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Maria's Greenhouse, 7 N Baker Road, Salmon, ID (2026)

05/23/2026

🌱 Ageratum (a.k.a. Floss Flower)
Soft lavender puffballs that look like they were spun out of cotton candy and dropped onto a tidy mound of green. The color sits in that cool blue-violet range that's hard to find in the annual world — and ageratum delivers it from June through frost without flagging.
Looks. Compact, bushy plants 6–12 inches tall, covered in clusters of fringed, fluffy flowers in soft lavender-purple. Foliage is soft and slightly fuzzy, heart-shaped, and stays a clean medium green all season. Reads as cool, calm, and a little old-fashioned — the kind of flower your grandmother grew along the front walk.
Growing. Full sun to part shade. Likes consistent moisture and a little richness in the soil — not picky, but happier with regular water than parched. Deadheading isn't strictly required (newer varieties are self-cleaning) but a quick shear mid-summer keeps things tidy. Hardy down to about 45°F, so wait until nights are reliably warm before setting them out.
Uses. Front-of-border filler, edging along a walkway, or tucked into the front lip of a mixed container where the lavender picks up the cool tones in a petunia or calibrachoa. Pairs beautifully with yellow marigolds, white alyssum, or pink wax begonias — and the soft purple is one of the few annual colors that actually reads from a distance without shouting.
Deer Rating: 🦌 8/10 — Sometimes browsed.
Deer generally leave it alone — the fuzzy leaves and faint scent aren't on their preferred menu — but in a hungry year or a high-pressure yard, nothing's guaranteed. Worth planting in deer country with realistic expectations.
🌿 Fun fact: The name "ageratum" comes from the Greek for "not aging" — a nod to how long the flowers hold their color before fading. The Victorians grew it in cutting gardens for exactly that reason.
📍 Maria's Greenhouse at Baker Country Market, 9 miles south of Salmon.

05/22/2026

🌱 Tomato Starts — Starting at $1.25 each
We're getting our tomatoes in the ground this week, and if you've been waiting on yours, the window's open but it won't stay open long. Lemhi County gives us a short season — late frosts in the rearview (mostly — keep a sheet handy, June can still surprise us), first frost already counting down — so every warm week between now and August is one your plants need to set fruit and ripen it. Whatever your row looks like, we've got a plant to fill it: $1.25 starts by the four-pack, singles for filling gaps, and big gallon-pot plants already setting flowers if you want a jump on harvest.

This year's varieties include:
🍅 Mountain Fresh Plus
The slicer we plant for ourselves. Bred by Dr. Randy Gardner at NC State for growers who can't afford a bad year — and that's most of us in the Lemhi. Big 10–12 oz globes, deep red clear through, smooth shoulders, crack-resistant skin. Heavy early set, ripens evenly, and shrugs off the cool nights that stop other varieties cold. If you only have room for one slicer, plant this one.
🍅 Celebrity
An AAS winner from 1984 and still the most reliable red tomato on the market. About 70 days to ripe fruit, 8–10 oz globes, with the kind of classic balanced flavor people mean when they say "tomato." Resistant to just about every disease that wants to take a tomato down — verticillium, fusarium, nematodes, to***co mosaic. Forgiving of bad weeks, generous in good ones. A good first tomato for anyone new to gardening.
🍅 Carolina Gold
A golden-yellow slicer that surprises people. Big 8–10 oz fruit, low acid, mild and almost buttery on the tongue — the kind of tomato that wins over folks who swore tomatoes weren't for them. Holds on the vine without splitting and looks beautiful on a plate sliced next to a red. Pair it with Mountain Fresh Plus for a two-color sandwich that'll stop conversation at the table.
🍅 Roma
The paste tomato every Italian grandmother kept in her garden. Meaty, dry flesh, few seeds, and shaped like a small egg. Plants ripen in waves — perfect if you want to put up a batch of sauce on Saturday and another the following weekend. Cook them down with garlic, basil, and olive oil and you've got a winter's worth of jars on the shelf. Plant a full row if you can spare the dirt.
🍅 Sweet Million
Long trusses of small, deep-red cherry tomatoes — and the name isn't marketing. A single plant will put off hundreds of fruit through the season, sweet enough to eat straight off the vine and crack-resistant enough to stay on the plant when an afternoon thunderstorm rolls through. Good luck getting them to the kitchen. Most never make it past the garden gate.
🍅 Yellow Pear
A true heirloom — documented in American gardens before 1800 and probably older than that in Europe. Bright lemon-yellow, shaped exactly like the name says, mild and sweet with a clean finish. Plants are indeterminate and prolific — you'll be giving them away by August. Toss them into a salad with red cherries for a bowl that looks like sunshine. Kids will eat them like candy, and that's how you raise a gardener.
…and a few more on the bench worth a look when you stop in.
Pricing:
🌱 4-Packs — $4.99 ($1.25 a plant — the way to go if you've got the row space)
🌱 Single Starts — $1.99 each
🌱 Large Plants — $9.99 each (a real head start if you're getting a late jump on the season)
📍 Maria's Greenhouse at Baker Country Market— 9 miles south of Salmon.

