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Gold Flame Spirea, Growing, Selling and Propagating this Awesome Plant.

Published : December 2, 2015

14 Comments

Gold Flame Spirea

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.

Updated : December 1, 2015

7 Comments

Anthony Waterer Spirea.

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…

Growing, Selling and Propagating Tango Weigela

Updated : April 18, 2020

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Tango Weigela.

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…

Growing, Selling and Propagating Variegated Liriope Liners and Plugs.

Published : November 8, 2015

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Variegated Liriope

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…

Growing, Selling and Rooting ‘Alleghany’ Viburnum

Updated : October 29, 2015

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Alleghany Viburnum

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…

How to Grow Japanese Red Maple Trees from Seed

Updated : September 27, 2019

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Sowing Japanese maple seeds in a black nursery container.

Japanese Red Maple Trees are actually quite easy to grow from seed.  In this article, I will give you step by step instructions for doing so. A Step by Step Guide to Growing Japanese Maples from Seed. But first, we need to chat about what kind of Japanese maple can and cannot be grown from… Click here to read more…

Annabelle Hydrangea Propagation, How to Root Cuttings

Updated : April 18, 2020

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Annabelle Hydrangea, hardwood cutting.

  Looking for a plant to grow and sell that is crazy popular, super easy to grow and sells like hotcakes?  Annabelle Hydrangea is that plant.  People love Annabelle Hydrangea because of the great big snowball type blooms. The Hydrangea that never fails to bloom. Annabelle never fails to bloom because unlike many other hydrangeas,… Click here to read more…

How to Make Your Own Awesome Potting Soil.

Updated : October 17, 2015

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Mike's Dagwood Sandwich Potting Soil Ingredients System.

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…

Variegated Weigela, an Excellent Plant to Grow and Sell from Home.

Updated : January 17, 2021

35 Comments

Variegated Weigela

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…

How To Prune An Overgrown Japanese Maple Tree

Updated : April 4, 2021

196 Comments

Overgrown Japanese Maple

My oldest son, Duston, had this beautiful Japanese Maple Tree in the front of his house. It was there when he moved in. The previous owner really planted it too close to the house. If they would’ve kept a close eye on it and pruned it when necessary, it probably would’ve been fine. But it… Click here to read more…

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