Howdy all. Is all the greenery not divine? The top picture is my very own greenhouse - plugs brought home (lantana, geranium, purple african daisies and spirit violeta) - gosh I could not resist even though it is two months till we can plant outside AND it snowed yesterday and is crappy out there today. So the three surviving primroses given to us when we first started at the Greenhouse had to come in from beside the garage. They apparently (primroses) like cool but sunny. That has been our outside weather of late and they seemed to like being outside better than in.
The main greenhouse photo shows the 'main' house of the greenhouse. Here is where we plant things up. We get trays of plugs (200/500 plugs per tray - come from BC - cheaper in the long run then to grow all your own from seed these days they say) Trays/plants are delivered - we receive the order/check that all plants are there - then we lay them on tables to later divide (cut the trays - they are like 'ice cube' trays of different sizes..)for wholesale or retail orders. We label them with numbers that correspond to what kind of plant they are - then usually put them in numerical order so we can later pick from said plants for people's orders. A lot of shuffling goes on - from one table to another. The joke is we do the 'Schriemers Shuffle' (I set the words to 'do the hustle').
We also help plant plugs into containers that are for Schriemer's to sell for the season. I work in the Annuals Department (there is a nursery dpt/front end/cashier/retail/and perennial dpt and other dpts I prob. don't know about- it is quite the place..) Once the plugs are planted for Schriemers to sell they have a monorail or carts or heck, just our hands, to carry plants to tables to sell or to put in the attached greenhouses to grow and prosper till we can put them out.
Today is the first day that the Greenhouse plugs were available to the general public. So it will most likely be a zoo. I'm glad to be home baking cookies and getting cabana-stuff done. I've put in my share of working wknds thanks ;).
As we get closer to the May long wknd (basically gardening 'D' Day)more plants will be available and snapped up by giddy gardeners!
I had to post some of the garden chatchkes they sell - I love the ceramic mushrooms....tea cups cool (imagine a nice cuppa moss or something in there?/green tea HA) - and the pig watering can. Water out a pigs nose. I think kidlets would enjoy that one most as it would take you a long time to water fleurs with those wee pig nostrils. What a hoot. They have 'gorg' big ceramic pots of all sizes and colors - I like the super-big ones. The glazes are amazing. Of course the flowers. The trays come in with very 'wee' plants but in the greenhouse they soon start to grow fast! The pictures of the flowering plants were wholesale plugs that came in two weeks or so ago.......The picture of the circle of little flowers - that plant is 'Lantana' - Love it and smells yum. I picked up some of that (orange and a multi-colored fleur) for my own greenhouse. The lime green 'grassy' looking stuff is a perennial moss that you can walk on and such.....the perennial peeps had put some of their plants closer to our side o the greenhouse and so some of the pic's are of perennials.
I eagerly await pansies to plant once most of the blustery-ness passes - will also talk 'grand gardening plan' to Huzzy and see what he hunkers after. I won't forget about you Huzzy. It is just exciting. Very exciting.
Enjoy lovelies and have yourselves a greening April day...........
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perhaps that should be 'Gardening 'G' Day' ha
the picture with the clock and gray board - that is where we punch in and out (like fred flinstone)- our time cards are kept on the gray board as are our name tags - it is in the staff room/lunch room.
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