President's Day Weekend SALE & New Plants

The air is full of pollen and love at Johnnye Merle's today!

As part of Country Roads Antiques & Gardens President's Day Weekend celebration, all of our plants will be 20% off! "OMG, for reals???" For reals, indeed.

All those cool new Annie's Annuals & Perennials, the great new stuff from Native Sons Wholesale Nursery, all the fun new seasonal color, all of the AWESOME herbs and veggies: on sale! We don't have many sales, only a few a year, so be sure to stop in and take advantage of these great garden discounts!

New plants for this week: fairy garden low growers, including Leptinella Platt's Black, Irish moss, baby tears and ivy. A BIG selection of Delphiniums, all sorts of cool blues and even a dark blue 'almost black'. Juncus spiralis, the 'corkscrew grass' that everyone is obsessed with (which we have in super cute, small 2" sized pots for a very low price!), some great 'Valentine color', Jasmine wreaths (and a few Jasmine hearts, but get them while you can, as they will be moving fast today!), Nemesia "Shooting Stars" (check out the photo below!), Clarkia (in six packs!), Heliophila "Angel Eyes" (also in demand and will probably go fast!), and lots of other cottage garden goodies!

With the sale prices in effect for only three days, stop in sooner than later and take advantage of the great prices on some very cool plants!

Sale this weekend!

Happy holidays, garden geeks! We hope you all had a lovely Thanksgiving!

We are excited to announce we'll be having at 20% SALE on ALL of our plants this weekend!

Stop in now, because we JUST got an order of new Annie's Annuals & Perennials in, and they will go FAST at this price! :) This is part of Country Roads' larger weekend sale, so it's most definitely worth your time to make a trip out to Old Town Orange this weekend!

Don't forget too, that this Saturday is "Small Business Saturday" - so shop small & local!

Sale is November 29th - December 1st.

Open 10-5pm every day.

See you soon!

Happy President's Day!

Since it's President's Day, we felt it was only appropriate to talk a bit about President's who were also gardeners.

Jefferson once wrote, as the article linked above mentions, that "No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no comparable to that of the garden. I am still devoted to the garden. But though and old man, I am but a young gardener."


Washington and Jefferson were among the most prominent early gardeners, but the tradition carried on through Kennedy on up to the Bush and Obama administrations, interesting stuff!

There is a really cool (well, the review of it seems cool, we haven't actually read it!) book about Presidential Gardening as well, called Founding Gardeners, check it out!

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And when you are done reading, go outside! It's a little overcast right now, but should clear out later today - and with rain predicted for later this week in Orange County, today would make a PERFECT day to do some work in your own "Presidential Garden".

Our big President's Day(s) sale is coming to an end at 5pm tonight, but, until then, you can still take home some awesome plants, including our Annie's Annuals & Perennials selections, 

all for 20% off!!!!

George Washington and Abe Lincoln would approve of this, we assure you!

Have a great holiday!

A new garden obsession...

Lithops!

Have you seen these before? Amazing! They are a type of succulent native to South Africa, better known as 'rock cactus' or 'rock plants'. A friend gave me one for Christmas and I've been fascinated by them ever since!

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We are working on getting some for our own gardens, so you can try them out too - we'll post more info soon!

And don't forget: we are still having a sale!!! 

Our President's Day Sale runs through Monday - stop in and take home some great plants!

Weekend sale!

Happy Friday, gardeners!

This weekend is shaping up to be lovely on every level - amaaaazing weather, an extra holiday on Monday, AND we are having a big 'ole sale on our plants as part of the President's Day celebrations in Old Town Orange! Stop in Saturday though Monday and take home some of our awesome plants for 20% off!

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Just in....

Happy Saturday, garden nerds! It's a three day weekend, SoCal weather is finally GREAT again, our BIG SALE is still going on, AND we just got some new treasures from our friends at Annie's Annuals yesterday! Check 'em out and get gardening:

Agastache 'Globetrotter' - we love agastache! Strong, tall blooms that peak out from the rest of your garden - so inspiring! And pretty!

Selinum wallichianum - such a cool plant! Blooms remind us of Queen Anne's Lace, but the foliage has more of a tropical vibe to it. Great plant for filling in spots and adding some depth and texture.

Viola labradorica - "Labradore Violet" is so...well, CUTE! We said it, it's an actual cute plant!  Likes light shade and consistent water; check out the color of those leaves, a great companion plant to just about anything!

Knautia macedonica - pincushiony (yes, we made up that word!) flowers, great color, and a prolific bloomer. How can you go wrong?

Laurentia axillaris - we just love this little blue bloomer; flowers look like stars, and while at first glance you might not think much of it, rest assured, once it blooms, you'll be glad you added it to your garden!

These plants are just the tip of the iceberg! All sorts of great flowers, herbs, and succulents are to be found in our gardens right now AND, we even have a sale happening right now!

Don't forget that the Orange International Street Fair is happening in old town Orange this weekend. If that's your thing - yay, come in and see us! And if it's decidedly NOT your thing, that's fine too, wait for the crowds to clear out Sunday night and enjoy your day off, as OUR BIG SALE is going through Labor Day Monday!

*All photos courtesy of Annie's Annuals www.anniesannuals.com