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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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

One would think, would they not, that anyone in the groundcover business would be chary of bringing up the delicate subject of weeds.  I may regret it by the end of this blog, but for now it seems like the right thing to do.  It all started with the May/June 2020 edition of “Horticulture” Magazine, […]