Kopacz Nursery & Florist

06/10/2026

🌹✨ MORE BLOOMS START HERE! ✨🌹
The Secret to Beautiful Roses All Season Long

🥀Spent blooms don’t just look tired—they signal the plant to stop producing flowers. A little deadheading keeps your roses looking their best and encourages more blooms throughout the season.

🌹Step 1: Find the Spent Bloom

Follow the stem down from the faded flower.

🌹Step 2: Look at the Leaves

The first leaves below the bloom often have 3 leaflets.

➡️ Don’t stop there.

Continue down the stem until you find a healthy leaf with 5 leaflets.

🌹Step 3: Make the Cut

✂️ Cut about ¼ inch above the first healthy 5-leaflet leaf.

✂️ Make the cut at a 45° angle away from the bud to help prevent water from pooling and causing disease.

Special Situations

🌱 Young Roses
During a rose’s first growing season, you can deadhead just above a healthy 3-leaflet leaf to preserve foliage and encourage establishment.

🌹 Cluster-Flowering Roses
Wait until most flowers in the cluster have faded, then cut the entire stem back to the first healthy 5-leaflet leaf.

🍂 Late Summer
Stop deadheading about 6 weeks before your expected first frost. Allowing rose hips to form helps signal the plant to prepare for winter dormancy.

💧🌿 After Deadheading
Water deeply and consistently.

Feed regularly during the growing season to support new growth and continuous blooms.

We Recommend

🌹 Ferti-lome Rose & Flower Food Plus Systemic (14-12-11)

✔ Feeds roses for strong growth and continuous blooms
✔ Helps promote bigger, more colorful flowers
✔ Provides systemic protection against aphids, whiteflies, leafminers, lace bugs, and other listed insects
✔ Great for hybrid teas, floribundas, grandifloras, climbing roses, and flowering shrubs

Kopacz Tip

A healthy feeding program after deadheading helps roses replace spent blooms faster and keeps flowers coming all season long.

📍 Kopacz Nursery & Florist
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05/25/2026

05/17/2026

🌶️🔥 Pepper season is officially underway! 🔥🌶️

This greenhouse is packed with flavor, heat, and a little danger 🌱😅

🌶️ Sweet & Mild:
California Wonder • Golden California Wonder • Orange Blaze • Purple Beauty • Big Bertha • Sweet Heat • Sweet Banana • Red Beauty • Fooled You • Big Jim • Anaheim • Poblano • Pepperoncini

🔥 Medium to Hot:
Jalapeño • Megatron Jalapeño • Serrano • Hungarian Hot Wax • Garden Salsa • Cayenne • Tabasco • Super Chili • Chili de Árbol • Pot-a-Peño • Thai Hot

☠️ Extreme Heat:
Habanero Orange • Habanero • Caribbean Red Hot • Ghost Pepper • Trinidad Scorpion • Basket of Fire

From mild and smoky to face-melting heat, there’s something growing for everyone! 🌶️ Which one would you grab first?

05/14/2026

Mark your calendars, we'd love to chat!

Join us on Wednesday, May 20 at 1-3 p.m. at Kopacz Nursery & Florist for our quarterly City Chat. Bring your questions, ideas, comments and concerns for an open-ended conversation with city leadership. The topics are up to you.

05/13/2026

Aphids in the Garden: Prevention, Treatment & Control 🌿🐞

Aphids are one of the most common garden pests — and thankfully, one of the most manageable when caught early! It was a warm winter and the aphids are out in full force!
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🔍 What Are Aphids?
Tiny soft-bodied insects that suck sap from plants, and transfer disease from plant to plant, via this process. They cluster on:
* new growth
* buds
* stems
* undersides of leaves
Common colors:
* green
* black
* yellow
* gray
* pink
They reproduce FAST — especially in spring.
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🚨 Signs You Have Aphids
* curled or distorted leaves
* sticky residue (“honeydew”)
* black sooty mold
* ants crawling on plants
* stunted new growth
* visible clusters of insects
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💦 Step 1: Blast Them Off
The first and easiest treatment:
Use a firm spray of water from the hose.
Especially effective on:
* roses
* trees/shrubs
* sturdy perennials
Not recommended for:
* vegetables
* annuals
Repeat every few days.
This alone can solve minor infestations.
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✂️ Step 2: Prune Heavy Areas
If a stem is absolutely covered:
* trim it off
* bag/dispose of it
* don’t compost severe infestations
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🧼 Step 3: Soap Sprays & Treatments
Aphids have soft bodies, so gentle treatments work VERY well.
Options:
* insecticidal soap
* neem oil
* horticultural oil
* spinosad products
IMPORTANT:
* spray in evening or early morning
* avoid hot afternoon sun
* coat undersides of leaves

Repeat every 5–7 days if needed.

⚠️ While spinosad is considered organic-derived, it can still affect pollinators while wet. Avoid spraying open blooms and allow products to fully dry before pollinators return.
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🐞 Step 4: Encourage Beneficial Insects
Nature helps tremendously.
Good bugs:
* ladybugs
* lacewings
* hoverflies
* praying mantis
Avoid overusing harsh insecticides or you kill the helpers too.
A healthy garden ecosystem is one of the BEST long-term defenses against aphids.
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🐜 Step 5: Control Ants
Ants actually “farm” aphids because they feed on the honeydew.
If ants are present:
* control ants too
* use barriers or bait stations nearby
Less ants = fewer protected aphids.
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⚠️ When It Gets Serious
For severe infestations on trees/shrubs:
You may need systemic products.
Common active ingredients:
* imidacloprid
* dinotefuran
Use carefully and ALWAYS follow label directions — especially around pollinators.
Avoid spraying open blooms whenever possible.
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🌿 Prevention Tips
* Don’t overfertilize with high nitrogen
* Avoid overly lush, weak growth
* Increase airflow
* Check new growth weekly in spring
* Healthy plants recover MUCH faster
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💛 Good News
Aphids LOOK dramatic long before they’re truly dangerous.

Most established plants recover beautifully once populations are reduced.

Consistency beats panic every time 🌿

— Well Rooted Garden Consulting
💛 Grow Confidently 541-215-2196

05/09/2026

Hey, hey! Guess what?! We have a pop up collab with Wandering Bean Mobile Coffee tomorrow! Come on down and celebrate our favorite people, Mothers! Bring yours, heck, bring somebody else's! We all love flowers and delicious beverages! Open at 11 on Sundays!!

May Happenings!!
Don't Miss a chance to come see us!

05/08/2026

You're not too late for Mother's Day Baskets and drop ins! We have a large selection to choose from still!

05/03/2026

Mother’s Day is in ONE WEEK friends!