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Comments (13)Hi greenhouser, I won't be selling them for quite a while. I just recently moved to 6 acres and I need to create a stockplant base. I'll probably sell rooted cuttings in a few years though. I'm unsure/teetering if I'll get big-time into grafting or if I'll take the easy route and sell cuttings. Grafting is only done when a plant cannot be propagated by a cutting. Mostly. There are a few exceptions: Picea glauca var. albertiana all root from cuttings "Dwarf Alberta Spruce's" All Hemlocks should be rooted and not grafted. Hemlock grafts have been known to up and die in less than 20 years. Besides it's much cheaper to propagate a cutting as no seedling understocks need to be purchased or grown. Junipers root from cuttings. Taxus / Yews root from cuttings Metasequoia can be rooted from cuttings but seedlings are ready in one season to be used for grafting scions thus creating a larger plant more quickly (sellable) All Pines must be grafted except Umbrella Pine (Sciadopity's verticillata) All Spruce minus very few cultivars must be grafted. All Larch must be grafted. Taxodium must be grafted. Chamaecyparis I personally have difficulty rooting. The entire Genus. There are of course many more conifers than what I'm talking about but these are the main ones I mess around with. Dirr & Heuser's Manual of Woody Plant Propagation will explain further and it's the handbook anyone needs to get started. -------- Someday I may sell. Currently I'm on social security disability and my family doesn't want me to over-exert myeself in anyway. Right now it's my lifestyle, my hobby, my way of keeping busy. Happy New Years, sorry I got mad on that other thread a month or so ago. I've already forgotten but I know you didn't have the "mad money" to get a motorized shutter looped with an exhaust fan. Must have been about hot temps. ~ironic??? Regards though, Dax...See MorePing Lim Roses
Comments (24)I think you’d make these roses a priority depending on how much you value blackspot resistance. I’ve had True Inspiration for about 4 months now, and I think it’s sort of the lead rose in the ’True’ series in terms of sales and garden performance. It’s reputed to have great BS resistance, and I dont doubt that, but I cannot verify since my climate is blackspot free. It’s a nice enough rose, but not the most beautiful or best performer in the color class. Pink Peace is a grander bloom with stronger fragrance. Elle is more vigorous and generous, and to my eyes, more beautiful and refined. But if you wanted to be no-spray and live under high BS pressure, then True Inspriation is certainly a more substantial and fragrant flower than say Pink Knock Out. I sort of think the same way about many of the the Kordes. There are far more beautiful pinks than Savannah and Beverly but they might be high on the list for a no spray garden....See MoreDo you love your home more or less since the confinement?
Comments (53)We started the pandemic at our winter house and are currently at our summer house. I love our townhouse in California. It's the smallest house I've lived in, but I got to renovate and decorate to my current taste. We were very comfortable there, but really bored staying in. All the projects have been done, landscape maintained by HOA, only a small patio with a few potted plants. Really easy to house clean. I spent hours and hours reading. All my usual activities there are outside the home. We are back at our lake house in PA. Always house projects to do. Vegetable and flower gardens to tend. I tend to be much more of a homebody here. I'm happy to poke around in my gardens and kayak out on the lake. I don't love this house as much. It has a somewhat awkward layout(fixed as much as we could when we reno'd). More of a mishmash of furniture styles. If it was up to me, I'd live in CA year round. But my DH loves it here so this is my 6 month compromise....See MoreTrue Passion...what's it like?
Comments (17)Would be a fun one to plant between Passionate Kisses and Sexy Rexy...pity the colors would clash! True passion in human terms is going through the ups, downs, trials, joys, kids, surgeries, moves, years, and all the rest of it, and still being blissfully crazy about each other and can't wait to see each other again no matter how short the separation. It's better than a fairy tale :)...See MoreDiane Brakefield
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