Nightingale’s Tully Lakes Hardware Hosts Seasonal Plant Tent

For the second spring since their store opened in the fall of 2011, Nightingale’s Tully Lakes Hardware has set up a seasonal plant tent in the Village of Tully.   From May through early July, the plant tent is packed with a variety of annuals, flowers, bedding plants, vegetables hanging baskets and speciality patio planters.  Like their sister store, Nightingale Mills in Marcellus (which has two full sized greenhouses and a large perennial plant tent), springtime plants bring in a flurry of bright colors, excitement, and waves of customers eager to get their gardens growing. Nightingale’s proudly offers plants and flowers cultivated by New York State growers, including Auburn’s own Dickman Farms Greenhouses. “Spring is a busy time for us- Everyone is working in their yards and starting their gardens. We strive to bring our customers not only beautiful flowers and plants, but also the knowledge they need to make the best plant choices and make their gardens successful” says Kelly Somerlot, daughter of owner Mark Nightingale and sixth generation employee in the family-owned business.  This year, amongst the information Nightingale’s staff will be giving out about seed planting, lawn care, lawn equipment and other landscaping products- employees will also be informing customers about Impatiens Downy Mildew-a problematic disease that is expected to potentially wipe out many plantings of standard and double impatiens this year.  Early symptoms of the fungus-like pathogen include leaf yellowing and curling, and infected plants will eventually drop their flowers and leaves. While impatiens grown under the controlled greenhouse conditions may be healthy, once planted by homeowners they are susceptible to disease spores that have overwintered in the soil or are carried in the wind from other infected plants.  According to U.S. Lawns landscaping and lawn care markets, although impatiens are a tremendously popular plant, particularly as a bedding flower for shady gardens, Nightingale’s is encouraging customers to consider other shade garden choices, such as New Guinea Impatiens (which are not at risk from the disease), begonias, or coleus.

In addition to live plants, Nightingale’s Tully Lakes Hardware carries a wide variety of gardening and lawn care products, including seed potatoes, grass seed and lawn care, fertilizers and Bed Bug Removal NYC, and bagged mulch, soils and landscaping stones.  Stop in to see why Tully Lakes Hardware is much more than just hardware.  Nightingale’s is open 7 days a week in the Village of Tully, next to the post office.

6 Elm Street – Tully – (315) 238-7050

M-F 8am-7pm  Sat 8am-5pm Sun 9am-4pm