05/22/2026

Memorial Day Weekend Sale — Starts Today

Friday, Saturday, and Monday. We'll be open Monday until 1:00 PM, then closing up so the crew can celebrate with friends and family.
Two sales running all three days:
🌸 12" Fuchsia Hanging Baskets — $25
Loaded with blooms and buds. Hang one on a shaded porch and it'll keep putting on a show all summer. These move fast at this price — when they're gone, they're gone.
🌹 OSO Easy Red Stripe Rose — $9.99
A Proven Winners landscape rose that earns its keep. No spraying, no fussing — just deep candy-red blooms with creamy streaks from spring through frost. Tough enough for the Lemhi Valley and pretty enough to plant out front.
Come today, come Saturday, come Monday morning — whichever fits your weekend.
📍 Maria's Greenhouse at Baker Country Market — 9 miles south of Salmon.

05/16/2026

Waikiki Sunset — golden foliage and buttercup blooms that spill right over the pot edge.
This Lysimachia congestiflora is grown for its leaves as much as its flowers. Each one is chartreuse to gold with a soft green center splash, and the trailing stems carry clusters of bright yellow, red-throated blooms. The whole plant glows, especially in a container where it can cascade.
It wants sun to part shade and consistently moist soil — this one does not like to dry out, so plan on regular water in summer heat. It trails and creeps rather than mounding up, which makes it a strong "spiller" in mixed pots, hanging baskets, or as a fast groundcover in a damp spot. One frank note: in our zone it's grown as an annual, and given moisture it can spread vigorously, so keep it contained if you don't want it wandering.
Deer Rating: 🦌 5/10 — Frequently browsed
🌿 The species name congestiflora refers to the way its flowers cluster tightly together at the stem tips, rather than spacing out along the stem.
📍 Maria's Greenhouse at Baker Country Market, 9 miles south of Salmon.

05/16/2026

🌡️ Cold mornings are coming — is your garden ready?
The next few mornings are going to dip low, and if you've got tender plants out there, you already know how that story may end. A hard frost doesn't care how much work you put into those starts.
A greenhouse is the difference between covering plants with a bedsheet at 10 p.m. and just walking out with your coffee in the morning. These are built right here in Salmon, Idaho — solid wood framing, twin-wall polycarbonate roof that holds heat, big operable windows, and an automatic vent opener that cracks the roof vent on warm afternoons so you don't cook everything on the first sunny day.
We've got them on the lot now in three sizes — 8×8, 8×12, and 8×16 — in a handful of color and trim combinations. The 8×8 fits a backyard corner; the 8×16 gives you full bench runs down both sides with a center aisle. Worth being straight with you: these are unheated structures. They'll buy you weeks on each end of the season and shrug off a light frost, but a deep cold snap still calls for a small heater inside. They extend your season — they don't erase winter.
It's only a few cold mornings this stretch, not a season change — but if freezing your starts isn't on this year's to-do list, come take a look while it's on your mind.
📍 Maria's Greenhouse at Baker Country Market, 9 miles south of Salmon.

