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Star Nursery has been privately owned and operated for 36 years. We are proud to be the premier garden center for all your landscaping needs. Currently, we operate in Southern Nevada, Southern Utah and Northern Arizona with a total of 16 Garden Centers and 9 Decorative Rock Yards. We cater to both residential and commercial clientele. Star Nursery offers the best in garden supplies. From a large assortment of trees to shrubbery, drought tolerant plants, succulents and houseplants, we have landscape material to suit anyone’s lifestyle. We offer the largest and most complete line of products that include irrigation supplies, gardening accessories, yard tools, succulents, houseplants, pottery and our very own exclusive line of Dr. Q’s Garden Products. This line of products consists of soils and fertilizers that are specifically formulated to help you succeed with your gardening efforts in the Southwest Region. We also carry a selection of hardscape products ranging from flagstone and pavers to decorative rock and bulk soils. Find everything you need to maintain a beautiful landscape or garden space. We pride ourselves in giving our customers the right price and best advice.
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Spring Gardening Calendar
March • Grow like a pro. Start with herbs. Whether in pots or in the garden, now is the time to prepare the soil. Check out Star Note #215 - Growing Herbs in the Desert, for a selection of popular varieties successfully grown here. • It’s totally time for tomatoes. An early start ensures a good crop since many varieties will not set fruit in the heat of summer. Plant different types for a continuous supply as harvest dates vary. Some good choices are Early Girl, Patio, Cherry, Roma and Heatwave. • Don’t forget to feed your plants. Your evergreen and desert shrubs will need nutrients throughout the summer to keep them healthy and hardy. Dr Q’s Tree, Shrub & Vine or Desert Plant & Cactus foods are specially formulated for our soils and water. Start fertilizing your lawns now to revive them after the cold weather. • Be proactive. Use a pre-emergent like Hi Yield Pre-Emergent Granuals in your flower beds, or Bonide Crabgrass & Weed Preventer on your lawn to prevent weed seeds from growing. If you have weeds already actively growing, use a contact or translocator herbicide to kill them before they spread any further. • Check your irrigation! Thoroughly inspect your irrigation system for breaks, leaks and improperly working emitters and sprinklers. Shrubs and trees need watering two days a week now, and lawns need three days a week. • Uncover overwintered plants. Cacti and succulents can now be uncovered or planted outside if brought indoors. Keep burlap handy just in case overnight temperatures drop.
April • Plant warm season vegetables! Melons, cucumbers, eggplant, peppers, beans and squash should be planted now. Some folks plant them earlier, but these vegetables establish more quickly when the soil is a little warmer. Many successful gardeners wait until after the 2nd week of June to evade the devastating destruction of the “Squash Beetle.” • Brighten up your landscape with annual and perennial flowers. Many varieties of colorful bedding plants and 1-gallon color for the warm season are available now! • Control insects! Always use the most environmentally safe method possible. For stubborn pests or severe infestations, use Rose & Flower Insect Killer for fast control. These products are waterproof and kid/pet safe once spray has dried. For vegetable and herb gardens, use safe products like Insecticidal Soap for aphids and BT Worm Killer for worms and caterpillars. • Apply cedar mulch to the surface of your vegetable gardens and flowerbeds, as well as around trees and shrubs. This will keep the soil cool, repel insects, and insulate roots. • Fertilize your container plants. Apply a mild fertilizer like Dr. Q’s Plant Tonic. Use oversized pots to surround your plant containers and keep them from overheating. Watch water needs carefully and adjust as temperatures rise. • Newly planted trees in lawn need additional deep-water irrigation. The sprinkler system for the lawn will not give the tree deep enough watering. Consider trenching and installing emitters around the tree’s dripline, connected to the zone that waters the rest of your trees and shrubs.
