Crazy right? Gardening in the dead of winter, even if you live in a cold, northern state? It’s not crazy and there are actually things work better now than they do during the growing season. What if I told you that you could make hundreds of “Free Plants”, right now, in January? Trust me, if… Click here to read more…
Proper Nursery Plant Tagging.
Even Fergus knows how important proper plant tagging is. Lately we’ve been sticking thousands of hardwood cuttings right along the Donkey Fence and let’s face it, right now they all look like sticks so making sure they are properly tagged is extremely important. There are a couple of things you need to know about tagging… Click here to read more…
The Art of Stacking Plants in a Truck.
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…
Book Review-Garden-pedia by Pamela Bennett and Maria Zampini.
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…
Abbotswood Potentilla, Growing, Propagating and Selling them.
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, Growing, Selling and Propagating this Awesome Plant.
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…
Pruning plants in the nursery before winter.
Many of the flowering shrubs that we grow are vigorous growers and we want them to look fantastic when it’s time to sell them. The only way that can happen is if we keep them pruned so they look good. When I’m doing the pruning things get cut back really hard. I mean really hard! … Click here to read more…
How to Winterize Sprinklers, Irrigation Lines.
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…
Unrooted Hardwood Cuttings for Sale.
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…
Growing, Selling and Propagating Variegated Liriope Liners and Plugs.
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…
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