05/15/2026

🌳 Shade in this lifetime: two Freeman Maples.
A Freeman maple is what you plant when you want shade in this lifetime, not the next one. It's a cross between silver maple and red maple, and it inherited the silver's speed — three feet of growth in a good year — without the silver's habit of dropping limbs in every windstorm. The red maple side gives it a real autumn instead of the dull yellow a silver maple calls fall color.
We brought in two this week, and the choice between them comes down to one question: how much room do you have?
Autumn Blaze is the wide one — a broad oval crown stretching 30 to 40 feet across, 40 to 55 feet tall, turning a hard orange-red every October. It's the Freeman maple most people picture, and for good reason. If you've got an open yard and want a big canopy throwing shade on the house by the time the kids are grown, this is it.
Celebration is the disciplined one. Narrower — 25 to 35 feet wide — with a stronger central leader and wider branch angles, which is arborist-speak for "less likely to split down the middle in an ice storm." Fall color runs yellow to orange rather than pure red. If your space is tight, or you just want the tree you'll never have to worry about, Celebration earns its keep.
Both are hardy well past anything Salmon throws at them. Both want full sun, deep water through the first few summers, and well-drained soil — though they'll tolerate less. After that they mostly raise themselves.
Two honest cautions. First, the bark is thin and our deer will rub their antlers raw against a young trunk come fall — a guard from late October to Memorial Day prevents a dead tree, but pull it in summer so you're not trapping moisture. Second, the bigger picture: Autumn Blaze has been planted on every street in America for forty years. If your block is already lined with them, plant Celebration — or something that isn't a maple at all. Dutch elm disease and emerald ash borer both got their reach from neighborhoods betting everything on one tree. Don't hand the next pest an easy map.
🌿 The Freeman maple carries the name of Oliver Freeman, a botanist at the U.S. National Arboretum who made the first deliberate silver-by-red maple crosses in the 1930s. Nature had been making the same hybrid on its own wherever the two species grew side by side — Freeman was just the first to do it on purpose and write it down, and that was enough to get a wild accident named after him.
Deer Rating: 🦌 5/10 — Frequently browsed. Deer browse young maple leaves, but the real damage is antler rubbing — a buck working a thin-barked young trunk in fall can girdle and kill the tree in a single night. Mature trees shrug it off; the first few years are the danger window. Guard the trunk in fall, fence if you can.
📍 Maria's Greenhouse at Baker Country Market, 9 miles south of Salmon.

05/15/2026

🌸 2-day Calibrachoa sale — Friday & Saturday
4-inch potted Calibrachoa, $4.99 each or 5 for $20. Friday and Saturday only, May 15 and 16.
If you've got hanging baskets or porch pots to fill, this is the plant — Calibrachoa (a.k.a. "Million Bells") trails, blooms hard all summer, and doesn't need deadheading. Wants full sun and regular water. Mix colors across five pots and you've got a season's worth of container color for twenty bucks.
📍 Maria's Greenhouse at Baker Country Market, 9 miles south of Salmon.

