Re: Starting a nursery/Magazine

Andrea- consider Chicagoland Gardening Magazine. It is
closer to home than midwest living, unless of course
you are also looking for the decorating/recipes part
too... chicagoland doesn't have that... all plants!

Might want to pick up a couple issues locally first...

Donna

--- "hodgesaa@earthlink.net" <hodgesaa@earthlink.net>
wrote:

> I checked on it as I'll be moving there and there IS
> a Mid-West living
> magazine. 
> Southern Living magazine is THE FIRST one people buy
> here and carries the
> newest varieties of plants which sends people in
> droves to their nearest
> nursery. 
> 
> Time for a subscription to mid-west living I'd say.
> ;-)
> A
> 
> Andrea H
> Beaufort, SC
> 
> 
> > [Original Message]
> > From: Christopher P. Lindsey <lindsey@mallorn.com>
> > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > Date: 8/17/2005 7:04:59 PM
> > Subject: Re: [CHAT] Starting a nursery
> >
> > > The first year I did my nursery everyone wanted
> Verbena 'Homestead
> Purple.'
> > > So, on the advice of one of my retail nursery
> owners I ordered a bunch
> of
> > > plugs the next spring. I could barely give it
> away. I know people see
> > > things in Southern Living Magazine (here
> especially) and fly out to the
> > > nurseries to get it. By the next year they're
> looking for something else
> > > popular. 
> > > 
> > > So, my advice would be to start keeping up with
> what's named most
> popular,
> > > or best plant of the year, etc. Because next
> spring people will be
> looking
> > > for it if it's been mentioned in a magazine. 
> >
> > 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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