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Post by traveler63 on Aug 25, 2009 23:02:53 GMT
We have a marvelous Nursery for plants here in Tucson. It is called Mesquite Valley Growers. Kirk and I started going to it many years ago when it was new and small. We had known Tom and Kathy from another one and so when they started theirs we moved with them. Kathy is a world class orchid grower and she has hundreds of them in her personal greenhouse. The place started as maybe a half acre and now it is probably 2-3 city blocks deep. Enjoy!
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 25, 2009 23:52:58 GMT
Oh ~~ that is my idea of HEAVEN, T63!
What a wonderful nursery. It's great the way it's personalized with color and adornments.
Isn't that Texas ranger in the next to the last picture?
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Post by imec on Aug 26, 2009 0:06:12 GMT
I can hang around garden centres for hours - and I don't even garden. The beauty of yours is also intensified by the backdrop of mountains. Only been to Tucson once - need to go back!
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Post by traveler63 on Aug 26, 2009 0:11:02 GMT
Bixa, yes I think so. We have them all over our complex and with the rain in the last few days they are starting to really bloom. Ours are all the light lavender color, the dark lavender I have seen in the last few days are in full bloom. When the ones close to us bloom a little more I will post a picture or two.
Imec, yes you should come back it really is nice , I have to admit and even with the heat.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2009 2:02:07 GMT
I am craving that orchid in the last picture I imagine that xeroscaping is pretty commonplace there with your water shortage. I've seen some brilliant gardens done out that way, years back ,using this technique.
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Post by traveler63 on Aug 26, 2009 2:12:12 GMT
Yes Casimira, people really do try to limit their water usage and there are so many places that sell drought tolerant plants. There is also a nursery just south of us called Civano and that is what they feature throughout their own nursery.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2009 5:10:18 GMT
Gardening centers are a vicarious thrill for me as well.
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Post by traveler63 on Aug 26, 2009 19:59:08 GMT
By the way guys and gals, I took the pix with my phone camera!!! and did nothing to them expect straighten them.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2009 20:00:58 GMT
You got yourself a lot of pixels in that camera, woman!
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Post by spindrift on Sept 11, 2009 16:39:28 GMT
T63 - may I put up some pictures on this thread that I took today at my local English nursery? or would that be confusing?
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 11, 2009 16:45:46 GMT
I took some of my local nursery Sunday, but they came out so poorly, I didn't post them. I would have put them in this thread, though. Did you see the thread I did on the orchid pavilion, Spindrift? I dithered about putting it in this thread, but decided it wasn't nursery enough to qualify.
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Post by spindrift on Sept 11, 2009 16:54:57 GMT
I'll have a look now, Bixa.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2010 10:50:08 GMT
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Post by Jazz on Apr 16, 2010 15:25:06 GMT
Gorgeous! I have spent months of my life hanging around nurseries. Having seen this, I may go today and immerse myself in the feeling of early spring. This seems to be a huge nursery.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2010 22:27:30 GMT
It is a fairly large nursery. I wish I could have spent more time there that day but,with the client,couldn't very well drag her around with me on her dime. Many of the even larger nurseries are now located over on the North shore of Lake Pontchartrain. There's a bamboo farm over there that I want to go back to soon. Is positively right out of Middle Earth it's so beautiful. Groves and groves of bamboo. I am in my element when going to these places but, do find that I lust way more than I can afford...
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 15, 2019 6:12:47 GMT
My lovely landlords took me to the most wonderful nursery in San Lorenzo Cacaotepec on Saturday. This was my second visit there and I was so excited to be going again. It's out of town in the direction of the Etlas. I will reiterate that the north part of Oaxaca has the most beautiful views, so that's reason enough to go out that way. But back to the nursery ~ One of the reasons I love the place is because every person who works there is knowledgeable about plants. Another is that the selection is so good. Yet another reason is a two-edged sword, to wit: the prices are so incredibly cheap that it's a real struggle for me to remember how little space I have & not just go hog wild in buying. It is so beautiful and pleasant to be there ~
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 15, 2019 19:07:59 GMT
Forgot to list the goodies I got ~
Parsley, coriander, & mint, six plants in all. A fig tree, Ficus edulis -- some kind of big purple-fruited variety. A silver dollar tree, Eucalyptus cinerea. Three different nerve plants, Fittonia albivenis (aka F. verschaffeltii?). Those I will plant at the base of a zebra plant, aphelandra squarrosa.
