Broadway Gardens Greenhouses Inc.

11/04/2026

Here are good plants to leave standing through a Maine winter. Their seeds, berries and cover feed and shelter birds like goldfinches, juncos, chickadees, sparrows and cardinals.
Perennials - Coneflower (Echinacea), a goldfinch favorite. Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia) Sunflowers, including perennial types, Goldenrod, New England and other asters, Anise hyssop (Agastache), Bee balm (Monarda), Joe-Pye w**d, Coreopsis, Sedum ‘Autumn Joy’ and similar stonecrops
Annuals such as cosmos and zinnias

Native grasses for seeds and winter cover ,Little bluestem, Switchgrass, Big bluestem, Indian grass
Save spring-blooming shrubs like lilac and forsythia for after they bloom next year.
Berry shrubs (skip fall pruning) Winterberry holly, Viburnums, such as highbush cranberry and arrowwood, Serviceberry, Chokeberry (Aronia), Staghorn sumac, Bayberry, Red-osier dogwood
Nesting material for spring - Milkw**d, whose fluff and fibers birds use. Hollow-stemmed perennials, which also shelter native bees over winter
Tips - Wait until spring, once temperatures stay in the 50s, to cut things back. Leaving 12–18 inch stubs gives stem-nesting bees a place to live.
Leave fallen leaves in your beds. They hold the insects that birds eat.
Do cut back or remove plants with disease, such as mildewed bee balm. Also remove invasives so birds don’t spread their seeds. In Maine, that means Japanese barberry, Oriental bittersweet and autumn olive. Not sure about a plant? Bring a photo in, and we'll help!

10/29/2026

I love these air plants..

10/27/2026

We have all our bird baths and statuary 50% off

10/24/2026

10/24/2026

Celebrate the tradition holiday of Day of the Dead / All Souls Day with potted Marigolds, etc.

10/17/2026

Are you craving some greenery as we transition into the colder fall weather? It’s a great time to come to Broadway Gardens! Our succulents and cactus are all on sale for 20% off. Select air plants are also on sale for 20%-50% off as marked. See you soon and happy planting 🌵

10/17/2026

I love saving a few annuals and bringing them in every winter. Some do better than others. I have always had good luck with the geraniums. Let us know what you overwinter successfully.

10/15/2026

Put the pruners down. Fall is the one time you should leave your rhododendrons and azaleas alone.

October brings the urge to tidy up. You cut back perennials, rake beds, and every shrub starts to look a little overgrown. Rhododendrons and azaleas play by different rules, though. A fall haircut won’t make them neater next year. It will leave them without flowers.
Why fall pruning backfires-
Next spring’s flowers are already on the plant. Rhododendrons and azaleas set their flower buds in summer, a few weeks after they finish blooming. By fall, those buds sit fat and ready at the branch tips, waiting out winter. If you cut the tips now, you cut off next spring’s show.

-Fresh cuts invite tender growth. Pruning can wake up dormant buds and push out soft new shoots. That growth has no time to harden before the first hard freeze, so the cold kills it back and leaves dieback behind.

See for yourself: flower buds vs. leaf buds

Walk out to your shrubs this week and look at the branch tips. The two kinds of buds are easy to tell apart.

Flower buds are plump and rounded, like a small egg or cone. They are noticeably larger than leaf buds, and usually there's one at the very tip of a branch.
Leaf buds are slim, pointed, and small, sometimes barely visible. They grow along the stem and in clusters around the flower bud.
Every plump tip bud you see is a cluster of spring blooms, and that is exactly what the shears would take.
When to prune instead
The best time is right after the flowers fade in spring, within about three to four weeks of bloom. That gives the plant the whole summer to grow and set new buds for the following year.
-Shaping and size control: late spring, just after bloom.
-Deadheading: snap off spent flower clusters on rhododendrons after bloom. Take care not to break the new shoots just below them.
-Hard rejuvenation of an overgrown shrub: late winter or early spring. Spread the work over two to three years, and expect to give up some flowers.
-Dead, diseased, or broken branches

10/14/2026

Fall is in full swing and the lot looks GREAT right now.

Pumpkins, hay bales, corn stalks… everything you need to make your front steps look like a postcard.

we’ve got 20% off out door soil amendments, perennials, shrubs and trees right now (mums not included). The soil’s still warm enough to get rooted in some before the ground freezes, and come spring they just take off.

we just restocked our houseplants.

Swing by Broadway Gardens this week. We’d love to see you

10/14/2026

Come visit us while we process a new houseplant order! We’re happy to offer new tropicals fresh from Florida straight to you. Don’t forget we also repot your plants from here or home for a nominal fee- you just pay for soil! Happy planting 🌿