05/14/2026

🌹 Oso Easy Red Stripe: a landscape rose that looks like an heirloom
Most modern landscape roses are bred for toughness at the expense of charm — five plain petals, predictable color, the same flower over and over. Oso Easy Red Stripe gets the toughness without giving up the show. Each bloom is a swirl of red, pink, and white, fully double, no two patterns alike on a single bush. From a distance it reads as a deep pink shrub in full bloom; up close, every flower is its own thing.
Built like the rest of the Oso Easy series: own-root (no graft to fail), hardy to Zone 4, resistant to black spot, powdery mildew, and rose rosette disease, and continuous-blooming from June through frost without deadheading. Mature size 3 to 4.5 feet tall and wide. Glossy dark green foliage that stays clean all season.
Full sun, at least 6 hours. Well-drained soil. Water deeply but infrequently once established. Prune in early spring by cutting back a third of the plant's height just above a healthy bud — that's the entire maintenance routine. No spray schedule, no fussing.
🌿 Striped roses go back centuries — 'Rosa Mundi' from the 12th century is the oldest documented striped variety in cultivation, supposedly named for the mistress of King Henry II of England. For most of rose-breeding history, the stripes were an unstable mutation that often reverted to solid color. The modern stripe roses, including Oso Easy Red Stripe, hold their pattern reliably across every bloom — the result of decades of selective breeding to lock in what used to be a happy accident.
Deer Rating: 🦌 2/10 — Deer salad bar. Like every rose, this one's at the top of the deer menu. The "deer resistant" claims on some tag descriptions are optimistic at best — in our valley, plant it inside a fence, close to the house, or expect to defend it actively through the growing season.
📍 Maria's Greenhouse at Baker Country Market, 9 miles south of Salmon.

05/14/2026

Begonias: built for the shady spots.
Most plants that bloom this hard need full sun. Begonias break the rule — they bring rose-form doubles, ruffled tropicals, and angel-wing singles to the part of the yard where everything else just grows leaves. If you have a north porch, a covered patio, or an east-facing entryway that gets bright light but no harsh afternoon sun, begonias are the plant that fills it with color all summer.
We've got several types on hand right now: Solenia (Rieger) begonias with the tight rose-form doubles in red, yellow, and orange — these handle a bit more sun than older varieties and bloom non-stop. Tuberous begonias with the big ruffled, full-petaled flowers in saturated reds, yellows, and soft peach tones. Dragon Wing-type angel-wings in pink, with the larger arching foliage and clusters of single flowers that hummingbirds work all day. Each type has its own habit, but they all want roughly the same thing.
Bright shade or filtered light, never harsh afternoon sun — leaves scorch and flowers fade. Consistent moisture, but never soggy; begonias are one of the few plants that will rot from over-watering faster than they'll wilt from under-watering. Let the top of the soil dry between waterings. Pot them up in a container with drainage holes and good potting mix; they don't want heavy garden soil. Pinch off spent flowers and stems for a tidier plant, though most of these are self-cleaning and don't strictly need it.
A few honest notes for this valley. Begonias are frost-tender — first hard frost ends the season. Tuberous begonias can be dug, dried, and stored over winter in a cool dark spot, then replanted next spring; the Solenias and Dragon Wings are usually treated as one-season plants. They don't love hot dry wind, so a sheltered spot pays off. And they're not cheap to replace, so a covered porch where they're protected from both sun and weather is the best investment.
🌿 The genus is named for Michel Bégon, a 17th-century French governor of the colony of Saint-Domingue who never bred a single begonia. He was a patron of botany who funded plant-collecting expeditions to the Caribbean, and when his botanist Charles Plumier discovered the genus in 1690, he named it after his patron as a thank-you. There are now more than 2,000 species and over 10,000 named cultivars — making Begonia one of the largest plant genera in the world, all traced back to a thank-you note.
Deer Rating: 🦌 7/10 — Sometimes browsed. Begonias contain oxalic acid, which makes the leaves and stems mildly bitter and gives most deer a reason to skip them. They'll occasionally sample the flowers if nothing better is around, but they're rarely a repeat target. A safer choice than most flowering annuals for a deer-pressured shaded entryway.
📍 Maria's Greenhouse at Baker Country Market, 9 miles south of Salmon.

