This is the second (2nd) availability of 2010. It is also the first guess post for Parks Wholesale Plants. Jason is out for a few days with a broken leg, so you are stuck with the Parks internet marketing consultant for today. Get well soon Jason – we need your writing skills!
Click March 5th availability to see the goodness that is available for you and your customers.
We are expecting high 60’s today with lots of sun and I am looking for an excuse to work outside. We don’t have wireless and I don’t have a 100 ft network cable in my bag, so I’m probably stuck inside for most of the day.
Hope you all have a great weekend. Joe
Let’s face it. Succulents are just plain cool. They look like alien flora from another galaxy. They’ll grow just about anywhere (some even grow without soil), and since they can survive missing a few waterings even the most absent-minded gardener can grow succulents.
We trialed some succulents last year and loved them so we adding in a line of succulents to our production this spring. Here is a list of what we are growing.
- SUCCULENTS – Aeonium Kiwi
- SUCCULENTS – Aeonium Pinwheel
- SUCCULENTS – Aeonium Zwarkop
- SUCCULENTS – Crassula Campfire
- SUCCULENTS – Crassula Princess Pine
- SUCCULENTS – Echeveria Perle von Nurnberg
- SUCCULENTS – Echeveria nodulosa
- SUCCULENTS – Graptoveria Fred Ives
- SUCCULENTS – Kalanchoe Silver Grey
- SUCCULENTS – Kalanchoe thysiflora
- SUCCULENTS – Sedum Variegated
- SUCCULENTS – Sedum nussbaumerianum
Also here are some links to some interesting ideas on how and where you can plant succulents in your garden. Thanks to Bill (www.twitter.com/BillCalkins) for theses links.
Exciting and Unusual Container Plant Combinations
Thrift Store Succulent Storage
Here are a few more links for you:
I’m still not convinced that succulents are intelligent life from space sent to take over the earth. They have a strong foothold in the greenhouses where we earthlings are duped into providing them the perfect environment with food and water for propagation.
Maybe I’ve been watching too much V.
We have a lot of plants that are sizing up and starting to bud but the cloudy weather has us running 1-2 weeks behind on a lot of things. In addition to that we scheduled less to be ready in early March than previous years which seems to have been a good move at this point.
Here is our new availability: avail-2-26
Now for the pictures…
Ageratum just starting to bud out, but the alyssum needs another week.
The broccoli and other cole crops are looking good. We are running low of a few varieties of our first crop but the next one should be ready by March 8. The combo deco pots are coloring up. A good day or two of sun and these babies will look awesome.
The dianthus is coming on slow, but the lettuce is loving the weather.
Plum Vein Wave Petunias and Cherry Profusion Zinnias
Only the Profusion Cherry and Orange Zinnias are blooming, the rest are still just budded. Weird, huh?
Perennials
Last up is a video of the perennials and me discussing some of what we have ready (when my brain is working that is).
Here is our second installment of some of the new items we have added this year.
(If you look for Part I, you will find it’s not anywhere around. As at least one of you noticed, we had some database issues last week and it went away with all my posts for December and January. As soon as we find them, we’ll get them back in there!)
Calliope Dark Red Geranium – we trialed this geranium last year and it is awesome! The Calliope is an interspecific geranium which is a long word to say that they cross bred an ivy geranium with a zonal geranium. In this case, they were able to come up with a geranium that exhibits all the best attributes of a zonal with the dark red bloom color usually found only in ivy geraniums. The plant habit is mounding and very uniform. We’ll get more pictures of this great geraniums soon. (Picture: www.dallasplantrials.org)
Caliente Geraniums – also an interspecific geranium, Caliente geraniums have the cascading plant habit of ivy geraniums along with the full foliage characteristics of zonal geraniums. Calientes do not trail like regular ivy geraniums but have a more sprawling habit. (Picture: http://www.greenhousegrower.com/trends/moe/?storyid=2360)
Calliope and Caliente Geraniums will be available in #10 Hanging Baskets and also were both Greenhouse Grower Medal of Excellence Winners!
In addition to the geraniums we have added a couple of colors to our line of tropical hibiscus – Tye-Dye Wind and Mandarin Wind.
Look for more of what’s new coming soon.
Have you ever had one of those day where you thought, “Hey, I don’t have much to do so today will be a breeze!” Only to have the whole day explode?
Welcome to my Friday which feels a lot like a Monday.
Here is our first posted availability – avail-2-19
We added in impatiens, tomatoes, perennials, asparagus ferns and a few other items for next week. The tomatoes are about tag high. I will get some pictures of them posted next week.
UPDATE: here is a link to how tall the tomatoes are.
Strawberries in #4 and J6 (606s).
Cole crops – broccoli and cabbage
1204 Dusty Miller and J6 Impatiens
J6 Burgundy Salvia with a few buds and J6 Snapdragons with color.
J6 Verbena
