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Dear Chalet Signature Customer:With the heat and dry conditions that we are experiencing, we wanted to send you a friendly reminder to water your planter arrangements and annual beds.  You will...

    Straight Talk Ligustrum    Cheyenne: A hardy large shrub for use in trimmed hedges. Takes shearing exceptionally well. It's also known as the European Privet. If left unpruned, it grows ...

    Landmark Landmark   A dark pink version of the popular and hardy PJM small leaf Rhododendron. Dome-shaped trusses of funnel-shaped fuchsia pink flowers emerge in early spring, overlappin...

            Indoor Arrangements  Chalet’s indoor arrangements are created in the “Florist Trade” style with no drainage hole so that furniture is not damaged by drainage water. Arrangements are...

By Tony Filmer    Flowers, like celebrities, can have cyclical popularity. Based on the volume of customer questions dahlias are the smokin’ hot plant right now. Don’t know them? Check them out at...

 A Spring Pansy Primer By Tony Fulmer  If you haven’t planted pansies or violas to jump start your spring garden you’re robbing yourself of weeks of additional color. And no matter how mild March ...

  Ornamental trees personalize your landscape by creating focal points and defining spaces. By choosing trees with eye-catching ornamental features such as unusual form, showy flowers or distinctiv...

Air Plants What are They and How to Use Them   Tillandsias – Air Plants The grey tillandsias Differ from green cousins Bear absorbent furry scales –called “trichomes” Take up water from humidity...

Chalet Garden Coach Jennifer Brennan August 20, 2020 TOPICS: Monday Phil Schwarz announced that from July 1 to August 17 the Chicago area had only had 3 inches of rain when the average was 6.5! M...

Chalet Garden Coach August 13, 2020 The fluctuating weather is still impacting us AND our landscapes – the 10 day “early Fall” temperatures were an absolute saving grace for our plants. The rain ...