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What??? Why would anybody want to do that or need to know that? Legitimate question for sure. The reason that I decided that this was a post worthy of putting on my blog is because when I mentioned In Our Members Area that I purchased 400 one gallon Lilacs for my sale last spring at… Click here to read more…
Not only am I going to review this book, but I’m going to give it away! Read on for details. First a bit about the authors. I don’t know Pamela Bennett but I love her career path. While in college studying to become a teacher she landed a summer job in a garden center in… Click here to read more…
We are giving away this gardening gift basket! We are doing this in conjunction with the nice people at Mantis.com. You know them right? They make all kinds of really cool gardening related tools but the one that I am most passionate about is the Mantis Tiller. You’ve seen me use it many times, it’s… Click here to read more…
Abbotswood Potentilla is awesome plant! It’s easy to grow, easy to care for, super easy to propagate and it really easy to keep it looking nice in a landscape. Abbottswood, like most Potentilla is a prolific bloomer. It starts blooming in June and blooms all summer long right on into fall. Hardy in zones 3… Click here to read more…
Gold Flame Spirea, Spiraea x bumalda ‘Goldflame’ is extremely colorful and eye catching. It’s easy to grow, easy to propagate and sells like wild fire! I’ve got a few of them planted around the nursery and as soon as people see them they ask about them. This is a plant that we can’t seem to… Click here to read more…
One of Our Members asked me to show everybody exactly how I go about winterizing my sprinklers and irrigation lines in the nursery. All of my irrigation lines are PVC and PVC is very unforgiving if it freezes with water in the lines. Black plastic well pipe, on the other hand, does give a little… Click here to read more…
Weigela florida ‘Tango’ Hardy in zones 4 through 8. I think Tango Weigela is an awesome plant and it’s a crazy hot seller for me. It is one of the more compact weigelas and has redish, purple dark leaves with flowers that are red to deep red. This is one of those plants that I… Click here to read more…
Crazy right? Getting paid to sell sticks? It’s true, in Our Members Area sticks are a hot, hot, hot commodity in November, December and January. Some members sell thousands and thousands of them. The look like sticks, but they are really valuable, Unrooted Hardwood Cuttings. One of the easiest ways to propagate plants is during… Click here to read more…
Liriope muscari ‘Variegata’, also known as Variegated Lilly Turf. Variegated Liriope is an awesome landscape and I tell you why. It’s colorful, it flowers, it’s attractive and it’s super easy to care. I’ve used this plant in landscape plants for years and 20 years later it still looks good. It never gets too big, it… Click here to read more…
Viburnum x rhytidophylloides ‘Alleghany’ Doesn’t matter if you are looking for a plant to grow and sell or if you are a home owner looking for a different kind of plant for your landscape, the Alleghany Viburnum is an interest and awesome plant. These are just a few of the highlights of the plant. Loaded… Click here to read more…
That’s a fair question and I am going to attempt to address it as thoroughly as I know how. There are so many options, places and ways to sell plants both large and small it’s a big mind boggling, but let’s give it a whirl. This is the list that comes to mind right off… Click here to read more…
Potting Soil has to be the most confusing thing ever! Really it is. You look around on the Internet and you find recipe after recipe after recipe for potting soil. And they vary a lot and for the most part they are very different. The worst thing about all this variation? Very few of these… Click here to read more…
Hydrangea macrophylla ‘All Summer Beauty’ All I can say is Wow! This is a spectacular plant! This is a plant that I’ve been trying to get my hands on for sometime now, not readily available in local markets and not all that available on the wholesale market. In my opinion, this is a plant that… Click here to read more…
Variegated Weigela, Weigela florida ‘Variegata’, is a staple in my nursery and has been for years. The ultra attractive variegated leaves are plenty eye catching, but as soon as one of these plants makes a flower in the spring it flies out the door! Seriously. Sometimes it’s frustrating because it’s nice to have some in… Click here to read more…
Mike’s Plant Farm 4850 North Ridge Road, Perry, Ohio 44081 2,463 plants must be sold this weekend, only $5.97 each while they last! Here we go! This is Whack-a-Doodle Crazy selling plants at such a low price but we’ve got plants everywhere and I do mean everywhere! I have to reduce the number of plants… Click here to read more…
Mike’s Plant Farm 4850 North Ridge Road, Perry, Ohio 44081 2,463 plants must be sold this weekend, only $5.97 each while they last! Here we go! This is Whack-a-Doodle Crazy selling plants at such a low price but we’ve got plants everywhere and I do mean everywhere! I have to reduce the number of plants… Click here to read more…
If you are starting your backyard nursery in August, there are a number of things you should be concentrating on. In the next 8 to 12 weeks there will be some deals on rooted cuttings and liners on the Backyard Growers Business Center Buy/Sell board. If you buy them now and just plant them in… Click here to read more…
I’ve been growing the perennial Tricolor Sedum for a couple years now. This plant makes a great border plant. It has green and white variegated leaves and a delicate pink flower that blooms in the summer. The white edges on the fleshy leaves can take on a pink-bluish color in cooler weather. It will grow… Click here to read more…
Almost all people who want to start their own Backyard Nursery start out with liners they purchase from other growers. Every day in the Backyard Growers Business Center, folks are buying and selling all sizes of plants; unrooted cuttings, rooted cuttings, liners, stock plants and even seeds! Liners will typically range in size from a… Click here to read more…
‘Green Giant’ Arborvitae, Thuja ‘Green Giant’ In the past few years Green Giant Arborviate has become a bit of an Internet sensation of the plant world. Often touted to grow as much as 36″ per year, being billed as the perfect plant for an instant evergreen hedge. Sounds wonderful right? Not to me. Admittedly… Click here to read more…
