Giant Plant Sale at McCorkle Nurseries

04/03/2023

McCorkle Nurseries Dearing Operations

We have loved having our Giant Plant Sale through the years, but do not have one scheduled for the foreseeable future. We are really busy supplying plants to neighborhood garden centers, home stores, online sellers, landscape stores, rewholesalers, and garden professionals throughout the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic.

McCorkle Nurseries Plants are Quality Plants. Ask for them by name. See our growing operations: https://youtu.be/4z1D_YC82pQ

It's our 80th year in business. Click here to see the message from our CEO, Skeetter McCorkle. www.mccorklenurseries.com/our-nursery/

Check out the McCorkle-owned brand of premium, beautiful and dependable varieties with enhanced genetic selections tested for performance. Gardener's Confidence Plants: Plant - Grow - Smile! www.gardenersconfidence.com

Where to buy Gardener's Confidence plants grown by McCorkle Nurseries and our network of wholesale growers: www.gardenersconfidence.com/where-to-buy/

Wholesale Buyers: McCorkle Nurseries Dearing Operations is a wholesale grower and sells to companies with a business license and, for Georgia companies, a Georgia Nursery License. For more information on becoming a wholesale customer, please see our Become a Customer page at www.mccorklenurseries.com

Our Brands Careers Affiliations Research Nursery Gallery About Us “Since 1942, McCorkle Nurseries has been dedicated to providing our customers with the right plant, at the right time, in the right package, and for the right price. We are committed to living up to our motto, ‘Quality First, Serv...

10/21/2022

Find McCorkle plants near you. https://gardenersconfidence.com/where-to-buy

09/26/2022

We will not be hosting a Giant Plant Sale this fall, 2022. Our quality plants are available at local garden centers throughout the entire Mid-Atlantic and Southeast. Please check your local preferred garden center and ask for McCorkle-grown plants. Thank you!

03/11/2022

Spring is here! Please support our retail partners! Our plants are available in local retail garden centers and home stores in the southeast and mid-Atlantic.

There is currently not a scheduled Giant Plant Sale. We appreciate your interest.

We are a fourth-generation horticultural nursery founded in 1942. Offering quality grown plants, our mission is to ‘Make our world better with plants.’

07/09/2021

Hello Everyone! We are hiring at the nursery for different positions. Come by the Human Resources Department to get an application !
McCorkle Nurseries, Inc.

07/09/2021

Hello Everyone! We are currently hiring at the nursery. Come by and pick up an application. Multiple positions open!

Open Monday- Friday 8AM- 5PM in the Human Resources Department.

07/09/2021

Hola a todos ! Estamos contratando en los viveros ! Aplican Hoy.

05/31/2021

A wonderful way to honor our loved ones with bulbs that rebloom every year.

Memorial Day weekend is almost upon us! Wishing you a wonderful and safe Memorial Day weekend.

Some history from 1886 to today

Before the Civil War ended, women’s groups got together to decorate and place flowers on the graves of the soldiers who had passed away. On April 12, 1886, the Columbus Ladies Memorial Association in Columbus, Georgia, announced they would dedicate one day a year to decorating graves as a way to remember fallen soldiers.
This eventually led to the federal holiday. Before 1971, this was known as Decoration Day. The very first Decoration Day was celebrated on May 30, 1868, as the future president James A. Garfield gave a remembrance speech to thousands of onlookers at Arlington National Cemetery. Today, Memorial Day is celebrated at Arlington National Cemetery with a ceremony in which a small American flag is placed on each of the over 400,000 graves. Many people also place flowers to honor their loved ones this weekend.

God Bless America. 🇱🇷

05/25/2021

Memorial Day weekend is almost upon us! Here's some flower history about this special day. 🌹

Before the Civil War ended, women’s groups got together to decorate and place flowers on the graves of the soldiers who had passed away. On April 12, 1886, the Columbus Ladies Memorial Association in Columbus, Georgia, announced they would dedicate one day a year to decorating graves as a way to remember fallen soldiers.

This eventually led to the federal holiday. Before 1971, this was known as Decoration Day. The very first Decoration Day was celebrated on May 30, 1868, as the future president James A. Garfield gave a remembrance speech to thousands of onlookers at Arlington National Cemetery. Today, Memorial Day is celebrated at Arlington National Cemetery with a ceremony in which a small American flag is placed on each of the over 400,000 graves. Many people also place flowers to honor their loved ones on Memorial Day. We hope you have a SAFE and BLESSED holiday weekend! 🇱🇷

05/05/2021

Milly Rock™ Red Yarrow beautifully blooming today at the nursery - available online and at your local retail garden centers.

04/30/2021

04/24/2021

spring and summer are the best times for outside time!

Growing Up in the Garden:

School gardens are nothing new. The first recorded school garden program in Europe was in 1811 and the first of the American school gardens was in 1891. Victory gardens in the United States School Garden Army (USSGA) became popular during WWI. The goal was to incorporate an agriculture curriculum into public school education. At that time, the schools grew relief gardens during the Great Depression and they were used to raise the spirits of the local citizens and nourish the students and their families.

During WWII, victory gardens were popular again. The green revolutions of the 1970s and 1990s led to school garden initiatives and the trend continued with Michelle Obama’s ‘Let’s Move Campaign’. Today the USDA National Farm to School Movement is continuing the efforts of educating children about vegetable gardening and both the nutritional and well-being benefits of growing and consuming these foods.

Research compiled by the National Initiative for Consumer Horticulture (NICH) reveals the benefits of plants and gardening on the learning process, including a 10% or more improvement on test scores, an increase in positive feelings, a reduction in misbehavior, and an increase in creativity and a calmer more relaxed mood reported by both teachers and students.

More findings on the learning benefits of plants can be found in the infographic, “ Where We Learn,” available for download, reprint, or adaptation at ConsumerHort.org. When posting on social media, please use the hashtag .

The National Initiative for Consumer Horticulture (NICH) is a consortium of industry leaders who are promoting the benefits and value of horticulture. NICH brings together academia, government, industry, and nonprofits to cultivate the growth and development of a healthy world through landscapes, gardens and plants — indoors and out.

To celebrate Kids Gardening Month, we’ve compiled a “Horticulture Hunt” for you to share and engage in! Check it out.

Post from the National Initiative for Consumer Horticulture (NICH): https://consumerhort.org/growing-up-in-the-garden/

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