2019 Winter Leaflet Our sales staff has just completed the annual fall tour of our larger customers handing out Michigan apples and, we think, lots of hugs. I do not go on these tours any more as I am not much for hugging and, besides, these days I am not filtering what I say very […]
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The popular Twixwood Newsletter, Leaflet, by Tom Kimmel.
Download: 2018 Fall Leaflet-web The purpose of this issue of the Leaflet is to act organized and to make money, or, more precisely, to make money by being organized. I notice that the really successful nurseries are in the specialty liner business; that the medium successful nurseries are in the commodity plant production business; and […]
Read More...Download PDF The purpose of this missive is to sell plants. We are assuming that anyone receiving this newsletter is busy working and thus does not have the time to read long and rambling messages; besides, our Twixwood social media personage, Cassandra, has me writing a weekly blog. I have received sparse instructions on how […]
Read More...2018 Spring Leaflet I may have been too subtle in the past and so I will remind people that the purpose of this publication is to make money for the nursery. Sometimes we have to admit to the occasional error in judgement, something difficult to do when you are as sensitive as I am I […]
Read More...Download PDF If it makes anyone feel better there were, this spring and summer and fall, three attempts at writing a Twixwood newsletter and it is true that time appears to pass faster when one gets older. Besides such diversions as planting six acres of perennials and shrubs in the field and attending weekly manager’s […]
Read More...This newsletter started out being the Late Fall and then it became the Early Winter and it is now the Mid-Winter Leaflet. This would not be a problem except that the purpose of these Leaflets is to try to convince our customers that we are well-organized, hard-working, and on top of things here at Twixwood. […]
Read More...The purpose of this newsletter is to list our available one gallon containers. The following four pages of columns might give this intent away already. We do not want it to be a surprise. The alert reader may come to several conclusions after glancing at this list: one being that we have a lot of […]
Read More...In inventory, looking good, and ready to ship are hundreds of flats of 3” Silveredge Pachysandra, 24 plugs to a tray. The term ‘looking good’ is not completely accurate as variegated pachysandra is never a good looking plant. That is because all variegated plants are, first of all, in poor taste and second of all […]
Read More...I usually begin my Facebook postings with the statement “We are still married” accompanied with a photo of Dianne and me standing out in the middle of the daylily field while it is in full bloom. That way there is proof that we are still married and that we are still in the nursery business. […]
Read More...Rudbeckia newmannii ‘Summer Blaze’ is a new plant. We were told at one time that this was superior to the regular Rudbeckia fulgida ‘Goldsturm’ and we have long-since forgotten why. I work on the theory that is a plant is a named variety that is asexually propagated and not sexually propagated that it has to […]
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