This is the season to plant fruit trees! For more information on how to select, plant and maintain the best fruit trees in North Texas, join us this Saturday at 11 am… no reservation required. See our website Upcoming Classes and Events for details on all of our scheduled gardening classes and mark your calendar so you don’t miss them. 

Download a PDF of our Available Stock List for all the fruit trees, berries and grapes we have in stock including those in the Half Price House… just look in the Edibles Section.

We’re so excited about the incredible plants we received this week and we know you will be too:

• Redbuds (PDF chart link below photo showing varieties-many in half price house)
• Weeping Pussy Willow, Crimson Cascade Weeping Peach, Double Weeping Cherry
• Artie Sun Dogwood & Smoke Trees
• Crape Myrtles-Dynamite, Pink Velour, Red Rocket, Acoma, Zuni, Tightwad, Pocomoke
• Shantung and Autumn Flame Maples
• Drift Roses (red, coral, apricot, pink)
• Knockout Roses (Double red & pink, Sunny Yellow)
• Grandma’s Yellow Rose
• Forsythia, Quince & Rose Creek Abelia
• Lavender Falls Wisteria (staked and on ladder trellis)
• Jet Stream Pampas Grass (same as Ivory Feathers)
• Wichita Blue Juniper (smaller sizes)

Redbud Varieties	Dynamite Crape Myrtle	Lavender Falls Wisteria

Plant now so roots can get established before summer heat returns! Talk with one of our nursery experts about the best plants for your yard or download a PDF of our Available Stock List to see sizes and prices of our trees and shrubs.

We have lots of new spring home and garden décor in the Gift Shop including garden stakes, bird houses, windchimes, table accessories, wall hangings, figurines and more… designed with butterflies, birds, frogs, turtles, dragonflies, flowers and all of Mother Nature’s beauties that we love!  

In our Tropicals Room, you’ll find a fresh batch of new and interesting houseplants to brighten your home-purple shamrock (oxalis), pineapple plants, large Alii and Nitida ficus trees (easier than Benjamina), colorful bromeliads, and by popular request… African Violets. 

It’s not too early to be thinking about Valentine’s Day and we’re sure to have the perfect gifts for you!

It’s time to plant cauliflower, broccoli, cabbage, lettuce, Brussels sprouts, onion, potatoes, and asparagus. Come in for yours today and you’ll be enjoying fresh vegetables right from your own garden before you know it. 

See our Website Planting Advice and Articles Section for helpful planting and harvesting tips for onions, asparagus and potatoes and come to our free Vegetable Gardening class on Saturday, February the 11th to learn more about vegetable gardening in North Texas.

• Cyclamen now only $2.88 (4”) and $5.99 (6”) – perennial if planted in winter sun & summer shade!
• Pansies, panolas, violas, ornamental kale/cabbage- Buy 3 flats; get 1 more free
• 1 gallon Ornamental Cabbage and Kale-$4.88
• Spring Blooming Bulbs-daffodils, paperwhites, iris, prechilled tulip & hyacinth-25% off
• Cone-shaped Rosemary (fragrant & edible)-25% off
• Concrete statues, birdbaths, benches, planters, and select fountains-25% off
• Many items in the Gift Shop 25-50% off
• Huge selection of trees, shrubs and vines on sale for 50% off in our Half Price Houses. Look for the yellow tags for the best deals in town or check out sizes and prices on our Half Price Inventory. 

Is your school, club, sports league, church or other organization looking for a highly profitable, easy to coordinate fundraising opportunity? Covington’s has it! We’re growing spring flowers to give your group a fresh alternative for raising money.

See Covington’s Spring Fundraising Program to learn how you can rake in the profits. Complete our application to get started today or contact Mary at (972) 475-5888 Ext. 111 or mary@covingtonnursery.com for more information.

Want to work for a great team? We are looking for mature people who love their yard and enjoy working with people to join our sales team. Full-time and part-time positions are available. Retirees are welcome!

Apply in person or email your resume to nathan@covingtonnursery.com or greg@covingtonnursery.com. For additional information, contact Nathan or Greg at (972) 475-5888.

Burton specializes in diagnosing and solving plant problems. You may be experiencing these same issues, so we want to share Burton’s advice.

When you come to Covington’s, Burton can usually be found at the Customer Service desk and he’s always happy to help make your gardening experience easier and more enjoyable.

Please bring actual bugs or plants or photos showing the problem when you come to get your gardening problems identified.

