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Hope Springs Nursery
67 N Knapp Ct
Hopewell Junction, NY 12533
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With Thanks
Lottah Nursery, Charles Holetich, Bruce Peart and Margaret Walton, and Tatiana Polyakova for the generous use of their gorgeous photos.
Happy New Year!
We are now accepting pre-orders. Take 10% off all orders placed before February 28 with code SPRINGSALE.
Shipping will begin on March 20 - weather permitting here in New York.
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Yesterday I pruned last year’s cuttings so they start branching this year. The plants look good, so I am going to update the website this week and start shipping before they leaf out much more and start actively growing. Less stress on the plants during shipping. These mostly look like brown sticks right now. But soon they’ll have a foot of new growth! The big stock plants look great, other than a little deer nibbling.
What a beautiful day. We cleaned up the snow fence and leaves, got the riding mower and carts out of the collapsed portable garage, moved the two blocks of stock plants and got the leaves out of the pots, and sprayed Liquid Fence since those cute deer have been nibbling. 🤬 Next week we have to replace the garage since it collapsed during the last snowstorm. The fun never ends here...
I’ve been laminating new signs since the ones from two years ago are pretty faded now. So I got the ones that are finished into the sign holders and have more cutting and laminating to do tonight - if I last that long. I tried to rake up under the oak tree, because I have some wildflower seeds that the crematorium sent with Pogo, Itty Bitty and Pooh Baby. But the ground is still too wet. Maybe next weekend.
I'm so grateful to Mark and Julio for returning for another season of torture! I couldn’t do it without them.
By the way, the plants look pretty good so far.
Yesterday the gang was covered up. Today they are uncovered! Not much to see yet. I hope we can start cleaning up the leaves and whatnot this weekend. The white plastic will stay on the sides of the hoop houses so we can re-cover fairly easily if it looks like frost. I’m doing my best to prevent frost damage this year!
Why I don’t take orders now, here’s why. My babies are covered for the winter. That’s them under these two mounds!
After a dismal, discouraging, disheartening spring with unseasonable cold, frosts and snow in April and May which resulted in severe damage to many of the plants, not to mention the CO-VID situation, and shipping delays, I'm proud to say that I've bounced back pretty well. The plants look great in the new potting mix I switched to in March. My first-time collaboration with another lilac colleague to take cuttings from her plants didn't go as well as I hoped this summer due to the learning curve with the new fogging system and the electronic leaf, but I did get some of them to root and we're very optimistic about next year. In a couple of years we both will have more rare varieties to offer in very limited quantities, like 'Hugo Koster', 'Joan Dunbar', 'Ruhm von Horstenstein', 'Paul Hariot', 'P.P. Konchalovsky', and 'Azurea Plena', to name a few. So I keep plugging along with my dream to make more lilac varieties readily available to the public. Wish me luck! And buy a lilac!
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Hope Springs Nursery
67 N Knapp Ct
Hopewell Junction, NY 12533
Email:
With Thanks
Lottah Nursery, Charles Holetich, Bruce Peart and Margaret Walton, and Tatiana Polyakova for the generous use of their gorgeous photos.
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