Dear Tamsin: I know Eb will give you the real response, but I had to put in my two cents. There is an old gardening saying in this country that Bearded Irises must be divided only after Memorial Day (the end of May) and before Labor Day (the beginning of September). It certainly would have [...]
Here’s a question that will expose my ignorance of New World gardening. Sunday I was out back dividing a huge patch of old Bearded Irises that my predecessors planted countless years ago (they look like Copper Classic, Kay, with something rich and very deep blue — maybe Tom Johnson? Gorgeous, whatever it is!). There I [...]
Sharon, I don’t know if customers ever ask what our containers are made of or how we arrived at the sizes and materials we use, but I thought I’d fill in a bit of background in case anybody is curious. We use nursery trade containers, which are made from poly resin to be lightweight but [...]
Hi Sharon! It surely was a pleasure to see your new grandbaby in church yesterday. Annette said he looks just like old Mr. Hughes who she remembers from the curb store when she was a kid. But I think he favors his father too. We were figuring he must be the first boy in two [...]
Hi everyone this is Sharon from CS. My team asked me to find out why we say "1 trade gallon pot – 3 qt" for some of our plants. Customers ask about this all the time, and remind us that a gal. has 4 qts. We always just say something about a TRADE gallon is [...]
Hi there everybody. I don’t know where I’ve been these past few weeks, but I have finally discovered the blog. I’m Martin Santos, but unless you work in the greenhouses or the Garden Center, you’ve never seen me. Even then, I’m usually just a pair of legs topped with arm loads of plants. I’m the [...]