May • Reset your irrigation controller. Trees and shrubs should be watered 3 days a week. The best time to water is in the early morning before sunrise. • Refresh your potted plants. Add new potting soil or transplant overgrown house and patio plants into larger containers with fresh soil. Use a long and slow outdoor watering to leach buildup of fertilizer and other salts from the soil. • Prepare your lawn for summer. Fertilize lawns before the end of the month to get them through the first heat wave. Use Dr. Q’s Royal Flush to get the lawn off to a great start and condition it for the coming summer. This superb lawn fertilizer lasts up to 12 weeks, and conditions your soil while feeding the turf. White grub and sod webworm larvae may show up in some lawns this month. Although difficult to control, treating late in the afternoon, when larvae are near the surface feeding, will increase success. • Be picky about your fertilizer. Dr Q’s foods are fortified with all the micronutrients missing in our desert soils. Without this balance many of the nutrients will not be available to the plants. Renew mulches, amend soil, check pH and conduct soil-tests as necessary. • Prune desert plants lightly to reduce stress from overgrown foliage and seed pods. Be careful not to expose tender trunks and branches to full sun if they have been well-shaded previously.
Spruce Up and Over-Seed Your Lawn Star Note #830
Is your lawn looking a bit thin and spotty? Do you have grass that goes completely brown in winter? Do you have bare spots? How do you spruce up your lawn to correct these conditions? The following information will help you fix a problem lawn. Before we begin, it’s important to know what kind of grass you have and how it’s affected by our tough desert weather. GRASSES MOST COMMONLY GROWN IN OUR CLIMATE. The overwhelming majority of lawns planted with seed or sod are fescue or bermuda. Blue grass and Ryegrass are planted to a lesser extent. For information and descriptions of seed types, refer to StarNote 800, “Planting a New Lawn From Seed.” Consider these factors before making a choice: Fescue and Blue Grass are cool-season grasses. Exposure to our severe summer heat and alkaline soil conditions causes them to thin out over time. Periodic re-seeding, usually every 2-3 years, keeps your lawn looking its best. These grasses are clumping varieties and do not spread, therefore, a thin lawn will not f ill in or thicken with aeration or fertilization. While Blue Grass makes a beautiful lawn, it is much more sensitive to our summer heat than Fescue and takes much more work to keep it looking good. If you decide to try it, limit use to eastern and northern exposures. Fescue and blue grass can usually be kept green year-round with a proper fertilization program. Bermuda is a warm season grass. It thrives in our summer heat but goes completely dormant in winter, resulting in a uniform brown color. Bermuda is a creeping grass that effectively repairs itself in thin areas and small to medium bare spots. It’s a favorite of pet owners for that reason. It also takes much more heavy foot traffic than Fescue or Blue Grass varieties. Most Bermuda seed is of the common variety. Hybrid bermudas are denser, lower-growing varieties, very few varieties produce any viable seed. Overseeding with annual (winter) Ryegrass or Perennial Rye keeps a Bermuda lawn green in winter. Perennial Ryegrass is used to over-seed Bermuda lawns and golf courses for rich green color during the winter. It can also provide a quick spruce up in fall and winter for homes with Fescue lawns. It has finer blades and is more heat tolerant than annual (winter) ryegrass, but eventually succumbs to our severe summer heat. Research is ongoing to develop varieties that can be grown here year-round. Annual (Winter) Ryegrass is used to over-seed Bermuda lawns for quick, inexpensive green color in winter. It has thicker blades than the perennial varieties and uses more water but provides good results. It dies in the heat of late spring when Bermuda emerges from dormancy.
