With a hand full of kumquats, we said our goodbyes to Dr. Bill and Lucille Welch in College Station. Rebecca jumped on the offer to have some, and Dr.Welch quickly helped. You might be surprised to see a citrus plant living, growing, and maturing in the middle parts of the South. Well, in case you [...]
Gardening in the Cracks
Had a good bulb hunt today but the pics weren’t that exciting (I’ll post the pics once I filter through them). What I did enjoy was the reseeding annuals I saw popping up in the cracks of a cement drive way. I knew petunias would do this but I didn’t know a salvia (the blue [...]
Cookies and Crinums
Rebecca and I made it to College Station and had some delightful cookies waiting for us. We devoured them next to a simple arrangement of a crinum with Confederate jasmine as the base. The fragrance is wonderful and the brevity of the design is even more refreshing. The crinum is ‘Diane Welch’ selected/bred by Greg [...]
Easter Lilies…in May?
My good friend and co-author of an upcoming book this fall, Dr. Bill Welch, took some pictures of his blooming Easter lilies in College Station today. They are from Pam Puryear, an original “Texas Rose Rustler” among many other things and you can read her biography here. She passed away in 2005. Dr. Welch has [...]
I’ve heard about the robots for awhile now, and I was amazed to finally see what they were doing at Flowerwood Nursery down in Alabama. One of the biggest expenses in a nursery is consolidating the plants after they’ve been picked through. For example, out of 1,000 plants, not all of them are great plants. [...]
Harvest Time!
We’ve begun to harvest our main rows of oxblood lilies and the crop is really looking great. Most of them were up by the morning. It’s getting to be the time of year where a bulb exposed in the direct sun for more than an hour can cook it right away. Oxbloods can be especially [...]
Rebecca and I watched the final episode of “The Office” tonight. It’s been a show we watched on again off again for the last several years, and for the most part we’ve enjoyed it. It really made me think sentimentally about the times we all had in the beginning of The Southern Bulb Company in 2004-2006., [...]
Stolen Bulbs…Police Called
Let this be a reminder to all of you bulb hunters out there….always ask for permission! For years I had eyed a particular group of hardy amaryllis in a garden in Mineola, TX. When I saw an estate sale go up for the house, I thought that it would be a perfect time to buy [...]
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