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I answer emails this way because its much easier on my disabled hands (I just send a link via email). I will be in the hospital sometime in mid May that will interfere with sales no doubt. Call me if you want. Click the little picture for a larger image you can study more closely or save as wallpaper (additional links at bottom of page). Include a phone number with your email (that I check every morning unless I am in hospital) so I can call you back. For help on what a cuttings picture is click help

I plan to get a stem cell transplant starting April 28 at Dana Farber in Boston. Sometimes that can involve a hospital stay of up to 30 days or more. Then I have to go back for a month to see the Doctor once a week and later once a month. During that year I am not allowed to be exposed to viruses or bacteria so you might imagine that I wont be potting, propagating, etc. but will still be allowed to do computer work, answering emails and taking pictures. Curt will come over once a week to do much of the work with other family members getting involved in other aspects as neaded and when I am available I will meet with customers or make arrangements. Later, after I am back, I may be able to oversee the packaging up of one gallons to ship. Be sure to include your phone number as I may not be able to reply to your emails from time to time and a phone call the only option. While I am in Hospital you can call me on my cell phone at 518-526-9978.

Bob on 4/22/2017 asked for wild low bush blueberry. No availability right now. Once we get the Hardy Blueberry Bushes on drip line within a couple months I'll take cuttings pictures of each variety.

Stephanie on 4/22/2017 asked for Souvenir de Philemon Cochet , Roseraie de l'hay , Felicite Parmentier , Belle de Crecy , Great Maidens Blush , Alba maxima and Duc de Guiche , a pretty big list. Try clicking each of the blue links and check out the cuttings picture. If we have it I'll over-write the cuttings picture with a new one but probably wont have that until later in summer. We wont know until July perhaps but read this answer below.

Nickalos on 4/22/2017 asked for Constance Spry Click the blue link and The second picture from the left (the cuttings picture) shows a picture of plants we had last year that were not yet available but that we might sell if they survived this last winter and if they flower possibly sometime in June or July. If we identify some at that time we will mark them with a price sticker and variety name on the side of the pot and take a picture to over-write the cuttings picture with. I will add a link to the list in my IN-STOCK page. When you see available plants with price sticker and variety name send me an email with your address and phone number so I can call you back.

Mike on 4/22/2017 asked for fragrant Lilacs so I mentioned French Lilacs with a double flower Krasavitsa Moskvy in particular. You may notice a flower and cuttings picture for this variety at the top of this page but if you just click on the blue link Krasavitsa Moskvy there may be many more pictures. Each time I do this I add the flower and cuttings picture on the left and delete one from the right. I will go out today and look for pictures of this lilac perhaps labeled KM to add to my newsletter .......

Steven on 4/17/2017 asked for La Belle Sultane and Tuscany Click the blue link and The second picture from the left (the cuttings picture) shows a picture of plants we had last year that were not yet available but that we might sell if they survived this last winter and if they flower possibly sometime in June or July. If we identify some at that time we will mark them with a price sticker and variety name on the side of the pot and take a picture to over-write the cuttings picture with. I will add a link to the list in my IN-STOCK page. When you see available plants with price sticker and variety name send me an email with your address and phone number so I can call you back.

Nichelle on 4/16/2017 wants Primrose As you can see from the cuttings picture second from the left above we had some available as of a date in the corner but I believe that we are not selling them now because somebody mixed two different crops of white flowering lilacs and we are waiting for them to flower so we can un-mix them.

Donald on 4/15/2017 wants Jens Munk As you can see from the cuttings picture second from the left above we dont have any available at this time but we may be growing some in the field. Click roseraie to understand how we grow roses or help to understand about the cuttings picture.

Jan on 4/14/2017 asked for Madame Hardy Click the blue link and The second picture from the left (the cuttings picture) shows a generic picture of plants on drip line which indicates that we should have rooted cuttings that we might sell when they flower possibly in June or July. If we identify some at that time we will mark them with a price sticker and variety name on the side of the pot and take a picture to over-write the cuttings picture with. I will add a link to the list in my IN-STOCK page. When you see available plants with price sticker and variety name send me an email with your address and phone number so I can call you back.

