New Plants(Babies) are arriving for the season

Our new plant material is arriving for the season.  This week, we received our first of three shipments over consecutive weeks.  Time to start potting and placing the new plants in the greenhouse.  We have about 4200 plants this season which is down by about 1/3 from last year.  Most of our material will be grown in 4" pots with 15 plants per tray.  Larger plants call for more spacing between plants and less overall material.  Last season over 1/2 of our material was grown in with 36 plants in atray.  We will be purchasing some additional materials locally to round out our program.

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May 7th for our Annual Greenhouse Plant Sale

More details to come!

We are in the process of hiring a seasonal horticulturist to take over the day to day activities of our landscape program.  Our horticulture program has worked without a trained person since the late spring of 2008.  During some very difficult times for our club, we stepped up and provided some nice work in our landscape areas but there is some definite improvement that needs to be made to our ornamental program. 

I'm looking forward to the assistance and improvements that a horticulturist will bring to our beautiful clubhouse, surrounding grounds and golf course.  I will have an announcement early in the week once our new person is in place.

New plants placed in pots and waiting to be moved to the greenhouse.

Potting table with some blooming Cyclamen on the floor which will be placed in planters around the clubhouse for some early season color.