RE-SEEDING/OVER-SEEDING YOUR EXISTING FESCUE LAWN. Fall (mid-September & October) is the best time for over-seeding though mid-spring is also a good time. Before applying any seed, remove thatch buildup with a hand or power rake and aerate the entire lawn. If not removed periodically (about every 2 years) thatch buildup will restrict the movement of water and fertilizer to grass roots. This causes in the very same problems you are trying to avoid–thin grass, bare spots and an overall “tired” appearance. You can rent a power rake or aerator from a commercial equipment rental agency or get a changeable power rake attachment or foot-aerator from your favorite Star Nursery location. When re-seeding a Fescue lawn, use the following checklist: • Mow the lawn (about 1½ inches is a good height). • De-thatch (power or hand rake) and aerate. Though this process is best when done during late spring, thatch should be removed prior to over-seeding for optimum germination. • Broadcast Dr. Q’s® Sod & Seed Starter (6-10-10) fertilizer per bag instructions. • Broadcast seed at the rate of 1 pound per 100 square feet. Many kinds of Fescue seed are available. We recommend Emerald Carpet™, a dwarf Fescue variety that is finer-bladed, slower growing, more water efficient and needs less mowing than most other Fescues. • Cover the lawn with steer manure or Top Dressing at the rate of 125 square feet per bag. • Water 3 minutes, 4 times per day, until grass is established. (6 am, 10 am, 1 pm & 5 pm) • Follow the Southern Nevada Water Authority Lawn Watering Guide for best results when lawn is established. HANDY TIP. Bermuda uses less water than Fescue lawns. Follow the Lawn Care Watering Guide for starters, but experiment by skipping one time per day or more in that schedule. You’ll probably find that once a day for 8 minutes will be quite sufficient during the growing season.
the Infamous Red Wagon
When Star Nursery opened its doors in 1983, finding an affordable and readily available cart for customers to shop with was quite the task. What could we use that would be a practical fit for the rugged nursery environment and not break the bank? Enter the Radio Flyer. At the time, the infamous red wagons were considerably revered for their ability to transport various objects, children and pets. So, we decided to give them a shot at being our main shopping cart. There was no way that we could have foreseen those little red wagons being a continued part of the Star Nursery experience nearly 4 decades later. No longer are these simple coaches just a cost-effective means for customers to shop our stores but a tradition that generations have come to enjoy. Over the course of 38 years, we have had the pleasure of watching generations of customers grow from children that once rode in a Radio Flyer to the parent who is now pulling their own child around the nursery. Though those little red wagons are no longer the most practical or inexpensive option out there, but they remain a treasured part of the Star Nursery culture. At the start of this year, we asked our social media community to share with us some of their photos depicting our beloved buggies and their favorite ways to use them for a chance to win one of their very own. This resulted in a curation of wonderful moments from various members of our Las Vegas community. Congratulations to the winners and thank you to all who participated. We hope you enjoy these images as much as we have, here at Star Nursery.
Annual Spring Celebration & FREE Gift Our annual tomato plant and ladybug giveaway events have quickly become favorites for everyone. Unfortunately, last year, the pandemic didn’t permit public events that would bring out the large gardening community. Nevertheless, spring 2021 is here and we are so excited to safely welcome everyone into the stores and back into your gardens.
March 5th – 7th FREE Early Girl Tomato Plant Early Girl tomatoes are aptly named because they are an early ripening, 54 days to harvest, *indeterminate variety. They are a medium size, flavorful red fruit, good for slicing or salads. Give afternoon shade, rich well-draining soil and regular water. Protect young plants from late frost with Hot Caps. Use Bonide Tomato & Blossom Set Spray to help hold flowers on and increase yield. Support vines with stakes or tomato cages to keep the fruit off the ground and avoid pests and diseases. Use mulch to cool the soil and keep moisture in during the summer. *Indeterminate growth means the plant will produce flowers and fruit until the plant is killed by either frost or other means.
March 26th – 28th FREE Ladybug Packet There’s always lots of talk about ladybugs, and here’s your chance to add one of the hardest working beneficial beetles to your garden. The proper way to release these mighty workers is to wait until evening, when their activity level is low. Simply open the package under a rosebush or plant known to be susceptible to aphids and voila. By morning they will be hard at work. If after a few days, you don’t see ladybugs in your garden, don’t worry, after the March 26th - 28th giveaway, millions of ladybugs will be at work throughout the community. You might not see them because they have already done their job in your garden and have moved on. Ladybugs are only present in gardens that have aphids and other plant-eating insects. Once they devour all the insects, as many as 5 dozen per day, they move on to the next plant. So, not seeing a ladybug in the garden is a good sign that you are not struggling with an aphid or other plant-eating insect infestation.
