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Out here on drip line I'm just trying to get plants to flower and prove what variety they really are. When they are in bloom I attach a yellow numbered label with an abreviation of the variety name printed on it with a paint pen. Usually the plants are then transported to the plant sale where they will be sold for $25 each.
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In late summer or fall those that have not sold are placed here near the house where its easy enough to get out and cut them back or divide them (lilacs can be propagated from division while still dormant). We cut them back on March 18 and fertilized them with Rose Tone (now they will start producing a thicket of stems.
So as I understand your sister would like to visit a friend in Albany who works at the University on or about April 30 or 31
and you asked if I would be personally available to conduct the two of you around to see and buy from Azalea House Flowering Shrub Farm.
You understand that I prefer selling plants that are actively flowering when I sell them but your busy schedule in May wont permit coming at that time.
Your looking for a double white lilac like maybe Mme Lemoine or Krasavitsa moskvy. Possibly a Pink flowered Belle de Nancy and the two roses Comte de Chambord and Alberic Barbier (continue sending me these ideas as I will be adding pictures to this page and the newsletter).
I'll probably delete this page after our meeting sometime though the pictures will be kept in the newsletter somewhere.
Of course I could be available on those days though we have no idea what the weather will be like. You should talk to me on the phone at 518-526-9978 before you leave and shortly before arriving.
So, first of all you understand that my "farm" is only around 3 acres with the lilacs located mostly in the upper field in 3 gallon pots or larger under drip line.
Because there is a problem in the US finding a source of true to name Lilacs many of them that are growing always turn out to be something other than what I originally wanted. So I ask my customers to get involved in the task of identification by coming to the plant sale when plants are flowering and pick out the one they want. And I can walk among the flowering plants and label those that are clearly true
To be continued.......