I also bought a cute little Anthurium -- miniature leaves & deep peach-colored flowers -- for my landlady & a giant croker sack full of potting soil for myself.
In tribute to Don Cuevas, I include the price here. Yes, I'm gloating, but the prices at this nursery are unheard-of cheap here as well: 313 pesos / $16.45 usd / 14.45 Euro
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Post by mickthecactus on Jan 15, 2019 19:15:05 GMT
Wossa silver dollar tree and a nerve plant?
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 15, 2019 19:17:42 GMT
eSweety-Pie ~ I put the botanical names next to them. Read, baby, read!
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Post by mickthecactus on Jan 15, 2019 21:08:06 GMT
eSweety-Pie ~ I put the botanical names next to them. Read, baby, read! I see now. I was confused.com.
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Post by mich64 on Jan 16, 2019 1:00:59 GMT
Excellent Bixa! What a happy successful day! I would be lucky to get the 6 herb plants for $20 let alone all of that you brought home!
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 16, 2019 1:43:36 GMT
Gosh ~ that is expensive! You ought to see my hands right now, after potting all that stuff up.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 16, 2019 11:14:51 GMT
Little potted herbs cost 1 or 1.50 euros each in my local supermarkets.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jan 16, 2019 11:24:19 GMT
Little potted herbs cost 1 or 1.50 euros each in my local supermarkets. That's what I buy and then plant them out.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 16, 2019 16:10:20 GMT
This nursery apparently sells to lots of people who re-sell the plants. There was a price scale on many items. For instance, the herbs were 12 pesos (.55 euros) apiece, but 6 for 50 pesos and 12 for 80.
One thing I don't like is how plants are crammed together in a pot, as though the seeds were all dropped in the middle. It makes for a nice presentation, but for a certain amount of shock to the plants as you pull them apart for re-potting.
A medium that is used in many nurseries here for plant starts is what I believe are Australian pine (Casuarina equisetifolia) leaves. Even cacti and succulents are planted in it. It appears to work, but still seems wrong to me.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 16, 2019 16:28:57 GMT
Herb cramming bothers me, too, but generally I just have to let them fight it out once I have repotted them. Half of the stalks die and the others take over.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jun 8, 2022 17:22:36 GMT
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Post by bjd on Jun 8, 2022 18:28:30 GMT
I find very odd that they sell tomato plants full of fruit. Here we see the last of the tomato plants in nurseries but they don't have flowers or small tomatoes.
My local garden centre (there are two opposite each other in fact) has just closed its Sunday morning opening. From late February until the end of May, they are open on Sunday mornings, but now it's considered that planting season is near its end for now so it's not worth keeping the place open on Sundays. I was in there yesterday and they had some wonderful hydrangeas in full bloom but I resisted buying more plants. It looks like we are going to have a hot dry summer so I won't buy anything else.
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Post by fumobici on Jun 8, 2022 19:15:35 GMT
I find very odd that they sell tomato plants full of fruit. Here we see the last of the tomato plants in nurseries but they don't have flowers or small tomatoes. If it's like here and you get a cool summer, they may be some of the few tomatoes you get in some of the more heat-loving varieties at least. A lot of the most common tomato and pepper types just won't thrive here unless you are gifted a warm, sunny growing season.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jun 8, 2022 19:49:15 GMT
The tomato plants were really novelties. Look closely at the picture and you will see the leaves are very strange and not like tomato leaves at all.
Ordinary tomato plants are still on sale but not for much longer I guess.
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