See us on t.v with Michael Keelan

If you missed us on SALIFE you can see the segment here. Michael Keelan talks about styling your garden with Mum ( Marian) owner of Serenity Nursery.

Thanks for visiting SALIFE !!!

The blue room

Serenity Nursery Home and Garden wares

Serenity Nursery gorgeous patio settings

 

Serenity Nursery new "blue room"- No more red walls!!!

 

One thing we try to always do is surprise and delight our customers. We had a purple and grey painted room which was painted red about three years ago. Everyone loved "the red room" and we mostly decorated it with Asian style pieces. Well this week we thought out with the old and in with the new. We pained the walls of the red room a pretty pale blue and we love it. It's fresh, summery and bright. Pop in and have a look how we decorated it...our theme was "no theme" and we have mixed french style chairs with modern metal home wares and our very popular multicoloured side board tables.

Enjoy.

 

A gift for a gardener..

Find adorable gifts at Serenity Nursery.

Serenity's woven chairs and urns will add warm to your home or garden.

 

 Come and fossic through our lovely garden gift displays.

You will be sure to find a gift for someone who loves to decorate their home or garden.

Spiral herb garden

Tim and I held a "Growing Herbs" workshop this week and we spoke about creative ways to grow herbs. The D.I.Y spiral herb garden was intriguing to most of the attendees. It's something easy that you can make with rocks, bricks or any material that can be up cycled.

 

The spiral garden is a great way to get kids involved in gardening and is something they can help build themselves. Use different coloured herbs like opal basil, purple sage and bright green chives. Improve biodiversity by mixing in a few flowering plants such as marigolds and nasturtiums.

 

Krystal

Image via Sweet Local Farm’s flickr

New Lifestyle displays

 

Thought I would share with you some displays Kelsey and I worked on today. We are loving all the new decore items to work with!



Bright. Natural...and beautiful.

 

Pretty new floral wall arts, hand-made shell/ teak stools, pom pom through blankets and lots of cool new finds in the giftshop this week. See more at www.serenitynursery.com.au

 

 



 

We received our second lot of hand woven pouffes. Great for indoors or outdoor living area.

 



 

We love this canvas art new in at www.serenitynursery.com.au

Today's Saying:

 

We are adoring the weather in Murray Bridge right now. 20 degrees sure beats 40 degrees.

Although we have been considering doing a rain dance...need more rain please!

 

Enjoy this fine Easter Monday.

Hooray for the Easter long weekend...

 

Happy Easter everyone.

 

Hope you have a safe and happy long weekend.

 

If your spending time at home and need something new for the home or garden or simply need inspiration we will be in the garden centre all week-end. Well someone needs to water the plants so we have opened our doors or should I say grand gates to let those of u who wish to stumble in at some stage.

 

 

Hope u get a chance to be outdoors in the garden!

 

Krystal

xx

Hello Yellow!

So we have been on trend watch this week with a trip interstate and we have discovered

 a whole lot of colour.

There is no right or wrong colour combo. Be brave and mix things up.

...Pink teamed with yellow

Fluros with naturals...

We found yellow was a standout colour as was emerald green.

 Stay tuned to our new shop displays for a brightly coloured surprise.

 

Today's Saying...

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Wake up Maggie

White Magnolias

Hi there, I have had a wee time away from the computer over the last couple of months, so I haven't been posting as much as I would like to. During my time away I managed to travel to Victoria twice, mainly for business but also to have a break from the garden centre and do some sight seeing. I always love exploring Melbourne and I had a chance to visit many remarkable garden centers and I have come back with loads of inspiration. I particulary liked Botanical Creations Plants Plus. The crew there gave us some great ideas for Serenity.

The one thing that always stays in my mind about visiting Melbourne in winter is the magnolia plants I see growing everywhere. I mean it seems every second suburban house has a magnificent flowering magnolia teetering over the front fence. Bright pink, maroon red, white I don't care what colour I love them all. The way the flowers form on bare branches before foliage just adds to the visual drama.

It's just that you rarely see magnolias here in Murray Bridge, mainly for the fact they they thrive in acid soils and our soil is quite alkaline. Of course there are ways to make alkaline soils more acid, mixing in peat and organic matter will help sweeten the soil. A more dramatic way to make alkaline soil more acidic is to add aluminium sulphate or Yates Acetone to your soil. If you want to see the awesome magnoliage blooms for yourself pop into the nursery over the next week or so we have some coming in including one of my favorites called Black Tulip. Oh and how can I forget magnolias have the most divine fragrance..

Hope I can keep my posts more regular and happy gardening!!

Bye for now
Krystal

Picture: White Magnolias at Bay Road Nursery By Krystal James.

Amazing Style Issue!

Wow! Our Teak Deer Head wall mount is featured in this months (August 2012) Real Living magazine- The amazing style issue!

Editor Deborah Bibby featured it in The Editors letter and said "The timber deer head is another classic and this piece is more affordable; in fact, it's a bargain buy! ( I hope that our finance whiz Mark Bouris is not reading this or I'm in trouble.)

Thanks Deborah. We love it when people see value in our items and their originality. We are Very happy and humbled to see one of our products in your magazine. xx

Today's Mantra



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Today's humor

Step on it.

My front garden is very simple with low growing hedging box plants and a couple of patches of flat mulch. The mulch is fine as it allows the rain to penetrate into the ground and water the plants around it.I have been thinking about amping up the style and filling the mulch voids with some large format pavers and planting some low growing plants in between.

I found these images that gave me some inspiration...

I like this idea as environmentally it allows water to go in between each paver. Don't rule out using pebbles in between pavers either. Pebbles can act as a mulch by retaining moister in the ground and suppress weeds.

I plan on using the pavers  hand made at Serenity Nursery, they are 500mmx 500mm which is a large format paver and looks great in a small space.

Low growing plants that work well in between pavers:

Dichondra

Creeping Thyme

Dwarf mondo grass

Liriope

Trailing Succulents

Baby tears

Green Eyes...

New handbags, home decore and arm chairs in our giftshop today.

New rustic urns & canvas art on show in our pavilion.

Terracotta garden frogs that we imported are a fun garden gift idea.

Today...

The garden centre is still very colourful coming into winter. Lots of cottage plants and potted colour to make us smile.

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Deluxe Nectar

 ...Our new terracotta birds and pink lanterns are the perfect garden accessory.

Mother's Day is the prettiest time of year in our garden centre. Pink lilliums, orchids, hyacinth, gerberas, cyclamens and camellias are in bloom. We go mad with our deluxe plant gift wrapping using the prettiest printed papers.

Eclectic Style with my fave finds.

An eclectic Visual merchandising display with new home ware finds.

Two of my favourite finds on our buying trip were the teak timber deer wall hangings and cow hide stools. I had purchased them for my own home, but I was so excited to show them off I displayed them in our lifestyle pavilion today. The teak carved bench was also an overseas find.

The Pothole Gardener

 Pot hole before

Pot hole after.

Holes of happiness.

I stumbled across this quirky idea today. When you have no garden why not hit the streets with your green thumb. That's what Australian born Londoner and gardening guru Steeve wheen did with his 'The pot hole gardener' project. The left of field project is described by Wheen as an urban experiment and creative pursuit to bring a little greenery to the city streets one pot hole at a time.

Wheen fills East London’s problem potholes in roads and footpaths with soil and living plants, decorating them with miniature props to create gorgeous tiny worlds.

What do you think?