The greenhouses are fully stocked at Candyapple Nursery and Landscaping offering virtually everything needed to craft the perfect outdoor oasis for your home

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Candyapple carries a wide variety of popular trees, including maple, blue spruce, fruit and arborvitae. (Photography: Felicia Vargo)

By Patricia Nugent

Truckloads of plant materials have been delivered over the past several weeks and things are full blooming over at Candyapple Nursery and Landscaping, one of the largest nurseries in Medina County.

Situated just two miles south of the Square, the fully stocked nursery takes pride in putting together a unique offering of Ohio-grown stock you won’t find at your typical garden center or big box store.

Making sure the high-quality stock is properly acclimated to this climate and conditions in Zone 5 makes a big difference in how it thrives. The buyers at Candyapple are in tune with today’s homeowners, who prefer low maintenance and deer-resistant options.

Professional Design Services

Candyapple has earned a reputation for offering high-end fiberglass pools, in a variety of shapes and all the bells and whistles imaginable to fit every lifestyle, from cascading multilevel configurations and built-in benches, to splash zones and walk-in entry.

Looking for inspiration to bring your outdoor dream space to the next level? This is where Candyapple shines. Just bring a photo of your home or landscape you love, and the creative designers can help you come up with a complementary or similar design to fit or match it.

They know how to ask all the right questions to get in sync with your tastes and needs. With more than 70 years of design under their collective belt, they can create a just-right fit for your family with everything from new flower beds to the installation of paver patios (including natural stone, Unilock and Oberfields), retaining walls, ponds and water features, hot tubs, firepits, fireplaces, outdoor lighting, outdoor kitchens, built-in grills, wine coolers, gazebos, custom-built pavilions, pergolas and fencing to keep your paradise private.

When it comes to plant materials, the orchestration of bloom cycles allows them to spread the vibrant colors within a design from spring to summer and fall.

Whether it’s landscaping or hardscaping, the folks at Candyapple have been introducing themselves to all the new homeowners in Medina County, with special bundled pricing packages for designing new landscapes as well as year-round services.

Situated just two miles south of the Square, the fully stocked Candyapple Nursery and Landscaping takes pride in putting together a unique offering of Ohio-grown stock you won’t find at your typical garden center or big box store.

They do everything needed to maintain your backyard paradise, including spring clean-up services and laying mulch. Go ahead and put your feet up. They can make sure everything looks pristine now that the lawns have greened up. Treating your yard to edging, irrigation systems, mowing and springtime fertilizing will encourage healthy growth all summer long.

Candyapple has also earned a reputation for offering high-end fiberglass pools, in a variety of shapes and all the bells and whistles imaginable to fit every lifestyle, from cascading multilevel configurations and built-in benches, to splash zones and walk-in entry. Though their installation schedule is mostly full for this year, now is an excellent time to sit down with the pool professionals to plan for 2024. This also allows you to lock into current pricing.

You’ll discover a bountiful variety of vegetables, including tomato plants, peppers, fruit trees and shrubs and herbs at Candyapple Nursery.

Nurturing your Green Thumb

Gardening as a hobby has skyrocketed the past year or two. Folks like knowing where their food comes from. Plus, it’s an activity that’s beneficial to your physical and mental well-being.

If this is a first time for you, or you’ve had a garden in the past and are ready to take things up a notch—no worries—the experts at Candyapple can guide you through that.

You’ll discover a bountiful variety of vegetables, including tomato plants, peppers, fruit trees and shrubs and herbs. Since they’ve been lovingly cultivated in the greenhouse, they should flourish.

Make Mom’s Day

For the gift that will delight Mom on Sunday, May 14, and beyond, don’t miss Candyapple’s Mother’s Day basket sale. You’ll find an explosion of colors and flowers represented in the right-priced hanging baskets.

Or if you want to give her a thoughtful flower or plant she’ll love season after season, the nursery also offers ones with special meanings, from rose bushes and hydrangeas to lilies and tulips.

In addition to giftable blooms, this month is when they see DIY homeowners who need to replace a tree, bush or shrub that might not have made it through winter. Since these can be cumbersome to transport home, delivery is available. Come in, pick out your stock, and it’ll be delivered right to your door.

Open to the public, the nursery is loaded with gorgeous trees, shrubs, flowers (annuals and perennials) and plant materials ready for you to plant, or the seasoned landscapers to help with.

They carry a wide variety of popular trees, including maple, blue spruce, fruit and arborvitae. Watch for top-grafted shrubs that are also popular now, such as lilacs, hydrangeas, cherry and pea shrubs.

This year, springtime in Northeast Ohio has been slightly warmer and wetter than average, and with the hard frosts hopefully behind us, now’s a great time to start planting.

Candyapple Nursery is open seven days a week.

Candyapple Nursery & Landscaping is headquartered at 1075 South Court Street in Medina, and the nursery is just down the street at 6156 Wooster Pike in Medina. For more information, call 330-591-7009 or visit CandyappleLandscaping.com.