Greg emailed me on 4/11/2017. asked for Hansa and F.J. Grootendorst click these blue links to go to the variety page. Read just below as my answer is the same

Linda emailed me on 4/11/2017. asked for Madame Hardy Click the blue link and The second picture from the left (the cuttings picture) shows a generic picture of plants on drip line which indicates that we should have rooted cuttings that we might sell when they flower possibly in June or July. If we identify some at that time we will mark them with a price sticker and variety name on the side of the pot and take a picture to over-write the cuttings picture with. I will add a link to the list in my IN-STOCK page. When you see available plants with price sticker and variety name send me an email with your address and phone number so I can call you back.

Landscapes by Design emailed me on 4/11/2017. They asked about Lilacs Adelaide Dunbar Jan Van Tol and Superba

Pamela emailed me on 4/10/2017. She asked about blueberry bushes both highbush and lowbush. Later in the year we will be setting up a dripline for blueberry bushes alone and when that happens I will take pictures for the newsletter . Not sure when I will go into the hospital but if I do Curt will be working on driplines in May, I just wont show pictures until after I get out.

Sarah emailed me on 4/10/2017. She asked if #86 Ludwig Spaeth and #91 Sarah Sands were available for mail order (she did not give me her address so I dont know if I can ship to her). If you click on the blue link of the variety name and look at the second picture from the left you see what was available as of a date in the corner (click "help" above and read about how you might be able to determine availability from the cuttings picture). These pictures will be over-written with new ones as plants break dormancy in april and may. I'm pretty sure we wont have any Sarah Sands available (we have limited numbers that we use for propagation only at this time) but if you click this picture below it shows left over one gallon lilacs from last year and though Nadezhda is already claimed I think there may be a Ludwig Spaeth.

I can send plants to the following states without having to have them inspected; Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming (I cut the address out of your email printout and stick it to the package).

John emailed me on 4/9/2017. Asked how to order plants. The hardest part is trying to figure out if I have the plants you want in stock or if I am sold out. Lots of people ask this question at the wrong time of year as I dont usually know what I have until plants come out of dormancy (having survived the winter). In may sometime I will probably over-write many of the cuttings pictures for Lilacs adding links to my IN-STOCK page and in June or July we may be doing the same for roses. I usually sell two plants in one gallon pots shipped in a flat rate priority mail box. Send me an email, include your address and phone number, a list of potential plants from the list of available plants that I may show on my IN-STOCK page for me to pick the two from. I will call you back to tell you if there are any problems and to tell you how much to make the check out for...........

Adele emailed me on 4/6/2017. I plan to get a stem cell transplant sometime in May at Dana Farber in Boston. Sometimes that can involve a hospital stay of up to 30 days or more. Then I have to go back for a month to see the Doctor once a week and later once a month. During that year I am not allowed to be exposed to viruses or bacteria so you might imagine that I wont be potting, propagating, etc. but will still be allowed to do computer work, answering emails and taking pictures. Curt will come over once a week to do much of the work with other family members getting involved in other aspects as neaded and when I am available I will meet with customers or make arrangements. Later, after I am back, I may be able to oversee the packaging up of one gallons to ship. Be sure to include your phone number as I may not be able to reply to your emails from time to time and a phone call the only option.

Ted on 4/5/2017 wants a couple of Rosa alba Semi-Plena Second picture from the left (the cuttings picture) shows around 12 cuttings taken last year (there may have been others. We dont have any at this time but every year when we take cuttings, those that root and then survive the winter are grown on drip line in the field until they flower probably in June or July. At that time we verify the identity, note the variety name with a paint pen on the side of the pot and add a price sticker. All of the same variety are turned so that the variety and price sticker are easily visible and a cuttings picture is taken (the new picture is used to over-write the new one). Click thhe cuttings picture above and you may be able to read notes on the side of the pot. No price sticker? None for sale at this time.

Randy on 4/1/2017 wants Constance Spry

Peg on 4/1/2017 wants Nadezhda this will act as sort of a reminder to take additional Lilacs by mail pictures showing Nadezhda in a 1 gallon pot and the picture from March 30 showing Curt fertilizing lilacs in the field with snow all around will show Peg that we still have plenty of time to bare root this plant just so long as I find it. Click the center picture and look for the one that says Nadezhda on the side of the pot in the picture. Some states dont allow us to send plants with the soil on because they are afraid of insects or pathogens overwintering in the soil. So we remove the soil while plants are still dormant, storing the plant in a refridgerator so it remains dormant later in the year. At some point when we have a bunch of plants to be shipped we call the agricultural inspector to come and inspect, then ship them out.

