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As the season starts to wind down, the nursery greenhouse work seems to never end. Repairs and maintenance go on to be sure that the equipment and infrastructure are ready to hold up to the mayhem of another not-to-distant spring. Inside the greenhouse, soon shipments of poinsettias will make way for more room for production […]

With the onset of warm days and more importantly warm nights, the planting of vegetable and flowers seems to be in full swing. Even tropical plants that like plenty of sun and hot days will be planted outdoors in the ground and in pots for outdoors. This weekend will finish up the late blooming lilac […]

Acer japonicum ‘Acontifolium’, Full Moon Maple Acer palmatum ‘Madame Butterfly’, Japanese Maple Acer palmatum ‘Emerald Lace’, Japanese Maple Acer palmatum ‘Orange Dream’, Japanese Maple Acer palmatum ‘Pixie’, Japanese Maple Acer palmatum ‘Shishigashira’, Lion’s Head Japanese Maple Acer palmatum dissectum ‘Crimson Queen’, Laceleaf Maple Acer palmatum dissectum ‘Inabe Shidare’, Laceleaf Maple Acer palmatum dissectum ‘Red Select’, […]

Now that the new year has begun and the old is behind us, now comes the arduous job of filing the end of the year tax reports for payroll including those for the federal, state and local governments. If that were not enough the budgeting process will begin for the next fiscal year which begins […]

Poinsettia, the Christmas plant, is popular in many American homes. With the introduction of long-lasting cultivars, the popularity of the poinsettia has increased significantly. It was introduced to the United States in 1825 by Joel Robert Poinsett, first U. S. ambassador to Mexico who obtained plants from the wilds of southern Mexico. The common name […]

As the holiday season fast approaches, the closing up for winter on the tree and shrub side is nearly done as the last of the stock has been put away and the overwintering houses have received their batten strips which are strong plastic lengths of poly ethylene tubing that help to secure the white poly […]

Back by popular demand is another tour of the nursery facility and adjacent Wolf Creek Gardens this Saturday at 11 a.m. Subjects included will be the tour of the garden pointing out interesting native and non native plants along with specific plantings and blending of those plantings in a natural setting similar to English gardens […]

With the first week of June coming up, the work at the nursery entails weed control, planting of our pots along the driveway, inserting petunias on the trough of the Owl barn and still the planting of perennials that will become available in the spring of 2020.        The annuals in 8 inch […]

The mum season is all but over and now replaced by the arduous task of putting more stock away for winter and taking inventory of that stock. We have begun removing plants from the perennial house that fortunately has already been inventoried. The clean up of the ebb and flow benches is as usually for […]

With the time changing from daylight savings time to Eastern Standard time, the nursery hours have changed so that now on the weekdays we are only open to 5:30 p.m. Next week we will finally be covering the overwintering houses after some freezing temperatures in order to place the plants more into dormancy. Especially important […]

Well another load of arborvitae and Green Giant Western red cedars arrived on Tuesday and they are already selling so fast to necessitate another order to come in about 3 weeks. Unfortunately, the plants come from Oregon with hot and dry weather so that shipping will be more expensive as the plants must have a […]

Things keep ramping up at the nursery as a mega amount of transplanting has been going on in the greenhouse of finished plants and of cuttings that have been rooted.  The perennial department as well has received many small plants which are called plugs and lily bulbs which have been recently potted. Now a somewhat […]

As far as the weather is concerned, it looks as though this fall will be known from going from summer approaching winter. The abrupt change in temperature with some frosty nights is putting to “bed” plants is a process known as hardening off in which moisture and nitrogen levels will decline making the recipe for […]

The Blueberry Fest went well except for the high temperatures coupled with high humidity. The re-potting of shrubs made it possible for the majority of the workers at the nursery to remain out of the hot sun while others had to brave the hot sun to supervise outdoor events. The cool weather of late Sunday […]