It’s Spring in the Greenhouses
We’ve been busily potting up perennial plugs for the last few weeks in our greenhouses. Even if Mother Nature says it’s not quite time for spring yet - it is definitely spring here!
We have brought in several new varieties of Heuchera this year. Heuchera is a part sun/part shade perennial that is classified in the “evergreen” variety (meaning you don’t prune it back in the fall) and offers a wonderful array of colors and textures to its leaves. They offer a tiny flower on a long stem during the season - it’s common name is “Coral Bells” but you use the Heuchera for its foliage value more.
Every perennial garden should have at least one clump of ornamental grass. Ornamental grass offers a backdrop to annuals or colorful flowering perennials or looks stunning by itself. Some varieties of ornamental grass provide visual interest all winter long as well. This is just one variety that was on the potting table this morning when I was out taking pictures. We typically carry about 20 varieties of ornamental grass.
We start about 1000 little “tissue culture” trees each spring. Here are some birch trees, some Prairiefire Crabapple and several varieties of maple trees. It is so much fun to see that little twig in a pot of dirt all of a sudden produce these little tiny colorful leaves when there is still snow outside on the ground!
Even though the weather forecast for tomorrow (our first full day of spring) is for 6 inches of wet, slushy snow - we just need to open one of the greenhouses for a taste of spring!
