Crop 297 of Flowering Shrub Farm Subscriber Only Picture Newsletter;
February 26
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Espalier trained fruit trees are covered with Remay to protect them from dear that will eat new, tender growth. As they start to flower the coverings will be removed so they can be cross pollinated. Later, after fruit set, the coverings will be reaplied to protect fruit from insects.
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February 21
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Opened up the Pinxterbloom Cold frame box to examine the Rosebay Rhododendrons and Pinxterbloom Azaleas. Had Curt shovel up to the espalier in 45 gallon pots so that I can take new pictures tomorrow or the next day. Check informative answers to emails I received in February, at the bottom of this page.
www.floweringshrubfarm.com/2013inve.htm Lilacs that flowered in 2013
February 7
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Stewarts coffee shop on the far left, the two family house at the flowering shrub farm next, Verizon Telephone in the brick building, the car wash just across the railroad tracks, the Post office across the street from the car wash in the back ground on the right side of the street and Voorheesville Diner on the far right just this side of the tracks. Out in front of the house I have large Roses and Lilacs planted in 45 gallon pots. When flowering they provide a magnificent display for passers-by, then are a source of hundreds of cuttings in July and August. About half our cuttings are sent out to a greenhouse while the remainder are stuck in our own cold frames. Many of the plants we propagate and grow were originally chosen by subscribers who had difficulty finding them elsewhere. They requested them in an email and when I found them to be hardy and disease resistant enough I obtained one or more to take cuttings from and added the name to my catalogs. If one dies for any reason and I dont have one large enough own root to take its place I often purchase another grafted on Rosa multiflora as a source of more cuttings.
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The Lilac walk is lined up along the sidewalk in front of the shrub farm with huge roses and lilacs growing in 45 gallon pots. I treat all potential customers of the flowering shrub farm as though they lived next door and were visiting the nursery. The picture newsletter has pictures of many of the plants we are growing as we interact with them. I want my mail order customers to have a clear idea of what they will get before we ship it out so I take pictures that clearly show the size of the plants, the thickness of the stems and a flower that proves the variety. Often we have two or more custmers vying for the same plant so I set up a list based on the date they originally emailed me ordering that plant. All emails are printed out for that reason and also to insure that if my computer stops working that I still have their information. I also sell native species azaleas, rhododendrons and blueberry bushes.
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Every year in July and August I take hundreds of cuttings from the large roses. In June I will over-write these pictures while they are in bloom.
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I prefer the biggest roses as they make a huge impression when flowering.
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Check out 'New Dawn' 25 feet across with canes being trained all over.
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Mocha was rescued after a long life as a breeder. She is looking adoringly at her master who is snapping his fingers next to my right shoulder to hold her attention.
February 1
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I plant 5 espalier into 45 gallon pots every year along with 5 old garden roses that I plan to take hundreds of cuttings from sometime in the future. These espalier in large pots are trained onto bambo sticks tied between stakes inserted on each side of the pot. If someone wants to buy one and makes a good offer we can dig it out and place it in a smaller pot. Until then they will join my orchard of fruit trees around the nursery and I will probably show pictures of them in season when they have flowers or fruit.
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We divide large Lilacs and Roses that have previously flowered proving the variety and plant them into one gallon pots to sell mail order.
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We work throughout February cleaning equipment, straightening out storage and of course taking as many pictures as we can of crops in the field (many inventory pictures of crops below). Some years we get lots of snow and other years we get hardly any at all though you can usually depend on temperatures well below freezing. If we cant keep up with shoveling snow off buildings those buildings can be flattened. Coldframes and greenhouses are particularly at risk. Helpful comments about this page are highlighted in red.
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In the past, lots of snow........ To see what this year is like check the Lilac inventory pictures below (I overwrite them every february and you can see the date the picture was taken somewhere within the picture). Rose Inventory will be in April. Reload this page in case your computer has it cached; I overwrite pictures frequently and you will want to see the most recent.
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Look at these Lilacs and try to figure if they will bloom this year (which they do when around 3 feet tall). Each one that blooms will be labeled with an individually numbered yellow label and put up for sale during our plant sale for $25 each. Those that dont sell this year will be placed outside the basement window next winter, divided, potted in one or two gallon and made available mail order the next spring. Because they have previously flowered we have picture proof of what each one is and the label number will be painted on the side of the pot with the variety name so you can check it out in the newsletter.
www.floweringshrubfarm.com/2013inve.htm is an inventory of pictures of numbered lilacs taken in 2013.
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Roc-Thi is either 'Rochester' or 'Paul Thirion'.
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INVENTORY PICTURES
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The bags around the base of some pots indicaten that they are cuttings still being rooted. Watch for a new picture sometime in June when I will over-write with the current inventory picture.
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I start over-writing these pictures as soon as it changes like if I sell a bunch or add a bunch of new varieties (the date the picture was taken is in the lower right hand corner of each picture). I propagate plants all year transplanting to a larger size when they outgrow the previous pot (call me if you want on my cell phone at 518-526-9101 or 518-526-9978).
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Smaller than 1 gallon size in 2013 was $5. 1 or 2 gallon was $15 for a 2 year old as measured from the year on the side of the pot, $10 for a 1 year old.
