Re: Starting a nursery

Well, if anyone could do it, it would be Chris.  Let's find more work for
him to do with his idle time.

Kitty
neIN, Z5
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Franzman" <dfranzma@pacbell.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 11:58 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Starting a nursery


> That's true Kitty but you could virtually walk in with the right pics.  I
> don't know if that's been done before but I think I like the idea...a lot!
>
> David
> http://www.atouchofthetropics.net
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "kmrsy" <kmrsy@netzero.net>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 8:03 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Starting a nursery
>
>
> > But Cathy, people don't "walk in" to an internet mailorder company.
> >
> > Kitty
> > neIN, Z5
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Cathy Carpenter" <cathy.c@insightbb.com>
> > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 8:41 PM
> > Subject: Re: [CHAT] Starting a nursery
> >
> >
> >> 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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