Thanksgiving, the holiday that President Lincoln proclaimed should be celebrated on the last Thursday in November, is upon us.
At the nursery, we’re still collecting branches for our different styles of grave blankets and tomorrow we bring up our poinsettias we’ve been growing in our rear greenhouse as they are now showing lots of color. The variety Polar bear is a gorgeous pure white that benefits polar bear preservation when this variety is purchased.
Live wreaths, white pine roping and greens will be ready on Saturday afternoon as well as all styles of our grave decorations.
Other things going on at the nursery are a general clean up, propagation of geraniums for our spring crop and the finishing of construction of our new greenhouse for the production of perennials.
In Wolf Creek Gardens we’ve planted more Hemlock, White Pine and Dogwood varieties in order to enhance this ever expanding botanical garden display. Another chore I’m tiring of is having to erect a 6 foot windbreak on the west side of the rhododendron-azalea portion of the garden. The Norway Spruce screen that was planted 4 years ago should be big enough to do the job in another 2-3 years so that the windbreak job will be no more!
Next week our cut Christmas trees come in from southern Ohio of which the varieties will include Fraser Fir, Scotch Pine, White Pine and Douglas Fir. I’m impressed especially with the Fraser Fir as Frasers do not like to grow too far out of their native range which is the Appalachian Mountains at elevations of 2200 ft. and up! In fact, our Frasers from southern Ohio are superior to the normal North Carolina Frasers as they are so much fresher!
Tom
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