Taylor on 4/1/2017 wants Jens Munk As you can see from the cuttings picture on the left above we dont have any available at this time. Click roseraie to understand how we grow roses or help to understand the layout of each page better.

Bonnie on 3/31/2017 wants Four Seasons (click the blue link for additional pictures and info) and Super Dorothy Click roseraie to understand how we grow roses & help to see what a cuttings picture is. Check out the newsletter where I show pictures of what we have done most recently.

Bill on 3/30/2017 wants 10 or 20 of each Centifolia Tuscany Apothecarys Rose Rosa Mundi Alba maxima If I had them they would be 15 to 20 dollars each, but of course I dont sell them in those quantities and have no idea how much the shipping would be. Usually I only sell 2 at a time, one gallon size each and ship them in a flat rate priority mail box for 20 bucks. Far left is cabbage rose, next is tuscany, next is apothecarys, etc. Nothing for sale yet probably until after June or later. Then in July and August we stick hundreds of cuttings, those that root will be taken through the winter in an unheated coldframe and those that survive will be added to those on drip line in summer until they flower when I will stick on a price sticker (and possibly change the variey name painted on the side) and take more pictures to over-write the cuttings pictures with. The price sticker indicates its for sale. No price sticker? Not for sale yet. Check out the newsletter where I show pictures of what we have done most recently.

Stacy on 3/30/2017 Lilacs with pink flowers (top of page) including; Edward J Gardner Krasavitsa Moskvy (or Beauty of Moskow is a double white from pink buds) and Belle de Nancy As you can see though in this picture of curt fertilizing taken on the 30th we still have snow and there for are not yet done with preparing for the season. May not be able to ship anything until June due to health problems. Go to the newsletter

Darlene on 3/28/2017 Lilac 82 Aucubaefolia lilac 76 Edward J Gardner Rambler 190 Alberic Barbier I prefer just the names (click each blue link for more pictures of each variety). We use the numbers on pots in the field and when taking cuttings because it fits a smaller area than the entire variety name would. We may have some Alberic Barbier that are not for sale yet because they have not been identified yet in the field maybe sometime in June or July (also planting a new source of cuttings for this variety sometime this summer. Wont know about lilacs until later in the year though we will probably look tomorrow (so watch the newsletter).

Prices go up whenever we handle the plants or in responce to how many or few we have. So I place a price sticker on the side of the pots grouped together by variety and take a cuttings picture to over-write with. Lilacs in the field or at the plant sale in 3 gallon pots are $25 to $30, When they have been cut back they become $30 and repotted into a 7 gallon is $40, divided in half would be $15 to $20 each half, etc.

Shane on 3/28/2017 asking about Basye's Purple Watch the newsletter when I take a more recent picture it will appear there.

Chris on 3/21/2017 asking about Rhododendron maximum that we do not have at this time (click the picture to open a larger image where you can see when I took the picture). We grow Rhododendron maximum from seed collected locally.

Leenie on 3/20/2017 Apothecarys Rose So watch the newsletter because when I take the picture it will appear there.

Janet on March 17, 2017 Fru Dagmar Hastrup Crested Moss help instock click each blue link

Annette on March 16, 2017 City of York

Palatine Rose Order on March 15 Ipsilante Madame Hardy Palatine is located in Canada and sells grafted roses on seed grown species root stock. I will use these plants as an additional resource to take cuttings from while seeing what Palatines product looks like.

Lisa on March 15, 2017,

You asked about Ludwig Spaeth Congo Charles Joly Krasavitsa Moskvy, Primrose Rosa Cornelia Rose Madame Hardy

Click on each of the blue links. Still to early to see the availability of each. We may have some ludwig spaeth and krasavitsa moskvy but we'll have to wait for the snow to melt. Cornelia and Mme Hardy Roses may be in the field under drip line but we wont know until they flower and are identified (read my roseraie page). I placed a link to this answer page at the top of my HOME page.

Mike on March 10, 2017 Henry Hudson

Nancy on March 7 Mme Legras de St. Germain

Mark on March 5 Clark's Giant Forest Kresser Smith Rochester Sarah Sands

Jason on 3/4/17 Semi-Plena

Nathaniel 3/3/17 Roseraie de l'hay

Scott (February 17, 2017) Alba maxima Alba semi plena Souvenir de Philemon Cochet Basye's Purple Geranium Hansa etc.