Events
Mark your calendars for fun all during the year!
2010 Events:
March 6 - All Stores
Growing your own food can be rewarding and fun. Attend our free Spring Vegetable and Herb Clinic at 10:15 am. Visit with vegetable and herb garden experts. Sign up for Chef Jeff Vegetable and Blue Label Herb give-away drawings. Learn how to win Garden Gift Cards by participating in upcoming vegetable contests, and get the scoop on how to exchange herb recipes with other growers.
Simply Beautiful Flowers for the Landscape
March 13 - All Stores
Come in to get plant combination ideas to make your landscape Simply Beautiful. We’ll show you how to select larger more developed plant options to create a unique and interesting presentation in your garden. Attend the free Simply Beautiful clinic at every store at 10:15 am. Enjoy full displays of combinations of complementary plants all day.
March 20 - All Stores
Geraniums have been around a very long time, but this variety is the ‘Maverick’ of Geraniums. Tested and trialed in the Texas area, this plant is a wonderful accent to containers and makes a statement in the landscape. Learn about the breeding, testing and development of this Texas-favorite Geranium and why you want to be a ‘Maverick’ when it comes to selecting these plants.
April 3 - At Select Stores
Get free plants and visit with local Texas gardeners. Long-time gardeners instinctively like to share. And new gardeners love to soak in the advice and guidance of experienced gardeners. That’s why Calloway’s Nursery and Cornelius Nursery is excited to sponsor the Perennial Swap at several of their garden centers! Bring extra plants and trade for what you’d like and need. The event is free and open to the public. Get details and start your FREE plant shopping list by clicking here.
Saturday, April 3, 2010: 9 am to 11 am
Locations: Fort Worth/Stonegate, Plano/Preston Road, Houston/Voss Road
April 17 - At All Stores
Join us at the O2 Planting for the Future Station for a free Organics clinic at 10:15 am. You’ll learn sustainable and earth-friendly gardening approaches. Bring the kids along too. They will learn how to reuse and recycle at the tin-can planting station where they will make a free craft and choose a plant to up their new creation. Later be sure to stop by the organics section of our garden centers to talk to a gardening expert about organic solutions for your garden.
Surf’s Up - It’s a Wave Festival!
April 17 - All Stores
Wave Petunias are a popular plant. Planted in the landscape they provide abundant growth and flowering. Visit our stores all day on April 17 to see the widest variety of colors available in the area. This one-day only event will feature the best display of the season. There will be drawings for prizes at all stores. You won’t want to miss it!
June, July and August- All Stores at 9:30 am on 1st and 3rd Wednesdays
Exclusively for kids, enjoy a summer adventure into the garden with the family. Visit any of our garden centers the first or third Wednesday in June, July, and August at 9:30. Kids will plant, color, learn and explore plants and nature with one of our garden experts. Mark your calendars and visit us online for exciting details.
Fall Harvest
Oct. 2, 2010 - All Stores, All Day
Tradition and fun merge at our Fall Harvest Celebration! Activities for children include free pumpkin decorating, children’s shows, kid’s activities and much more. For adults, free clinics and paid workshops will be available. Mark your calendar for this annual event!
Nov. 6 - Houston Market Only
Stores Open All Day
Come visit Cornelius Nursery stores to check out our decor, Christmas themes, and displays. Get inspired for the Christmas season!
Garden Design Classes and Consultations:
Texas Garden Design Class and Consultations
Receive Texas gardening and design advice from garden experts at Calloway’s and Cornelius Nursery garden centers in one-on-one design consultations and small design classes.
These exclusive events are for Garden Club members. Join the Garden Club today and register for these upcoming classes and consultations.
Consultations: Are no longer available. Please check back for future opportunities.
Calloway’s and Cornelius experts make garden design fun and easy. Learn more!
I was so excited when I visited your store on Voss. I am a Science Educator and have a passion for plants . Since I was a kid it has been a love that I shared with my grandmother. The first plant that my grandmother bought me was a bird of paradise plant. I was 5 years old. I went on to work in nurseries in Louisiana putting myself through college. I loved working in the conservatory on Jefferson Island, Louisiana . So many years later the passion is still within me. The bird of paradise plant has been divided and shared with family and friends and it is the one plant on my highrise balcony that weathered the hard freeze weeks ago. I love your nursery and all the sales people who make me feel like family.. and that in itself gives me great joy.
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admin Reply:
February 25th, 2010 at 4:42 pm
Thank you for taking the time to share your experience with us. We strive to hire enthusiastic caring employees who will help educate gardeners.
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I read in Calloway’s Annual Guide , that April 3rd is “Perennial Swap Day” at selected stores. I would very much like the Hulen Street Store to participate so that I can swap out some begonia’s, narissis, and pothos ivy, all that have just been potted and ready to swap out for something you have to swap.
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Melyssa, Calloway's Marketing Manager Reply:
March 15th, 2010 at 12:26 pm
Hello Dee,
The Hulen St. location will be participating. Please learn more about the April 3, 2010 Perennial Swap here: http://mytexasgarden.com/?page_id=208
We look forward to seeing you there.
Your Friends at Calloway’s and Cornelius Nursery
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2 weeks ago, pesticide was used to treat fire ants on 4 spots (mounds) in our 12′ x 14′ garden. Can we go ahead with tilling & planting? Should something else be done first? thank you, for any suggestions
Beth D.
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PlantMaster Reply:
March 29th, 2010 at 4:09 pm
Beth, you should be OK, but just realize that you’ve probably only encouraged them to move somewhere else. And that by treating these mounds there is no guarantee that they won’t just make more mounds elsewhere in your garden.
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The Dairy Ashford Store is such a joy to visit. This store has been there for the longest time and my late Mother used to love shopping at this Cornelius location. I go there and revisit my Mom’s favorite plants. THANK YOU for keeping this store heritage Cornelius!
I’m building a special garden in my Mom’s memory and you are a big part of that!
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When is the next perennial swap?
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admin Reply:
July 1st, 2010 at 12:06 pm
Hi Karen, We have not scheduled the swap for 2011, but we will announce it to our Garden Club, so be sure you are signed up to receive our emails here https://mytexasgarden.com/signup.aspx.
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