Getting Ready for Spring Planting

Our Christmas season was a great one, thanks to all our wonderful customers.  Now that 2010 is behind us, we're getting ready for our Spring Season.  It's time to get our hard-working staff in full swing to start filling baskets, pots, and flats, because our Spring plant cuttings, plugs and liners begin arriving the first week of February.

The bags of our soilless mix potting media will be carried in and used to fill our hanging baskets, pots, and flats.

The guys will get to work filling the hanging baskets (as you see James and Louis doing in the above photo to the left) and the flats (as Randy is doing in the above photo to the right.)

When the plant cuttings, liners and plugs arrive, they look something like the ones pictured at the left.  Each one, depending on the plant, will initially range in size from 2-inches tall to as small as 1/2-inch tall.



When our hanging baskets are first planted, they will look something like this.  In a matter of weeks -- on average, 7 to 8 weeks -- they look like the photos below of the Shockwave Petunias we grew and sold in the Spring 2010 season.



Shockwave Denim Blue



Shockwave Pink

Shockwave Rose

In addition to the Shockwave Petunias for our hanging baskets, we will also receive our Zonal Geranium plugs the first week of February.

Diabolo Red Geraniums - Spring 2010

Our tentative opening date for Spring is scheduled for Thursday, March 31.  Until then, we hope you will visit our blog often and follow the growth progress of the plants we will be selling this Spring!