PAYNE’S NURSERY HAS THE INDOOR PLANTS THAT WILL HELP YOU DO JUST THAT!
At Payne’s Nursery, we believe that indoor plants are more than just decorative accents—they are a vital part of creating a vibrant and healthy living space.
Our selection of indoor plants are perfect to elevate your surroundings with lush greenery and timeless beauty. Whether you’re looking to bring life to your home, office, or any indoor environment, our plants will enhance the atmosphere with their natural charm and elegance.
But it’s not just about aesthetics. Many of our indoor plants are known for their remarkable ability to purify the air, reducing toxins and improving the overall quality of the air you breathe.
Stop by Payne’s NORTH today and let us help you transform your indoor space into a sanctuary of beauty and wellness!
It’s the time of year to dig in to seed-starting, and, as always, gardeners seem to fall into two different camps when it comes to seed-starting equipment. Some take a purely “DO IT YOURSELF” approach, swearing by homemade setups that involve yogurt cups, shop lights, and old ironing boards. Others are more methodical and will use nothing less than highly sophisticated grow lights, heating cables, and special propagation units purchased from catalogs or garden centers.
Regardless of which camp you are in, here are the items that you need to get started:
Containers such as Flats and Domes
A Good Seed Starting Mix (Payne’s has many recommended mixes)
Heat
Light
Stop by our NORTH location and ask our gardening experts how to get started!
NOW is the best time to start planning your garden.
Our 2025 seeds are here and our seed racks are stocked and ready – with plenty of varieties to choose from. Brands like: Botanical Interests, Lake Valley Organics, Peppers of the World and more!
If you’re not sure about which variety to choose, our gardening experts will help you decide!
As we step into 2025, the garden is transforming into more than just a backyard—it’s a space for resilience, creativity, and connection. This year’s trends bring inspiring solutions for modern challenges, from climate-adaptable plantings and foraging gardens to vibrant pops of teal and community-focused spaces. Whether you’re reimagining your garden with natural materials, creating a wellness retreat, or diving into the art of container-scaping, these ideas will inspire you to cultivate beauty, sustainability, and joy.
Let’s dig into the trends that are set to redefine outdoor living in the year ahead!
1. Wellness Spaces: Designing for Relaxation and Respite
Photo courtesy: Collecting Flowers
Wellness gardens are emerging as tranquil retreats, designed to nurture relaxation and calm within the landscape. The team at Collecting Flowers explains, “When thinking about a space for wellness, we first consider how you’ll move through the space by allowing the garden to guide you, creating a destination accessible by way of lush greenery and soft groundcover underfoot.”
Privacy and serenity are central to these designs. Nooks framed by plants like Pittosporum ‘Silver Sheen’, Acacia iteaphylla, or Grevillea provide seclusion while maintaining an open, airy feel. Elevation changes—whether a recessed spa or an elevated nook—add intrigue and intimacy. Thoughtful details like deep cedar or Monterey cypress steps that double as seating blur the lines between lounging and movement. Groundcovers such as wooly thyme or Dymondia enhance the experience, offering soft, durable paths that invite bare feet and enhance a sunny spot for relaxing. With these touches, your garden becomes a true oasis for unwinding and recharging.
2. Container-Scaping: A Trend That Brings Bold Style to Your Garden
Photo courtesy: Michael Clifford
Container-scaping is transforming patios and outdoor spaces with bold planters and architectural plantings, offering both drama and personality. Celebrity landscape designer Stephen Block of Inner Gardens likens containers to “jewelry” for the garden, emphasizing fewer, larger planters to create striking focal points. Vintage-inspired pots with patinas or textured finishes add timeless charm, while bold plants like Brachychiton rupestris or Cussonia spicata provide sculptural intrigue. Whether outdoors or on tabletops indoors, container-scaping thrives on wabi-sabi principles—embracing imperfect, aged materials to tell a story while blending beauty and functionality.
3. Teal: The Color Trend Making Waves in the Garden
Photo courtesy: the Sunset Plant Collection
Teal is having a moment in garden design, bridging fantasy and reality with its serene Caribbean blues, expansive sky tones, and the immersive depth of virtual worlds. This bold, synthetic hue aligns with wellness trends, offering a calming yet sophisticated effect. Teal’s versatility shines in both statement pieces and subtle accents, pairing beautifully with shades of blue, green, brown, orange, and gold.
4. Living Fences: The Vibrant Alternative to Traditional Boundaries
Photo courtesy: Christina Chung
Say goodbye to stark walls and rigid fences and hello to lush, multifunctional living fences. According to biologist Christina Chung of Fluent Garden, shrubs are the ultimate garden multitaskers—offering privacy, buffering noise, and providing seasonal interest with flowers, fruit, and foliage. “Try an evergreen hedgerow of sea buckthorns, strawberry tree, and rosemary for a dry, sunny spot,” she advises, “or plant currant, gooseberries, hardy fuchsia, and serviceberries for fruit and flowers in shadier areas.”
Living fences also serve as a haven for wildlife, attracting pollinators and providing shelter for birds. To create a natural, layered look, Chung recommends taking cues from nature: “Walk in nature and notice how shrubs knit into the landscape when allowed to spread.” For a personalized touch, experiment with mixing heights, shapes, and textures.
Whether you’re planting a low edible hedge of blueberries and salal or crafting a tall evergreen screen, a living fence can transform your garden into a vibrant, connected space that feels alive and purposeful.
In this week’s archived show from previous years, the Garden Guru chatted about the need to re-pot plants now that it’s still winter! The question is when does one know that a plant needs to be re-potted. Lynn said that this is not so easily answered it depends on a few things.
Just looking at the plant, you can just look and see if there’s too much plant for the pot, that may be a consideration… the other tell-tale sign would be if you have to water your plant more often than usual. If it’s a small pot, it just won’t handle large volumes of water. If this happens… well listen to the Garden Guru’s tip to find out what to do! PLUS… see what Lynn has to say about starting to fertilize your plants since it is so unseasonably warm out!
Payne’s Organic Soil Yard has a variety of soil, mulch, compost, Duramulch, and more. Stop by and see Sam and ask him what is the best product for your current needs.
Buy in bulk! We’ll deliver for a small fee or bring your truck and we’ll load it for you!
Payne’s Organic Soil Yard 6037 Agua Fria 505-424-0336
