This time of the year I have the opportunity to go through all of the many nursery magazines and other periodicals that we subscribe to, including Nursery Management published out of Valley View, Ohio, and specifically the December 2020 issue. We are reminded, in that publication, that Calamintha nepeta subsp. nepeta is the 2021 Perennial […]
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When I am not spending my time worrying about which new plants to grow, how to sell the ones we have too many of, how to make more of the ones that the customers want but never told us they were going to want making us guess wildly which involves gambling with my retirement funds […]
Read More...As you may imagine, several things happen when the weather turns cool. Cool weather plants begin to thrive again, as they did in the early spring and as they did not during the heat of August. Galium odoratum, Sweet Woodruff, Bed Straw, is one of them. This plant is different than the traditional groundcovers in […]
Read More...Two things happen to the wholesale perennial grower this time of the year. First of all the plants are getting over-grown, or flowered out, or a little bit dormant. They have arrived at the tail end of a long hard growing season. Second of all, the wholesale nursery owner has one last chance here in […]
Read More...This is the time of year that the native grasses look their best and I am referring to the Big and Little Bluestems. We have in production three of Intrinsic’s patented Andropopgon gerardii varieties—‘Black Hawks’ PPAF, ‘Indian Warrior’ PP#24,999, ‘Red October’ PP#26,283. Except that we will not have ‘Black Hawks’ liners until early next summer, […]
Read More...And I should say mostly Sporobolus heterolepis liners and specifically S. ‘Tara’ liners of which we have 20,000 2 ½” pots all ready to go and maybe not too root bound. I am too busy writing these things to go out and look. That is 700 flats of the 32 count SVDs. I remember a […]
Read More...The purpose of today’s Blog is to give the impression, or illusion, whichever you prefer, that we are a big-time organization although I realize that the customer is less interested in our personal problems than in their own and if we are out of a product that they need it does not matter our size […]
Read More...And so today I went out on a limb and asked the sales personages what I should push in my next blog. Things did not get off to a good start because, by way of introduction, I just said that I was going to write another blog. I did not think that “good grief” and […]
Read More...Todays blog is about money and not about foisting some odds and ends that are not selling upon the unsuspecting public and the reason is that I suspect that we are running out of unsuspecting. We are out here in the middle of rural Michigan and thus far from the sources of scuttlebutt and information. […]
Read More...Sales patterns have been strange this year which makes our faith in the computer to do prognostications for us to wane. To start with we are already sold out of quite a few items. I inquired to the computer keeper and I am told that it is the small volume items that we are sold […]
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