Pachysandra – Twixwood Nursery

Asiatic Plants

Posted on April 28, 2020October 25, 2024 by Tom Kimmel

In this modern age of natives and nativars and back-to-the-earthers and ideological purists, it is only the brave, or possibly only the foolhardy, who advertise Asiatic Plants. It took only a few minutes of calm reflection for me to realize that our biggest seller and highest profitable plant is something with the common name of […]

Woodland Plants

Posted on April 28, 2020October 25, 2024 by Tom Kimmel

Today we want to introduce everyone to the wonders of Asarum canadense, or Wild Ginger. We have a lot of it, just now coming up, as it was over-wintered outside. It is in both a 2 ½” pot and a 4” pot that used to be 4 ½” pot and before that it was a […]

Pretty Plants

Posted on April 28, 2020October 25, 2024 by Tom Kimmel

There is no quicker way to go broke in the nursery business than to grow only your favorite plants, that is unless you are much better at persuading people than I am. On second thought, one needs to establish credibility before attempting to persuade people of anything. Maybe I should not begin all of my […]

Spring 2020 Blog

Posted on April 17, 2020October 25, 2024 by Tom Kimmel

Twixwood is in business, working, going full bore, shipping, and expressing optimism about the year. We are at full strength with all the workers we can find room for and we are just about right on our production schedule. The production schedule is the result of three days of studying spread sheets looking at sales […]

Twixwood Blog #22

Posted on July 19, 2018July 19, 2024 by Tom Kimmel

Today, this blog is about dissonance and pachysandra and peat pots. They are all related. We begin by quoting noted groundcover, perennial, and green roof grower Dave McKenzie; who is also a noted author because of his 1997 book “Perennial Ground Covers”. Dave says: “People sometimes experience dissonance when confronted with a disharmonious landscape.” And […]

Twixwood Blog #21

Posted on July 3, 2018October 25, 2024 by Tom Kimmel

This week we are doing the hard sell. The sales personages, who do not want to be referred to by their gender, are tired of hearing about my innermost personal feelings. They want me to use my writing skills to sell some plants. Today we are selling some liners that I over-produced last winter. Hemerocallis […]

Twixwood Blog #16

Posted on May 30, 2018October 25, 2024 by Tom Kimmel

And so today we are going to discuss strange customers. We have hopes that lessons can be learned and profited from while doing all of this. We keep hoping that the customers are worrying always about our profitability. Recently we received an inquiry, that I immediately confused with a firm order, for three semi-loads of […]