Mountaineer garden center

05/20/2026

You just never know!

05/17/2026

Pest control works so much better when you don’t wipe out the helpful bugs too 🐞 A few gentle tricks I’d try first:
🥚 Use crushed eggshells as a rough barrier around tender plants
🧻 Slip toilet paper rolls around seedlings to protect young stems
🧄 Try garlic-soaked water for aphids, but test a few leaves first
🪙 Copper tape can help around pots where snails keep showing up
🍎 Apple cider vinegar traps work best away from the plants you’re protecting
The goal isn’t a perfect bug-free garden, it’s keeping pests under control without hurting the helpers.

05/17/2026

A branch that snaps off a willow tree in a storm can become a new tree in two weeks — no nursery, no root ball, no hundred-dollar price tag. Dozens of trees and shrubs grow from nothing but a cutting dropped in water on a windowsill.

- Willow — one of the fastest tree rooters, visible roots in five to seven days, and the cutting releases a natural rooting hormone into the water that helps other plants root faster too
- Elderberry — cut a twelve-inch dormant stem in late winter, strip the lower buds, roots appear in three to four weeks
- Forsythia — snip a six-inch stem of new green growth in spring, roots form in two to three weeks
- Rose — cut an eight-inch stem from a healthy cane, strip the lower leaves and thorns, roots develop in four to six weeks
- Currant — take a ten-inch hardwood cutting in late fall, roots form slowly over winter in water, ready to plant by spring

Honeysuckle, mulberry, privet, dogwood, and crepe myrtle all root the same way — a healthy cutting, a tall glass, and patience measured in weeks instead of dollars.

The most expensive thing at the nursery started out as a stick in someone's glass of water.

05/17/2026

Views from the Garden center today

05/15/2026

Views from the greenhouse

05/15/2026

30 degrees in Banner Elk this morning!

04/30/2026

03/11/2026

Mountaineer garden center in Banner Elk is now hiring for the season. We are looking for plant lovers. Job will be greenhouse work and retail. Applications will be accepted at garden center only. Please no text or emails please.

03/06/2026

Sorry people, just because it's warm outside doesn't mean it's spring! Hold on winter will return!

02/19/2026

Cleaning up flood damage!