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Lavender 'Phenomenal'® has earned its place as the benchmark for modern lavender production, and it's easy to see why growers around the world now consider it the gold standard. Dependable in the field, greenhouse, and home garden alike, the Phenomenal Family of Lavender® delivers the performance and consistency growers can count on, and the beauty that keeps customers asking for it by name!
If you've ever walked out to the garden and found fresh shoots chewed to the ground, you know how frustrating deer can be. As herds grow and feeding habits shift, more growers and homeowners are searching for plants that can hold their own.
Since the company's inception, we have been very conscious of the risk of runoff from our farm winding up in the waterways we cherish.
It's Always Been Plants
At Peace Tree Farm, It has always been about plants. Candy Traven never had a dog growing up; instead she had a begonia immense. Imbued with the magic of plants from a young age by her grandmother, one of Candy's first memories is of light filtering through the begonia's beautifully fuzzy and textured leaves. Candy gave Lloyd Traven a potted coleus plant shortly after meeting in college. Lloyd called Candy frantically saying the plant had wilted, Candy suggested he water it and at that point, Lloyd too discovered the magic of plants. From then on, it was always plants together. Candy and Lloyd knew they wanted to have a greenhouse one day but little did they know that greenhouse would go on to grow more than just plants, it would foster a thriving business of over 40 years and a life of passion and purpose.
The Philadelphia Flower show is the oldest and largest indoor flower show in the world. This incredible show has happened every year since its start in 1829 when it introduced the poinsettia to the Western market. The Philadelphia Flower Show has a long history of horticultural prowess and is renowned the world around. It is the only major show that has anything of the scale of the Horticourt, where the public is allowed to exhibit and show their personal plants for competition and prizes.
Brian D. Sparks sat down with Lloyd, Candy, and Alex Traven to discuss how they set a path for the future. Peace Tree Farm is always looking towards and planning for the future whether it be successional transition planning, identifying new products, or applying new and innovative technologies into their operations.
Lavender Sensational!® was developed by Peace Tree Farm LLC as part of the Phenomenal Family of LavendersTM. Sensational!® boasts incredibly large, dense flowers with saturated color and sturdy stems, perfect for home gardens as well as landscapes and lavender farming. Its broad, silver foliage is thick, tough, and cupped, and its habit is upright with incredible branching stems. Growers have confirmed that it has extremely good heat and humidity tolerance along with cold tolerance (Zones 5-9). Its flowers have a sweet lavender floral aroma with low camphor!
Lloyd Traven strives to empower the next generation and do business his way at Peace Tree Farm.
Streptocarpus is part of the gesneriaceae family with its cousin, African Violet. Streptocarpus is commonly known as Cape Primrose, it's not actually a primrose but has similar looking deep-green textured foliage.
Now is the time to look inward and outward, to assess what life sustaining skills you have and which ones you want to learn more about. You might not grow a years supply of vegetables for your family overnight but you can build your confidence in vegetable gardening and perhaps learn a great deal about yourself in the process.
Since we at Peace Tree Farm introduced the plant in 2012, Lavender Phenomenal® has become the new gold standard variety in lavender markets across the globe. Growers, retailers, and consumers have discovered there's no other choice when it comes to durability and use.
Thursday is the day that our Biocontrol team crisscrosses our greenhouses to replenish and maintain our army of beneficial insects.
If you're not cooking with fresh, organic herbs, you're doing it wrong!
Inspiring A New Generation With: FREE PLANTS
The Collegiate Plant Initiative (CPI) is all about engaging with and inspiring a whole new generation of plant lovers across college campuses nationwide.
Roundup of Peace Tree Farm Houseplants
The third week in September has been heralded as 'National Indoor Plant Week'.
Did you hear of the record broken at Cultivate '19?
The folks at Peace Tree Farm and the locally inspired cookery of Eclectik Domestic teamed up for the second time this past February to provide a feast to remember at Lloyd and Candy Traven's greenhouse range in Kintnersville, Pennsylvania.
University of Georgia graduate and 2017 Nexus Intern of the year, Gray Simpson, joins Peace Tree Farm as Assistant Grower.
Everywhere you look, it seems like the horticultural industry is covered with….PLASTIC! Take a deeper look into what goes into our choice of materials and learn about our commitment to recycling.
"The Future of Horticulture" is both mind-boggling and exciting and it's going to start a revolution in how we grow. We are going to bolt rapidly into a world of growing that is sensor-driven, and physiologically based upon processes that optimize and maximize plant growth while dramatically minimizing resources and inputs.
There are hundreds of herb varieties, but there is not that much space in your garden center, so we'll focus on the top 10 must-haves. Herbs such as catnip, chamomile, dill, hyssop and rue, to name a few, should all be part of an herb collection, but you don't need to have as many of them.
