Re: Starting a nursery

A wonderful idea.  My favorite nursery has little garden areas around
the  place and it's a nice effect.

On 8/18/05, Cathy Carpenter <cathy.c@insightbb.com> wrote:
> Since most of us respond to visuals, why not make your nursery not
> just rows of plants in pots, but a garden where people can actually
> see (at least some) of those plants in a landscape or in containers?
> Folks may walk in with a mental picture culled from a magazine (a
> picture taken in a location that no way shares your growing
> conditions), but what they then see growing around your nursery will
> banish the former from their minds.
> 
> Cathy, west central IL, z5b
> 
> On Aug 17, 2005, at 6:04 PM, Christopher P. Lindsey wrote:
> >
> > I agree 100%.
> >
> > I was talking with Donna via email last night about what the current
> > trends are.  I think shade gardens used to be the in thing, but
> > they're
> > now slightly passe and there's a lot more focus on sun plants with
> > bright
> > bold colors.
> >
> > Although I'm mostly a shade gardener, I think I need to focus on more
> > unusual stuff and plants that can cross over from sun to shade. Sedges
> > seem like they're still growing in popularity, for example.
> >
> > One thing about all of the hot new plants -- almost all of them have
> > restricted propagation rights and corresponding insane prices.  For
> > that reason people are falling to the old stand-bys on certain plants.
> > Granted, Endless Summer [TM] fills a need that no other Hydrangea
> > could
> > fill before, so its ubiquity is probably a good thing.
> >
> > I subscribe to Chicagoland Gardening, but I haven't looked at more
> > general
> > Midwestern magazines.
> >
> > Chris
> >
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX
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