Blog – Twixwood Nursery

The purpose of this blog is reassurance. We do not care about the specifics, only that everyone ends up reassured by the end of it. We have had a full production crew working since early January making liners of perennials, grasses, and carexes. Another full crew has been making Vinca minor 105 plugs and since […]

Nursery Management

Posted on January 22, 2021October 25, 2024 by Tom Kimmel

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 […]

Wall Street Journal

Posted on January 7, 2021July 19, 2024 by Tom Kimmel

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 […]

Cool Weather

Posted on November 9, 2020July 19, 2024 by Tom Kimmel

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 […]