Friday, April 16, 2010

Is Spring really here? YEA!


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Now that I've gotten that little bit of administrative annoyance out of the way...Welcome to Spring! Here are a few shots of my 'helpers' around the nursery...

(yea, that's my boy with a pink watering can. He stole it from my daughter!)

Yes, Spring is here. God plans it that way every year, yet we still get so excited to see it again. I'm so glad we finally got rid of that pesky snow that just kept coming and coming this year. Normally we get just one or two dustings of snow each winter, but this year was a BIG exception. Luckily we never got around to putting the plastic on the hoop house and it's a good thing as you will see below. Most all the plants did just fine, except for the Geisha Hollies...lost every one! For some reason, all the hollies around our area suffered this winter. There is a very large pair of chinese hollies between here and my daughter's school that have large dead branches in them now. Clearly, they've been around a long time, but this winter did some serious damage.

This is what our greenhouse looks like with a cozy blanket of snow. Quite picturesque, really.


The first snowfall we had was the deepest and it took out our covered greenhouse, which thankfully was empty. It used to be our propagation house when we first got started in this business, but has not been used since last winter. Once we get it cleaned up though, it will become a new shade house like it's neighbor, so I'm looking forward to that.


The bright side is that Spring has now arrived and it's very near time to set your garden plan in motion. Check out our website!

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