Our annual greenhouse is finally open for your inspection.
This year we’ve added a new line of tropicals, bouganvilla that can be aggravating to sell as the flowers drop and some leaves in their transit from Florida; however we received the plants early enough so that they could regenerate some of their buds and foliage as well as having time to quarantine all of the tropicals to make sure there are no bugs from Florida to contaminate our other greenhouse product or your plants at home.
Our thousands of azaleas are just starting to pop out into color along with my favorite fragrant Viburnum called ‘Cayuga’ that blooms just before the May 10th, fragrant blooming French Lilacs.
This is the best time to get an idea for a Mom’s Day gift as everything is or getting ready to burst into bloom.
Some of my favorite easy to grow evergreen azaleas are ‘Herbert’ (dark double purple), ‘Boudoir’ (watermelon pink), ‘Snowball’ (bright white), ‘Karen’ (bright purple) and ‘Girard’s Crimson’ ( rosy-red).
Our registered trade name that I chose for azaleas years ago is "Bloom and Grow" since we propagate and grow all the plants at the nursery. I got the idea from the song Edelweiss, written by Rogers and Hammerstein in which the lyrics portray the flower as one that may "bloom & grow". This part of the lyrics fits very well with the types of the plants we grow (azalea, rhododendron, mountain laurel and blueberries) as that’s just what they do: they bloom and then grow.
Soon our garden club members should be receiving our spring newsletter and some valuable coupons by mail. You can still join the club at anytime but we will require your e-mail address as we want to periodically e-mail you information and coupons you can use as all of us know it’s so much less expensive to do an e-mail than snail-mail!
Come on and take a look around but reserve plenty of time for the 14 acres as you’ll see something different and exciting around every corner.
Tom
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