05/13/2026

🌹 'Nearly Wild': an own-root rose built for our winters
Most roses sold today are grafted, meaning the variety you bought is joined to a different rootstock at the base. In our winters that graft union is the weakest link — when temps drop hard enough, it can fail, and the plant either dies or comes back as the rootstock instead of what you planted. 'Nearly Wild' skips the problem entirely. It's grown on its own roots, so if the top freezes back, it regenerates true to type from its own base. Plenty of roses do well in Salmon with the right care; this one just makes it easier.
The flowers are simple and honest: clear pink, five petals, yellow stamen center, 2 to 3 inches across. They bloom in clusters nearly continuously from June through frost. Fragrance is mild — the tag calls it "slight apple," and that's accurate. The plant stays compact at about 3 feet tall and wide. Good as a low hedge, a border, or a single anchor shrub.
Full sun, at least 6 hours. Well-drained soil — roses hate wet feet, especially over winter. Water deeply but infrequently. Expect some cane-tip dieback in a hard winter; prune it out in spring and the plant pushes back from healthy wood below. The thorns are real, so don't plant it where you brush past.
🌿 'Nearly Wild' was introduced in 1941 by the Brownell family of Providence, Rhode Island, who spent decades breeding what they called "sub-zero roses" — varieties tough enough for New England winters without the heavy mulching and rose cones fussier hybrids required. The rose nearly disappeared from the trade in the 1970s and 80s, then was rediscovered growing untended at abandoned homesteads in the upper Midwest, still blooming after decades of neglect. The name turned out to be a fair description of how it lives.
Deer Rating: 🦌 2/10 — Deer salad bar. Roses are at the top of the deer menu, and 'Nearly Wild' is no exception. Plant it inside a fence, close to the house, or be ready with repellent and netting through tender new growth. The thorns deter nothing.
📍 Maria's Greenhouse at Baker Country Market, 9 miles south of Salmon.

05/13/2026

Coleus: the plant that earns its keep with leaves
Walk past the coleus bench and you stop looking for flowers. The leaves are doing all the work — burgundy edged in lime, deep wine veined with magenta, near-chartreuse splashed with plum, soft yellows shot through with green. Some leaves are smooth and broad, others ruffled at the edges or cut like a maple. No two pots look the same, and they all hold their color from May until first frost without a single bloom to maintain.
This year's selection runs the full range. The dark wine-and-magenta types make a strong anchor in a container. The bright yellow-and-green variegations lighten up a shaded corner. The deeply ruffled red-and-yellow varieties bring texture you can see from across the yard. Mix them together in a single pot and you get something that looks designed.
A few things worth knowing for the Lemhi Valley. Coleus prefers morning sun with afternoon shade — most varieties will scorch and fade in our direct afternoon heat. They want consistent water; they wilt fast and dramatically when dry, but usually recover if you catch them in time. When small flower spikes start forming on top, pinch them off — coleus blooms are insignificant, and pulling them keeps the plant full and the leaf color saturated. One frank thing: coleus is tender. First frost ends the season. Treat it as a one-summer plant, or bring a whole pot indoors before the cold hits and keep it on a bright windowsill through winter.
🌿 Coleus was a Victorian-era obsession. In the 1860s and 1870s, British and American collectors paid the equivalent of hundreds of dollars for a single named variety, and rare cultivars were displayed under lock and key at horticultural shows. The mania collapsed almost overnight when growers figured out coleus roots so easily that anyone with a windowsill could propagate a "rare" plant in a few weeks. The market crashed, the obsession faded, and coleus quietly settled into its current role as the most generous shade plant in the garden center.
Deer Rating: 🦌 8/10 — Sometimes browsed. Coleus is in the mint family and carries that aromatic, slightly bitter chemistry deer tend to avoid. They'll rarely commit to it, though a curious young deer might take a test bite before moving on. One of the safer choices for a deer-pressured shaded bed.
📍 Maria's Greenhouse at Baker Country Market, 9 miles south of Salmon.

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