Creative Decor Ideas Available at Turn Pike Greenhouse
With spring right around the corner, now is the perfect time to start thinking about which plants to feature in the garden and around the home.
Turn Pike Greenhouse in Granton will offer several creative options in addition to all the favorites. Using succulents, a small plant that comes in a wide variety of forms and colors, owners Dusty and Brenda Schlinsog put their creativity to work to create some unique decorative pieces.
One of those pieces is a wall decoration made from a rustic window shutter and a variety of succulents. As the plants grow, they will expand to create a wall of mixed foliage. Another unique decoration is a hanging ball of sphagnum moss planted with succulents. Eventually, the succulents will grow and multiply over the moss.
A featured project of the greenhouse is their yearly fairy gardens. The miniature gardens, made up of accessories, succulents and other plants, are limited in scope only by the ambition and creativity of their designer. They make a fun project for kids, families, and groups. The greenhouse has created several of their own fairy gardens for sale using plants like echeverias, doublet begonia, and more.
Turn Pike will have plenty of individual succulent plants and accessories for those who wish to create their own magical fairy gardens or display the plants by themselves. A special container isn’t needed: “We have found that anything can be used for a planter, from a washtub all the way down to a little bowl,” Dusty said.
With proper care, the fairy garden can last from six months to an entire year. Snipping the plants is especially important for longevity.
Besides succulents, Turn Pike will offer plenty of other plants.
“We’re really excited about the different varieties that we have this year,” Dusty said. That variety includes the typical favorites like geraniums, perennials (including five types of hostas), and many others. The greenhouse has over 600 hanging baskets of flowers and even strawberry plants, which will be ready to pick in June.
Turn Pike is also proud of the large number of bag plants that they will have available. The 
greenhouse has planted seventy bags with flowers like petunias and even green plants. As the flowers flourish, they grow over the bag and cascade to the ground, making them a perfect decoration for walls, garden fences, and posts.
A new item the greenhouse will offer this year is a “flower tower” of morning glories or black-eyed susans. Planted in pots, the flowers as they grow will climb up their cylinder fences for a striking showpiece. “We have no problem filling the greenhouse because we always find something more that we want to do,” Dusty said.
Turn Pike Greenhouse, located at W2760 County Road H, will open Earth Day on April 22. Their hours will be 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday. To contact them, call (715) 238-7111 or send a message through their Facebook page.
