A Grower Perspective

Several varieties of sweetly scented geraniums are available in our front greenhouse.  Come by and choose some for a porch or deck pot.  Bring them in during the winter and you’ll have them ready for next year when the time comes.  Along with their sculptured leaves and delicate flowers they are useful in cooking and in sachets or luxurious baths.

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Back in the day, as they say, when I was a kid, long ago but not that long ago, a typical homeowner was daring to even grow a tomato around here let alone get ripe fruit. A cherry tomato was a more reasonable way to go. My dad used to yank the whole plant out of the ground and hang it upside down in the garage so the cherry tomatoes would ripen after the first frost came. It feels like the weather of the late fifties and sixties again.It would be warm in late May and as soon as school let out it began to rain. So here we are again. For the first time in 28 years lilacs were blooming as late as May 21st. How do I know that? It is our wedding anniversary and I had a huge vase of them on our table this year. In 1983 there was not a blooming lilac to be found, they had all bloomed earlier.

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Erica carnea ‘Ruby Glow’ and honey bees, early spring at the nursery February 17, 2011, all is good in the world.

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As we are starting to see more spring blossoms pop out take note of this flowering cherry,  lovely blossoms, soft double pink fading to white, red shiny bark that peels away to give a unique texture and year round focal point to any landscape.  The size makes it suitable to a container, small or large garden.  Now blooming in front of the nursery.  Come look!

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Leylandii cypress is the unlikely union between a Monterey Cypress and a Nootka or Alaskan Cedar. This occurred in England on the Leyland Estate in 1888. The two parent plants were collected from far corners of the world and planted within proximity on the estate, and the bond resulted in the offspring of what we know as simply "Leylandii" today. Propagation of this hybrid began in 1925 as the result of a search for a fast growing, salt and wind tolerant conifer.

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