• ORDER YOUR POINSETTIAS now for home and office as well as for friends, family, teachers, and neighbors. We’ll be happy to deliver them for you.

• Let Shades of Green be your destination for holiday gifts and accessories. We offer stress-free shopping with easy parking, friendly staff, and an outstanding gift selection.

• Plant bulbs ­— narcissus, hyacinths, Dutch iris, and ranunculus as well as German iris rhizomes.

• Brighten your landscape with colorful annuals–pansies, alyssum, violas, petunias, Johnny jump-ups, snaps, calendulas, stock, etc.

• Fertilize your entire landscape with Landscape Essentials — lawn, shrubs, trees, and even blooming plants.

• Apply mulch or compost around perennials, tropicals, and tender shrubs to protect roots during the winter.

• Plant cole family plants, leafy greens (including spinach), root veggies, onions, garlic, and snow peas.

• Provide food and fresh water for over-wintering birds. Plant and transplant woody trees, shrubs, vines and ground covers.

• Spread 1/2” of compost on your lawn to thicken turf, increase overall health, and to preserve soil moisture.

• Sow wildflower seeds now for colorful explosions in the spring.

• Feed houseplants and those plants that have been brought indoors for the winter.

• Sow Topflight winter rye for a green winter lawn.

• Collect fall leaves for the compost pile. If you don’t have a compost pile, create one!

• Take a break from the holiday madness to enjoy time with close friends and family.