Star Nursery and all our employees would like to thank you for your continued support and efforts during the upcoming events. Please follow all CDC guidelines to ensure everyone’s safety. *Strict safety restrictions and guidelines will be followed. Social distancing and masks are required. Free gift with any purchase. While supplies last.
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Malaysian Pottery High gloss glaze with consistent color and a smooth finish. Versatile for both indoor and outdoor use.
Tacate Mexican Clay Pottery A staple in the southwest. Standard kiln process, available in a multitude of southwest colors to create a rustic and casual environment.
German Pottery Our newest addition, like traditional Italian clay pottery, German pottery is a higher quality pot kilned with a sealer which allows the pottery to have a better color and withstand our hard water.
Exciting, versatile and contemporary pottery collections have arrived at all locations. Here’s your personal guided tour of pottery from around the world. Vietnamese Pottery Very thick walled, high gloss glaze with a brilliant pop of color. Perfect long-life outdoor pot.
Chinese Pottery - Thicker high gloss clay pot. Known for its distinctive ring sound when tapped and traditional subtle colors.
Plastic Indoor and Outdoor Light and versatile pottery made in Ohio, USA. Endless color options, sizes and uses. Ideal for houseplants and indoor herb gardening.
Indoor Ceramic Smaller versatile pottery, practical for houseplants, herbs, succulent and cacti. Our indoor ceramics are from all three regions, Malaysia, China and Vietnam. These are sure to compliment any interior design style.
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Herbs Are for Growing … and Using!
Part of the joy of growing herbs is that they smell so wonderful. Herbs are easy to grow in the desert and most are heat tolerant. If you want proof of that, come visit the Clark County Extension Botanical Gardens. Master Gardeners will be happy to take you on a guided tour and show you around. It’s the best kept secret in town. We want to change that, so bring friends! While herbs are a wonderful asset to any garden, the true value of these plants comes from using them. And there are so many options for doing that. The first thought for most of us is to eat them. Let’s use fennel as an example. Would you say fennel is a vegetable, herb or spice? Ever eaten the bulb of a fennel with onion sliced thin and sautéed in extra virgin olive oil? Yum! Would you call that a vegetable dish? I would. To finish off the dish, you might chop some of the frilly fennel fronds (say that fast 5 times) and sprinkle them on top for color, texture and flavor. Those delicate fronds seem like herbs, don’t they? They are. They make a great addition to salads, too. And if you let the flowers go to seed, you can eat the delicious licorice flavored seeds right off the plant … or use it as a spice. So you were right, fennel is a vegetable, an herb AND a spice! It is also a darn good looking plant in your garden. As an added bonus, fennel happens to be a habitat plant for swallowtail butterflies. This plant can grow enormously tall so give it plenty of room to spread out. If you let it go to seed, you will likely find baby fennel plants in places you might least expect. Fennel will grow in the suns direction (yep, even in Las Vegas) and will also grow in part shade. Just cut it back in the winter for a spring surprise. It’s spring, so you are probably looking for some color to add to your garden. Do not forget that herbs can provide gorgeous color! Have you ever grown Monarda? When this plant blooms, it is an absolute show stopper! Monarda is in the mint family so prepare for the spread. You might know it as bee balm, bergamot or even oswego tea (a favorite of the Oswego tribe and adopted by American colonists during their boycott of British tea.) The flowers range in color - purple, pink, lavender, red and more.