Q. Have you heard anything official about how lake levels might affect watering restrictions?

A. I went to the North Texas Municipal Water District's open-meeting on January 26th to hear what they had to say about the state of our water supply, actions they're taking to address our immediate and long-term water needs, and the likely recommendations for drought stage programs. There was some good news, some so-so news, and (thankfully) no devastatingly bad news. There was a LOT of interest in this meeting - a meeting room meant for perhaps forty visitors had us standing room only into the lobby and darn near to the exits. A few major highlights:

1. Stage Four water restrictions are under no circumstances happening before June the 1st, absolute worst-case scenario. The water board will meet regularly to stay on top of the likely water supply based upon the rains, and adjust water restrictions up or down as needed. The atmosphere in the room and all topics discussed made it sound as if it's most likely they'll leave the existing restrictions in place in some form for the foreseeable future. This is MIXED GOOD NEWS - all of us can keep our yards alive and even make landscape beds and trees thrive under modified Stage Two or Three restrictions. It's going to be a year in which new plantings are going to depend heavily upon your hand or drip system watering, not your sprinkler systems, but it's still easily doable.

2. They are still finalizing water purchasing contracts with the City of Dallas for raw water from Ray Hubbard, Tawakoni, and the Trinity Main Division areas, but those contracts as of now don't appear to come with legal snags that could delay their implementation. This doesn't fix all our long-term or even short-term needs but it sure helps. This is GOOD NEWS.

3. NOAA's forecast has the current La Nina breaking sometime between March and May, and if we return to our normal rainfall patterns, Lake Lavon should entirely refill this spring according to the main speaker. This is GOOD NEWS.

Basically, we'll have water to use but we all need to be responsible with it this year, so make sure you're not wasting your water in the least. Click here for some good water conservation tips. (PDF)

Mike, a life-long gardener, studied art at California State University Long Beach and is a licensed Architect in California and Texas with 30 years of experience. This background allows him to see both the technical/practical side as well as the creative aspects of a design.

Mike believes that a well designed landscape is an extension of your home and can enhance not only your home’s value, but your life as well. He’ll suggest plants that thrive in your landscape and give you maximum enjoyment, and since landscape designs often include structural elements, he is perfectly suited to design them and understands how they fit together in harmony with the plantings. 

In October 2011, the Smiley’s contacted Covington's to completely revamp their backyard. They’d just purchased an existing home in Rockwall to be closer to their grandkids, and they wanted their landscape to be very family-oriented. Covington’s had landscaped their previous home in Rowlett... as a matter of fact they told us, “It was the landscaping that sold their home so quickly during a weak economy.” The Smileys asked that their new landscape include low-maintenance plants, a fire pit, seating area, water feature, arbor, and patio extension. They also requested that we do nothing that would block their view of the greenbelt behind their home and that we remove all seventy rose bushes that were growing in their yard. The previous homeowner was known throughout the neighborhood for having the most gorgeous roses; however, the roses just did not fit the Smiley's lifestyle.

Mike Penrose, Covington's Designer/Architect, was sent to fulfill the Smiley’s landscape dreams. He was able to achieve all of their objectives for a beautiful new landscape and outdoor living area that the whole family could enjoy. We even used hardy heat-tolerant plants to attract butterflies and hummingbirds especially for the kids. We also transplanted nine of the old rose bushes to a neighbor’s landscape. 

With spring fast approaching, it’s time to contact Covington's to design your next landscape. If you purchase a landscape installation with at least $250 worth of plants by February 15, 2012, you’ll receive 20% off of our normal planting labor cost and 15% off all regular price plants! Excludes tree plantings.

Before After After

Call us today at (972) 475-5888 Ext. 5 to get started. Check out our Landscape Services for more information about the landscape services Covington’s provides and to view landscape photos on our Designer Galleries.

Click here for a brief video about the beginnings of Covington's Nursery and Landscape Co. and an introduction to our landscape design team.

As you, our regular readers, know, the Webletter we send out weekly is filled with helpful information about planting in North Texas, as well as our latest specials. But if you have a friend who's enthusiastic about having a beautiful yard and seeing the best of the new material as soon as it arrives, recommend our Webletter to them!

They'll see that it's also filled with pictures taken here at the nursery, usually in the same week the article is published, of the newest trees, shrubs, and flowers as they come in. Why settle for generalized pictures of a common shrub when you can see the very plants we have available, right now?

At Covington's Nursery you'll find: 18 acres and 28 greenhouses, 2 ponds, trees, shrubs, vines, ground covers, annual and perennial color, pottery, fountains, and a gift shop. We're open 7 days a week to serve you.

Remember Covington's for a vast selection of quality plants to choose from (18 acres!), and the knowledge & service to help you with your landscaping needs. Email Covington's  --   You can also Share this Page with a Friend.