As I understand it, I am to write about what I feel each week and even though it was snowing this morning I feel like shipping plants. A day in the nursery business without shipping seems to be a day wasted. Most of our customers are in Chicago—2-3 hours away, or in the greater Detroit […]
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We are busily preparing for Spring here at the nursery. Mostly this consists of going over the cash flow to see if we can make it through the year and how many tractors we can afford to buy and how much gravel we can get to fill the potholes and what to do about […]
Read More...We attend all of the regional nursery conventions and trade shows during the winter. We have a booth and we try to sell things while giving the illusion that we are taking the business seriously and trying. Then, we go around the convention hall and harass all of the other groundcover growers. Sometimes we learn […]
Read More...And so our nursery social media person has informed me that I need to pound out a Blog once a week which I am sure would be lovely if I knew what social media was or what a blog is supposed to do or, better yet, if someone told me who has the time to […]
Read More...This is the second ever nursery blog. We are still trying to figure out what it is and why. We think it has something to do with a lot of words with the words being something that tells a story. The story today has to do with winter production of plants here at the nursery. […]
Read More...Twixwood is now entering the Twenty-first Century, albeit eighteen years late. We are going to have a blog even if we do not know what one of them is. They tell me it is the latest thing and that I am going to be the blog writer because everyone else at the nursery is busy […]
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