Another favorite is echinacea, otherwise known as coneflower. They are drought tolerant and will provide pretty color and texture to your garden from summer to fall. Birds love the seeds, so I leave the flower heads on the plant during early winter. Echinacea purpurea (it is purple-ish) is the most common type and it comes back year after year! There are other varieties and colors at Star, too. Gotta love this perennial! It likes full sun. Be sure to do a search for the uses of echinacea. If you are not already familiar, you will be blown away by the benefits of this plant. I can talk to you about growing the plants but not about their uses as medicine. So that research must be on you! Don’t forget chamomile! It’s tiny daisy-like flowers are so pretty in combination with big, bold flowers. Roman chamomile is a perennial that grows back from the root. German chamomile is an annual but it self-sows and if you plant it one time, you will probably find babies popping up out of nowhere. Last year babies showed up between my pink rocks in the backyard! I transplanted them into pots and they were fabulous! Chamomile makes the best tea … ever! And it is great in combination with other herbs. It was happy in a container. One of my favorite things about spring is making short trips to Star to see what herbs just came off the trucks. So, I’ll see you there! Master Gardener Glenda University of Nevada Extension For more gardening information call the University of Nevada Extension Master Gardener help line at: 702-257-5556
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Silver/Golden Knights:
In 2017, the Golden Knights were established in Las Vegas, Nevada. This “Vegas Born” team would become one of the largest franchises in the National Hockey League (NHL). At the time, the city was excited to have our first professional sports team in the valley. Little did we know the love our community would have for the team and all its players. The Golden Knights were brought to Las Vegas during a time when it felt like our community needed hope after the horrific events that occurred on October 1, 2017, now known across the nation as “1 October.” Since then, the Las Vegas community has grown stronger and more united than ever before. With something more meaningful than winning a championship, we now had something we could call our own, we were proud of and made our community better. After just 3 seasons, this “Vegas Born” team is unstoppable and as loyal fans, we will continue to root for our guys on and off the ice! If we weren’t lucky enough to have the Golden Knights, the franchise has expanded and given us an American Hockey League (AHL) team, the Silver Knights. Established in 2020, this team is set up for success. The Silver Knights will feed into the Golden Knights and prepare players for the NHL. Now you can find 2 practice facilities that both teams will share: the Lifeguard Arena in Henderson, is the Silver Knights main practice facility and team headquarters and the City National Arena, located in northwest Las Vegas, will continue to be team headquarters and practice facility of the Vegas Golden Knights. Both facilities are open to the public and equipped with 2 ice rinks, perfect for a quaint ice-skating session or a fun practice game of ice hockey. During your time at either facility, grab a snack at the restaurant upstairs or buy some gear to support both Knights teams!
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Frank is Star Nursery’s IT manager and is coming up on 20 years since he first started working with the company. He is responsible for maintaining and repairing the Point-of-Sale system, email and other software. When Frank isn’t putting out technical fires, he enjoys woodworking and spending time with his wife and their 5 children. Frank was first drawn to the company as a young 16-year-old wanting to put a little cash in his pockets. He was under the impression that it would be an easy job simply watering plants all day. Instead, he was hired as a carryout and said, “Thank god for that because when I finally was tasked with watering plants all day, I found that I absolutely hate watering. It takes a certain person to stand alone all day with a water wand in their hand, slowly watering each plant.” He has since worked as a cashier, driver, sales person, general manager and nearly everything in between in his near 2 decades with Star Nursery. Frank’s favorite part about working at Star Nursery has always been the comradery with many of his coworkers. It’s comfortable and he has known many of his coworkers for 15 years or more. His future goal for Star Nursery is to build a self-sustaining IT department for the company. Frank’s advice for prospective employees is that there is a great deal of growth opportunity at Star Nursery and that “you can go as far as your willing to go.”
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David has been working with Star Nursery for 17 years and is currently the Merchandise Manager. He was drawn to Star Nursery because it was just a small plant nursery in Las Vegas and has since grown into a family. He describes the company as unique, creative and rewarding. David’s favorite part of working with the company is teaching and sharing his knowledge with both employees and customers. The most challenging aspect is the changing of the seasons, as the company goes through great lengths to change out and prepare product for the next season. If David could trade jobs with anyone in the company, it would be Shawn, our VP of Purchasing, so that he may have the opportunity to talk with our vendors and bring new products to the stores. When asked how Star Nursery has helped him in his career development, he responded, “They provided me with the all the resources, I need to learn, grow, and expand my skills while using my strengths and abilities to move within the company.” His advice to prospective employees is “to work hard, learn as much as you can and make the most of all opportunities that come your way.” David’s favorite quote is “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing”, by Walt Disney. It is evident in David’s hard work and dedication that he applies the wise words of Walt to his job every day and we are so happy to have him be a part of the Star Nursery family.
