Re: todays events > acclimation

Hi Kitty,

You know the old saying: if it works, don't mess with it.  Sounds like you
have your stuff together.

FYI: just got back from my class reunion, in a little town on the edge of
the sandhills called Ord NE.  Had a great time, trying to figure out who was
who.  Guess that's part of the fun of class reunions.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kitty" <kmrsy@comcast.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 7:26 AM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] todays events > acclimation


> > pot them up in quarts and gallons.  A lot will eventually go in the
> ground.
> Being July, many of these little pots are pretty well-packed with roots.
> My philosophy:  I don't like putting something like that directly in the
> ground, so I pot to quarts, grow on a little while until they stretch
their
> roots out and then put in the ground in September.  Also, even though they
> may be full sun plants, going from greenhouse to all day hot sun can be
too
> stressful.  Potting enables them to be moved to shelter if needed and more
> slowly acclimated to such conditions.
>
> This, of course, is extra work, and a small extra expense for potting. Do
> you all think this is necessary or am I over-doing it?
>
> Kitty
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Kitty" <kmrsy@comcast.net>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 9:10 AM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] todays events....
>
>
> > Stonehouse is a wholesaler only.  In fact, at first he said he would
only
> > sell the flats for our nursery - no individual gallons for us.  He knows
> > froom experience that it wastes a lot of time to attend to a customer
> > picking out one here one there and won't do it.  But for some reason he
> > softened and said, if while we were touring the facilities we saw
> something,
> > we could set it aside.
> >
> > We had the backs of  2 vans for plants.  I had also brought along 10
> > stacking produce shells for flats.  If things aren't too tall (the sides
> are
> > about 9 inces high) , they can stack and you can get alot more in.  I
use
> > these in the spring when buying flats of annuals for the gardens.  The
> back
> > of my little SUV will hold a dishwasher - just - so its footprint is
> small.
> > But I can get a dozen flats and several gallons in when I stack.  It's
> much
> > the way bread companies use bread trays.
> >
> > Fernwood has a little plant sale room.  Plants were in all sorts of
pots,
> > many were cuttings or seed propagated, like the tree peony starts.  They
> > might be leftovers from  their annual plant sale or possibly donated
items
> > to help raise a little money.
> >
> > And no, the Stonehouse plants are not these overwintering in my yard.
> Right
> > now they are all in my driveway.  We will schedule a day to get together
> and
> > pot them up in quarts and gallons.  A lot will eventually go in the
> ground.
> > We currently have 7 nursery beds at the display gardens and after the
May
> > and June sales in which we sold almost 500 pots, we have some vacancies.
> > (the sales sell much more than those 500, that number just has to do
with
> > what we grow)
> >
> > Kitty
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Donna" <justme@prairieinet.net>
> > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 6:13 AM
> > Subject: RE: [CHAT] todays events....
> >
> >
> > > So are all of these overwintering in your yard?!?
> > >
> > > Didn't realize Fernwood sold plants. Thought it was more of a display
> > > type place. Most times those type places only have a once/twice a year
> > > sale of cuttings.
> > >
> > > Sounds like you guys REALLY filled the van :) I didn't get nearly as
> > > many plants, of course I didn't buy flats of stuff either. Are they
open
> > > to the public or just groups.
> > >
> > > Hoping the weather hold out, planted a few last night. Hear that it
will
> > > be in the 90's this weekend when I have time off...yuck!
> > >
> > > Donna
> > >
> > >
> > > > So did we!  7 of us (MG Nursery Group) visited Fernwood and
Stonehouse
> > > > today.  One woman bought a couple of plants at Fernwood, but they
> > > really
> > > > didn't have much. The one I liked was Iliamna rivularis, Mountain
> > > > Hollyhock,
> > > > which they told us had been propagated by Russell Stafford.  They
gave
> > > us
> > > > a
> > > > nice tour and it's beautiful place, but Stonehouse is where we laid
> > > out
> > > > the
> > > > big bucks:
> > > >
> > > > 16 Heuchera sanguinea 'Snow Angel', Coral Bells
> > > > 16 Hydrangea paniculat 'Pink Diamond'
> > > > 22 Eupatorium rugosum 'Chocolate', White Snakeroot
> > > > 32 Forsythia koreana 'Kumson', Korean Golden Bells
> > > > 32 Itea virginica 'Henry's Garnet', Virginia Sweetspire
> > > > 32 Phlox paniculata 'Franz Schubert'
> > > > 32 Sambucus racemosa 'Sutherland Gold', European Red Elderberry
> > > > 32 Schizophragma hydrangeoides 'Moonlight', Japanese Hydrangea Vine
> > > > 32 Stokesia laevis 'Mary Gregory', White Stoke's Aster
> > > > 32 Tradescantia 'Sweet Kate', Spiderwort
> > > > 32 Vitex negundo var. heterophylla, Cutleaf Chaste Tree
> > > > 32 Weigela florida 'Argenteo-marginata Variegata'
> > > >
> > > > Those listed above are all 2.5 inch or 3.5 inch pots and will be
grown
> > > on
> > > > for resale.  We were also able to get 16 gallon items for ourselves:
> > > >
> > > > Abelia mosanensis, Fragrant Abelia
> > > > Astilbe chinensis 'Visions', Chinese Astilbe
> > > > Caryopteris 'First Choice', Bluebeard
> > > > Caryopteris 'Snow Fairy', Bluebeard
> > > > Heleborus orientalis, Lenten Rose
> > > > Leptodermis oblonga, Star Flower
> > > > Phlox pan. 'Blue Paradise'
> > > > Salvia lyrata 'Purple Knock-Out', Lyre Leaf Sage
> > > > Stachys monieri 'Hummelo', Betony
> > > >
> > > > There was so much more there we would have liked to have had but
many
> > > > items
> > > > we saw were already spoken for so we had to keep checking the
> > > availability
> > > > list and then deep sighs when we saw this or that prized item wasn't
> > > for
> > > > sale.  We also wanted to pick up a flat of Weigela 'Midnight Wine'
> > > that
> > > > we'd
> > > > ordered last November, but they couldn't release it because they
> > > didn't
> > > > have
> > > > the tags for it.  Something about Proven Winners having bought out
> > > Color
> > > > Choice and the contract for growing requires selling with the proper
> > > tags.
> > > >
> > > > Kitty
> > >
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