The last week of March is when massive amounts of bare root trees and shrubs are received from a variety of sources such as Oregon, Lake County, Ohio and Michigan. The plants are bare root in order that they may be shipped at low cost and then are potted into our… 
This week is considered “hell week” at the nursery as semi truck loads of product have been received that must be unloaded, counted, tagged and then put away very quickly as sometimes two loads arrive at once and there is no time to rest or otherwise pause in the… 
As the temperatures finally warm up and sunshine returns, the stock of plants overwintered are thirsty for water as well as for spring. Water is probably one of the most important elements of the nursery business and huge amounts of it are needed during the growing… 
Saturday is the last of our series of winter seminars and still one of the most popular for revealing all the new “stuff” for 2019 in herbaceous perennials, annual flowers, trees and shrubs. It is amazing that so much “new” becomes available every year as in the “old… 
With the first day of March, the store will finally open after two months of closure and barely three weeks remain until the first day of spring. Most of the bare root roses have arrived to be sorted, cut back and then potted into three gallon nursery containers so…