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Japanese Hollies, outside, spaced useful and practical, but I feel I’m soon start tagging all the plants
tightly and covered with a frost not savvy enough to make the in the nursery. We will do this for
blanket for the winter. If I’m worried final choice except based on price. our workers’ and our customers’
that smaller plants might be Unless the price changes or I get convenience, and to speed up
crushed by heavy snow, I use full some financial danger signal that check out. It will also reduce pricing
gallons upside down between the comes up, I’ll let the younger ones mistakes.
plants for support. make that choice. After all, they are Every year we bring in clematis
now the future of this nursery.
The long quest for finding a point- liners from Donohoe because they
of-sale system is still going along. One thing Larry said to me after we are the best we can find. A few
We are waiting for a quote on a had discussed the tagging for bar years ago, we tried another supplier
system that is set up for garden codes or whatever the scanners for some reason. The first shipment
centers and nurseries. It seems will have to read, is that we will was dead or barely rooted. Then
we got another shipment with the
exact same results, so we decided
not to do that again. This year’s
liners from Donohoe are the best
I’ve ever gotten. Clematis do need a
lot of pinching and attaching to a
trellis to look good. The trellis needs
to be the kind that will grip the lip of
the container since everyone tries
to pick them up using the trellis as a
handle, even me. Anyway, this year
I had nice and full branched ones,
the best yet.
John Ellingsworth’s Forest View
Nursery had its auction last month
and it went well. It was online as I
suppose all will be in the future. It’s
a little bit sad as it was always fun
and interesting to be in a crowd of
our friendly competitors and to be
able to make a little side deal to
help someone out after you won
a bid over them. At one auction I
won one lot of boxwood at a very
low price and used the option to
claim the next 2 lots. When I did
this, I heard a small exclamation
of disappointment behind me.
As we moved to the next group I
said to the person, “Sorry but the
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