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Hello All,
Here are the pictures of my back yard that I've been procrastinating over posting. Well at least by me taking my sweet time posting the pictures it gave everything time to fill in nice.
So here they are, if you guys have questions feel free to ask as I'm not going to label everything.
Driveway overflow area, Nana sago's, gardenias, butias, and nana starts for next year.
Heading into the backyard, there's a ton of plants here. Sorry if I didn't take that great of pictures I'm no photographer by any means. I'm sure I missed a bunch of plants, thinking about it the whole back right corner. Opps! I'll post them later.
Under my maple tree gets filtered light so it's a great place to keep the aucubas, lady palms, and alocasias
Hope everyone liked the pictures, I have some more pictures all uploaded and ready to go. I hoping I'll have time to throw them up tonight.
Bill
Posted : 29/06/2010 6:50 pm
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Almost forgot about some of the trachys, bad picture there are a ton of them I missed to the right.
Posted : 29/06/2010 6:54 pm
Amazing inventory!
Bill, I can't believe how healthy and robust your palms look. They look like they were wintered in Florida.
Good luck with the business!
Duncan
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Posted : 29/06/2010 7:01 pm
Bill,
I wish you were selling plants in my neighborhood!
The 'nanas look like Musa basjoo and Musella lasiocarpa, which I assume are hardy there.
Do your customers keep Butia and Trachy in pots or plant them? If the latter, are they used as annuals or do they protect them?
Also, are Aucuba hardy up there?
--Erik
Posted : 29/06/2010 7:17 pm
I can say that I have seen it in person and it's unbelievable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wish I could have smuggled a ton over the boarder! If I was Bill's neighbor I'd been broke!
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Posted : 29/06/2010 9:07 pm
Nice selection Bill! Excellent!
Posted : 30/06/2010 7:54 am
Everything looks great 8)
Good luck with your venture!
Steve
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Posted : 30/06/2010 12:22 pm
Bill that is a great selection you have there.Is a greenhouse in the plans? How are you advertising?I`m glad your not in my city as I would have some serious competition LOL. I never get tired of your updates.
John
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Posted : 30/06/2010 12:32 pm
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Thanks Guys! it's been fun so far for sure.
I most definitely need to do more advertising to get people here, next year will be a lot better organized that way. I'm heading to a gigantic flea market right out side of Providence RI this weekend for a few hours I think I'll do really well. Time will tell 😀
Eric,
Yeah the big nanas are basjoo and there are larciocarpas too, which should be fine here if protected right. I think I'm going to plant one or two of those Thai blacks today so I can see if there hardy here. I'd fell much better about selling them to people if I'd tried them. I really think I could pull of a orinoco too if it was one my south side, I don't think I have room though, I might have to try and squeeze on of them in somewhere to try. There's bordelons too, there not likely hardy here, but I'll try one why not.
As for the butias most people are potting them and bringing them inside somewhere as of my recommendation, there cheap enough for most people to use as annuals anyways. Plus if there going to do that I'll go and rescue them 😆 One guy is planting one in the ground along with a trachy, I should give him this site so he can start learning, I'm going to help him anyways.
John,
No green house here I'm waiting until we move for that, hopefully I'll be sold out for the most part so I'm not storing all this stuff in my Ghetto green house. I'll sell stuff for CHEAP if it's getting close to storage time.
Bill
Posted : 01/07/2010 10:40 am
Funny,I think everyone covered what I wanted to say/ask 😀
Are those the Black Thai bananas in the milk crates?
They are coming along nicely!
Those are some beautiful Sagos-I agree with Scotty,
"if I was Bill's neighbor,I'd be broke" 😯 😀 😀
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Posted : 01/07/2010 11:00 am
Damn! Look at all those plants! 😮
Are you gonna do mail order?
You've done it. Its a nursery, man! I can't find the time to go to the one a few miles away but you got one in your yard! 8)
Posted : 01/07/2010 4:26 pm
Jumpin' Jehosophat, that's F A B U L O U S, Bill 😀 😀 😀 😀
I wish you were selling plants in my neighborhood!
Me too!
You need acreage (preferrably near my house).
Otherwise you'll have to do a Search sweep at night to find the last customer 😆
Man, you've done a ton of work (and spent a s**t load of money!!).
I agree with the advertising (even with a website in Fall), the money'll come in faster.
Barb
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Posted : 01/07/2010 7:12 pm
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Yeah those are the Black thai nanas Jim, there growing very nicely. I'm giving some to try at there house to see how hardy they really are. Pretty bad when you run out of places to plant stuff and you have to do your experiments elsewhere 🙄 My mom loves it, there yard looks like a jungle too 😆
Jack I'm not sure on the mail order, probably next year. I will send stuff to people I know though. It is really nice having all of this stuff here in my yard like you said.
Acreage and advertising are two things I'm lacking for sure. This year is like the test year to see what happens, next year things are going to be much more organized. Plus I'm going to carry a lot of plants that will survive here too so I can take care of everyone. I'm having a great time though 😀
Bill
Posted : 03/07/2010 11:34 am
Bill, I think your biggest "test" will be to RESIST planting your own inventory 😆 😆
I bet you want to put half of them in the ground for yourself 8)
Barb
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Posted : 03/07/2010 1:11 pm
Bill, I think your biggest "test" will be to RESIST planting your own inventory 😆 😆
I bet you want to put half of them in the ground for yourself 8)Barb
Ain't that the truth 😛
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Posted : 03/07/2010 4:47 pm
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