills and reuse what we can, we are starting an empty flat buyback program.  We'll offer a 5 cent credit per flat for each empty flat you bring back to us.  We can't use the individual 4" pots, but the empty flats themselves are easily reusable. 

A second program we've started is a Colorstar fertilizer refill program.  If you bring back your empty 2, 4 or 11 lb colorstar fertilizer jars, we'll refill them and give you a 20% discount off of the new jar price. 

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Take a virtual tour of our Farmers Market Location. 

Arnulfo Gamez is our main "plantero" and responsible for 90% of the beautiful color bowls, topiaries and mixed pots available at Ruibal's, or if you have pots of your own, just bring them in and in 24 hours, he'll work his magic and make your pots come to life with flowers