June 2023 Newsletter

June 2023 Newsletter

June is here, and the Summer Solstice is just 3 weeks away. I always find it a little hard to take that the days start getting shorter soon. However, on some of those scorching days we get, I can not wait for the sun to go down,

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May 2023 Newsletter

May 2023 Newsletter

I don’t know about you, but this abundant sunshine with heat is taking its toll on me.  I will adjust with time, but for now, it feels too fast, too soon.  The good news is the ground is warming up, so we can plant our warm-season vegetables

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April 2023 Newsletter

April 2023 Newsletter

I am looking out my computer room window at the local Western Redbuds in flower. The tulip Magnolias for sale at the nursery are blooming too. We had to move our first batch of four-inch petunias out of our little greenhouse to make room for the next

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March 2023 Newsletter

March 2023 Newsletter

What is that saying about March? “In like a lion and out like a lamb.” At this point, I hope that is true. We woke up to 2 inches of snow and decided not to open last week. That gave me time to start the newsletter. It

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January / February Newsletter 2023

January / February Newsletter 2023

Ah, blessed sunshine has been so welcome after the deluge we received. I believe Middletown is close to its seasonal average, and as long as we get some more rain, we are not looking too shabby. The wind can stay away as its drying effect is not

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2023 Roses

2023 Roses

We order bareroot roses from Star Roses and Plants and Weeks Roses. Shipments are due around the first of February. We sell them bareroot for a limited time and pot the rest for sale through the year. We do run out of varieties as the year progresses.

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2023 Bareroot Trees

2023 Bareroot Trees

Plant varieties ordered from Dave Wilson Nursery for 2023: Braeburn Apple Superb late season fruit: very crisp and tangy, more flavorful than Granny Smith. Excellent keeper. Green with dark red blush. October-November harvest. Discovered in New Zealand in 1952, grown in U.S. since 1980s. 700 hours. Proven

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December 2022 Newsletter

December 2022 Newsletter

All the leaves have fallen off most of my trees. Has winter finally come? Last week we set some record daytime highs, but today it barely made it out of the 40s at the nursery. Nighttime temps have been consistently in the mid 20’s now. At least

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November 2022 Newsletter

November 2022 Newsletter

How about that! Cooler weather and Fall conditions have arrived. Here at the nursery, we have been pretty close to a killing frost 2 nights now. There is frost damage on the squash plants in the lower greenhouse/growing area, but not in the retail area yet. We

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October Newsletter 2022

October Newsletter 2022

  Notices:   October 8: Closing at 2pm for Staff function October 31st:Trick or Treat 2-5 pm Here we are into the last quarter of 2022. Another year of now normal, abnormal weather, including cloudbursts this month bringing over three inches of rain to some places, temperatures in the teens this

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