End of Spring Shipping Season

We are quickly approaching that fine line of where spring officially becomes
summer. Spring was certainly cooler for most of us and now it's confusing
with the intermittent warmer days thrown in with some of the still cooler
ones. This still makes for good planting. With the Clearance prices that we
have on our surplus bare root stock time remains to plant those fruit trees
or get that hedge started.

Our last week for shipping this summer will be the week of June 29th. Our
office will be closed during the week of July 6th. We will be popping in
briefly several times during that week to check emails and confirm new
orders.

July and August are always busy months here as we are visiting with our
growers and selecting the plants that we will have available for you. Also,
I am searching through my personal library for interesting topics that we
can talk about in our fall and spring newsletters. Since time will be quite
limiting, we may only send out one updating newsletter over July. But, come
August/September, we should be getting back to our weekly communication with
you.

I truly enjoy interaction with all of you. There are two more newsletters
before our July break and I will miss that contact, but as I read and
research, I will come back for fall newsletters with lots of interesting
material. If there is anything in particular that you would like for me to
address, I'd be happy to look into it. Just drop me an email at
chery@greenwoodnursery.com.
During this time, we will still be adding in pictures of our garden (plan to
get initial pictures up on the slideshow tomorrow).

Check out our Facebook page for even more landscaping and gardening tips as
well as an album on Steve's trips to Africa. He was quite busy on his last
trip to Africa a couple of months ago, but did have time to take more
pictures, so I will be adding new ones to his album soon.

Until next time........Cheryl

Bare Root Plants

You know the most frequent question I get is what is the difference with the
bare root plants? Well, the biggest difference is always going to be price
(bare root plants are typically less expensive), but let me explain what
exactly bare root is.

Seed is planted and it grows the seedlings or cuttings are taken from
cutting stock and rooted after which some plant varieties are sold at this
stage, which means that the seedlings are dug, counted into bundles and
shipped without any soil just as cuttings are pulled, bundled and shipped
bare root. You've probably heard the term liner. It is used for any young
plant whether it is a seedling or cutting. For our larger bare root plants,
the liners (seedlings or cuttings) are then taken to the field for another
year to two years of growth. After going dormant, they are dug (depending on
when they are scheduled to ship out) and kept as dormant as possible before
shipping. The soil is shaken from the roots so that there shouldn't be any
on the root system when they are being prepped for shipping. In many cases,
a bare root transplant will be huskier or beefier in caliper (the size of
the trunk) than one of the same age in a container.

Our planting instructions can always be found on our web site under the tab
"Plant Tips". Once clicking onto Planting Care and Instructions, then click
onto the type of plant you will be planting. Some plants, such as shrubs and
trees, are divided into Planting Bare Root and Planting Container with step
by step directions.

There isn't any more of a risk in planting bare root than container plants
and depending on the plant, some are better off as bare root transplants. It
has been 2 years since we have had an End of Spring Clearance. As many of
you will remember last spring, we sold out of a lot of our plant varieties,
so to combat that we probably did purchase a few more as to not disappoint.

This is a wonderful time to take advantage of some of our great clearance
prices.

Be sure to check the homepage from time to time as Indy will be featuring
the container items that she needs "thin out".

We appreciate your continued support.

Until next time...Cheryl