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Jamie is the new Floor Supervisor at our Mesquite location and has been with the company for nearly a year. Since beginning her employment, she has learned a new career which she “thoroughly enjoys.” Jamie describes Star Nursery as being helpful, efficient and reliable. Her favorite part of working for Star Nursery are her coworkers, “I love these people, they are warm and funny, hard workers and I think we are a great team.” When asked who she would switch with, given the opportunity, she wouldn’t trade places with anyone because as the Floor Supervisor, she gets to do a little bit of everything. Like many employees, Jamie finds the weather to be the most challenging aspect of working at Star Nursery. Her favorite quote is “Take the high road, the view is better.” Speaking of views, that is the very thing that drew her to working at Star Nursery. Jamie thoroughly enjoys being outside with the plants, trees and flowers. She says that Doug Northington, the manager of the Mesquite store, is a knowledgeable and patient teacher, which makes it a great place to work. Jamie’s advice to future employees is that “if you put forth the effort, you’ll be rewarded!” Her hope for the next 5 years is to still be breathing. Considering all that took place in 2020, we think that is a fair goal. We are so happy to have Jamie as a member of the Star Nursery family.
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STORE SPOTLIGHT Boulder Highway & Tropicana 5340 S. Boulder Highway Las Vegas, NV 89122
The Boulder Highway store is where it all began. Star Nursery became a Garden Center at this store and paved the way for all future stores. The store was an existing building that Star Nursery’s owner, Craig Keough, took over a few years prior to 1983. Before that, the company was known as Southwest Landscape Supply but the name was changed and Star Nursery was born. During the 80’s, there was a housing boom that was happening on the east side. Sunrise Mountain and Green Valley were some of the biggest growth areas in town. What is special about this store are the customers, an equal blend of contractors and homeowners. We have 3-4 generations shopping at this store now. Many of the same landscapers that have been doing business at this store for decades. In the last 5 years, the store is seeing a new construction revival. With all of the growth happening in the southeast, our Boulder Highway store is seeing new millennial shoppers looking to landscape their new homes. Old Vegas meets new Vegas, especially as communities in Cadence, Tuscany and Lake Las Vegas continue to develop. The Boulder Highway store used to have an upstairs office area that housed our corporate headquarters. It was able to fit about 8 corporate employees. The property also used to have a 7-11 adjacent to it, on the corner across from Denny’s. When it became available in ’88, Craig took it over and absorbed it into the nursery. The empty 7-11 building became our first warehouse/distribution center that we shipped product out of. The houseplant building that is still on the property today was named the 3-11 because it’s smaller, being half the size of that old 7-11. The employees still call it the 3-11 to this day and most don’t even know why. This is a quaint, easy to shop nursery. Small enough to get in and out quickly. And big enough to carry just about everything our larger stores have. This is the store that both of Star Nursery’s current Vice Presidents’ started at in the 80’s. It was crucial in the 80’s and 90’s for everyone to learn the company’s culture at this store. In the opinion of Shawn Watt, our VP of purchasing, Boulder Highway is the store that made Star what it is today.
HOW DO WE DO IT? Regardless of what you are building, you cannot create the best from industrial waste products. We start with high quality, wholesome, pure ingredients. The process we use to produce Thrive Feed can only create results we demand by using the very best raw ingredients we can procure. Our fundamental requirement is, “always use high quality raw ingredients.” It goes without saying that any byproducts, ground roughage products, generic groups of ingredients, and human food production waste products like beet pulp are not on my ingredient list. Essentially, what goes into Thrive Feed you would be happy to eat yourself.
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Star Nursery is the only distributor of these products and you can find them at most of our locations.
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