Tag: greenhouse

Good news; 1 of the 2 potted Lobelia siphilitica are now at flowering age.
Bad news is that these were supposed to be a white flowered strain not blue!
The source for the seeds said they were open pollinated so it’s possible that the blue-flowered gene dominated the white genes.

REUPLOADING THIS TWEET/POST REMINDS ME THAT I GOTTA LABEL THAT FACT BEFORE WINTER AAACK

Of course the Clematis virginiana in the greenhouse goes to flower while its garden-planted siblings show no signs of flowerbuds.
If I knew sooner I would’ve planted this one instead lol. Lovely white monster-to-be.

Not entirely sure what to do with the remaining greenhouse specimens; resell them? Find some really rough spot to let them raise their hell? Who knows.

For some time I’ve felt that I’ve needed to make a spreadsheet/database so that I could keep note of what works and what doesn’t for certain species so that I don’t have to entirely depend on memory to recall what’s the best/worst for whichever species I’m trying to produce/sell in the perennial/tree greenhouse. Back in College I had tried to make my own with my apartment plants with… what I can barely call sensible success. Now that I have an actual greenhouse for perennials/trees I’m feeling I need to take another round at trying to have a documenting system.

I must confess that I’m going at this mildly blind here, as most production spreadsheets I could find were schedule sheets and not really production-documentation sheets.

Do you guys think it’s a good spreadsheet plan for perennial plant (seed-sown) production documentation or am I over/underthinking this?

105 Jacks in a batch

Today I got the Jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum) plantlets from the 2015 sowing (the first pic is admittedly not of said Jacks, rather that is of the 2016 sowed Jacks) all into their own individual pots at last. Many of them are still only just waking up from their corms which is fine by me as it’d be a LOT harder to repot them from their super-crowded pot if they were all fully awake and emerged.

With them no longer having to compete with their siblings + with me feeding them some granular fertilizer (eventually. For now I’m not giving them even a lick of fert) they should reach floral maturity much quicker (hoping under 2 years but that might be overly optimistic).

In the next few days the 2016-sown Jacks will be next to repot. We’re definitely gonna be reaching the 200+ mark once we got the 2016 Jacks potted up I’m sure. Thank god the greenhouse got a clean out to make for greatly-needed space! 

Photographed May 18th 2018

I feel such an anxiety spike whenever trying to figure out what I should be charging for the plants I’m selling. My brain can to a degree measure/gauge what an art commission should sell at to a degree, but potted perennials/trees feel up in the air! I can judge what’s a good plant buy (I’m a cheapsake for buying plants), not so much for what’s a good plant sell (as in a sell which consumers will come for while still leading to an actual profit for the seller). Google isn’t particularly helpful for helping me figure this out…

Any perennial/tree sellers out there have a system for how to mark a plant up for its selling price?

THEY LIIIIIIIIIIVE.

Most of the liveliest of the greenhouse residents right now. (not listed in order of the pics) Betula

alleghaniensis, Betula

populifolia, Thuja occidentalis, Catalpa sp., Picea glauca, Geum triflorum, Clemtatis tangutica, and Penstemon hirsutus.

These guys are also on the list of “gonna see if I can sell them this year” crops. Especially the Birches, cause they big and they are a pain in my butt lmao.

Photographed May 13th 2018

Spring Flowers/flowerbuds in the greenhouse

2nd year Alpine Strawberry (2 cultivars, though tempted to sell them together as a “mix” due to messed up labels), Prairie Smoke (Geum triflorum), Canadian Columbine (Aquilegia canadensis) and Foamflower (Tiarella cordifolia).

Talk about fast pace to maturity. These are definitely at selling size so this is the year I’ll be trying to sell them off. Whether its to another nursery or to interested gardeners. Of course I plan to keep 3 of each (except the strawberries) species so that I can propagate from my own stock in the future.

Photographed May 13th 2018