About Our Plants:
Plants
Houseplants
We carry a variety of plants to suit your interior plantscaping design. Bring foliage succulents with beautiful greenery or long bloomers with bright flowers into your home! Many of our pots fit comfortably on a window sill or desk and can be potted into larger containers for dish gardens or hanging baskets. Our selections are suited for home or office conditions given the right light and water requirements. Think you don’t have a green thumb? A good rule of thumb is to water “deeply and infrequently” and applies especially so for indoor containers. Surrounding ourselves with plants is proven to improve health and well-being.
Trees and Shrubs
We grow one of the largest selections of trees and shrubs in the North Carolina Triad area. Our plants are well suited for this region. We will also consult you on the planting and caring of your trees and shrubs.
Mitchell’s can help you design a custom landscape plan to suit you and your house. Just make an appointment and bring by measurements of the outside of your house, including window height and width; pictures help.
Fall, winter, and early spring is the best time to plant trees and shrubs. The roots get a chance to grow out before it gets too hot and dry in the summer, which is less stressful on the plant.
Vegetables and Herbs
We have a large selection of vegetable plants. We have cold hardy spring and fall vegetables including broccoli, collards, cabbage, leaf lettuce (red and green), Swiss chard, mesclun mix, Buttercrunch lettuce, Romaine lettuce, Great Lakes head lettuce, spinach, kohlrabi, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower and kale ready for sell in March-April and September-October. Our summer vegetables will include pickling cucumbers, slicing cucumbers, burpless cucumbers, straightneck squash, crookneck squash, zucchini, red, yellow, and green bell peppers, hot and sweet banana peppers, cayenne peppers, jalapeño peppers, over 15 varieties of tomatoes including heirloom, okra, egg plant, 5 varieties of watermelon, and 3 varieties of cantaloupe. They will be ready around the first week of April and continue with fresh plants through June.
We also have herbs including basil, oregano, cilantro, flat & curly parsley, peppermint, spearmint, dill, sage, rosemary, lemon & regular thyme, lavender, sweet marjoram, garlic & regular chives, lemon grass, catnip, and chamomile.
Native Plants and Trees
Mitchell’s is growing many native trees, shrubs, and perennials. Click the link below to see a list of some of the ones they grow. Not all are available at all times. Call for availability.
Spring Flowers
Don’t forget about us this spring when you get ready to spruce up your yard. We carry clean Longleaf Pine needles.We grow hundreds of different types of flowering annuals and perennials that do great in this area.
We are growing over 70 varieties of bedding
plants in 4-packs (32 to a tray), from Ageratum to Zinnias and everything in between. Many of these are also available in trays of 18.
We also grow annuals and specialty plants in flats of 18’s such as calibrachoa, ornamental sweet potato, lantanas, bacopa, Lobularia, and verbenas. These are great in beds, hanging baskets, or containers.
Fall and Winter Flowers
We keep plenty of beautiful pansies all winter by growing over 100,000 Pansies and Violas in the fall with 49 varieties. Pansies are grown in flats of 36, 18, and 6” pots. Flowering kale is grown in 6.5” pots. We are growing 1700 mums in 8” and 12″ mum pots.
There is no sales tax on our flowers since we are a farm and grow them ourselves.
Poinsettias
Mitchell’s Nursery and Greenhouse grows over 12,000 Poinsettias in 92 different varieties. We are growing over 12,000 poinsettias in 92 different varieties in 2021. No other place around sells the variety, quantity, and quality that we grow. We sell to churches (give quantity discount), garden centers, florists, businesses, and the public. We custom wrap and put a hand-tied bow on the poinsettia of your choice. Poinsettia sizes range from 4″ to 10″. The 6.5″ is the most popular. Delivery is available for 15 or more.
We are the only commercial greenhouses in the Triad area to hold poinsettia trials. The information gathered each year helps the national poinsettia breeders decide which poinsettias they will release to the market next year.
Poinsettia Fundraisers are a great way to raise money for your club, church, or organization! This year we are also selling to non-profits for fundraisers. Click the PDF links below for more information. If you decide to have your own Poinsettia Fundraiser you can click the link for the Mitchell’s Grown Poinsettia Sales Flyer to show to people buying poinsettias. Or, you can make your own flyer.
Easter
Easter is arriving on Sunday, April 12, 2020. We will be busy all winter growing plants for the spring. We stock a large selection of potted plants blooming for Easter. There are hundreds of flowering azaleas, flowering hanging baskets, ferns, mums and lilies. We are growing over 15,000 beautiful geraniums. Our quality and selection is superb. Our geraniums are well branched and compact with various shades of red, pink,
salmon, violet, and white. Sizes range from 4″ pots to 10″ pots. We also have hanging baskets with three plants in each. Our first crop starts selling around March 14th and we will constantly have fresh geraniums. We have large crops that are scheduled to be ready for Easter and Mother’s Day. We will also be growing hundreds of azaleas into bloom for Easter to be wrapped. The azaleas are the same hardy varieties that we grow for your landscape. We will have potted mums that we are growing to be wrapped for Easter. Easter Lilies will also be available. We will take orders for Easter lilies to wrap for churches. Delivery is available for large quantities.