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Paid my server for hosting my web site on Feb 1.
floweringshrubfarm.com is mine until 2020 though I will no doubt extend that before then.
Annual sales tax year ends Feb 20. Have to pay state sales tax by March 20.
INVENTORY PICTURES
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The bags around the base of some pots indicaten that they are cuttings still being rooted. Watch for a new picture sometime in June when I will over-write with the current inventory picture.
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I start over-writing these pictures as soon as it changes like if I sell a bunch or add a bunch of new varieties (the date the picture was taken is in the lower right hand corner of each picture). I propagate plants all year transplanting to a larger size when they outgrow the previous pot (call me if you want on my cell phone at 518-526-9101 or 518-526-9978).
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Smaller than 1 gallon size in 2013 was $5. 1 or 2 gallon was $15 for a 2 year old as measured from the year on the side of the pot, $10 for a 1 year old.
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About the ALL-PICTURE-NEWSLETTER by andyvancleve
Flowering Shrub Farm Monthly All Picture Newsletters; January February March April May 6 to 16 May 20 to 31 June 4 to 7 June 8 to 9 June 11 to 13 June 16 to 25 July August September October November December
Potential Customers subscribe. Each month I send them the latest email link to the newsletter, information as to what is blooming and sometimes an update telling them when I am open.
I copy and paste the pictures from my generic newsletter page to another for subscribers only. I will then over-write last years pictures with this years and add comments concerning availability and price between the pictures (if you reload this page you will get to see some of the pictures). New pictures are added at the top of the newsletter. Then I will send to all my subscribers probably by the tenth of the month a link to the new page. If you wish to subscribe to my free picture-newsletter just email me. At the end of the month I copy and paste into the generic page (bottom of page) available to anyone and remove the comments.
When they see something they like they come buy it in bloom.
We grow plants to sell at our plant sale. Read my notes on the zone hardiness numbers I use. Do we do mail order? Check my picture-newsletter Want to purchase? email me.
Flowering Shrub Farm Monthly All Picture Newsletters; January February March April May 6 to 16 May 20 to 31 June 4 to 7 June 8 to 9 June 11 to 13 June 16 to 25 July August September October November December
Email in February
www.floweringshrubfarm.com/2014.htm
As people request roses from me I add the information to a list of plants that I make sure I have taken cuttings from in July and sent to a green house. So the more times it is requested the more cuttings at different times of the year are taken. Even if I have the rose this year I am even more likely to have it next year and if I dont have it I certainly should because if cuttings have not rooted recently I will probably layer a plant.
At the bottom of my roseraie page where I recorded last years cuttings from roses it shows;
Took cuttings July 23, 2013; #10331:194 cuttings Apothecarys Rose, Camieux, Goldfinch, Fru Dagmar Hastrup, Felicite Parmentier, Rose of Castile, Red Moss, Amelie Gravereau, Sarah Van Fleet, John Davis, Zephirine Drouhin, Conrad F Meyer, Tour de Malakoff and Crested Moss.
The problem being that whatever roots we will still have to identify later when it flowers. When we get these back from the greenhouse the number 10331 will be written on the side of the pot so that when it flowers we can compare it to the flowers of those varieties above. Its almost like a game.
Try clicking the picture.
As plants flower I take pictures of the flower (along with an individually numbered yellow label that allows me to save the picture using the variety name and that number) and publish them in my newsletter which I have signed you up for. We will try to differentiate between a semi-double red (apothecarys rose), a striped (Camieux), a yellow (Goldfinch), a single silvery pink (Fru Dagmar), a double pink (Felicite Parmentier), a double pink (Rose of Castile), a red double (Red Moss), .........
During the Propagation Year, as people tell me what roses they are interested in, I put together combinations of cuttings (including the one that they requested), that I should be able to tell apart at a later date when they flower (or through other characteristics like the moss that grows on the buds of 'Crested Moss'). If the variety they request isn't on my list and if it proves to be hardy and disease resistant I may buy one grafted on Rosa multiflora to take cuttings from and add it to the list.
I can look in my disease resistant rose list where I record cuttings taken or that later rooted.
www.floweringshrubfarm.com/avirtual.htm
As cuttings are potted up I erase the notes in red that refer to cuttings taken and replace them with notes on how many were potted. We wont actually sell these until they have flowered proving the variety. As I receive email orders I prioritize them by the date received and add their name to a list for each variety alongside the email date.
I also do this for Lilacs and espalier.
Lilacs are taken as cuttings from already identified numbered plants out in the nursery. The number is painted on the side of the pot along side the variety name and the date cuttings were taken. I talked to someone today in Cape Cod who has not yet sent an email (when he does I will add to my reply here)........
With espalier I might cleft graft another level on top of the previous level already trained. Consider a Horizontal T where the bottom level is 'Liberty' and we cleft graft a 'Stayman Winesap' onto the verticle stem and train it to the second level........
The following link shows my prioritized list of plants that my subscribers have expressed an interest in. Next year as we start taking cuttings we will take them from this list first and many of these roses and lilacs will be trench layered in spring.
www.floweringshrubfarm.com/2014.htm