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Iris (iris)

One of my customers was thinning out a very congested bed of various iris varieties last year and gave me about 100 divisions. They'd all finished flowering so I had no idea what they were but potted them all up. This is the first to flower this year and I love it.



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Me too, beautiful..........

11 May, 2012

 

Wow - gorgeous!

11 May, 2012

 

Beautiful!

12 May, 2012

 

Really beautiful.

12 May, 2012

amy
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Very very nice Alan , 100 gosh you will be crowded out !

12 May, 2012

 

Indeed. I'm struggling to sell my plants at auction due to the bad weather. By this time last year I'd sold about 600. so far this year 50!

:^(

12 May, 2012

 

Things will pick up A.man I'm sure, the season is just a month later thats all!

12 May, 2012

 

Very nice.

12 May, 2012

 

Thanks for the kind words Grandmage.

I am seriously considering pulling out of the plant nursery business, at least as far as auction selling goes. My profit margins have almost halved in 3 years due to increases in pot,compost ,auction fees and other things.

If I get my minimum reserve I'm only clearing 13p per plant profit ( that's if they sell at all!) and these are plants that will sell for £2 -£4 in a market or garden centre.

It's not just my stuff. All the sellers at auction are saying the same

I'm going to give selling on Ebay a try but postage costs make plants bought that way expensive.. but it's worth a try

12 May, 2012

 

Do you get people passing by? - you could always try selling from a stall at the front of your house. I used to ride around in the countryside looking for plants for sale I am sure others would be doing the same. Maybe not though as the price of fuel is so high these days - maybe we are all internet shopping instead of driving around.

13 May, 2012

 

My main work now is as a gardener and the nursery has slowly become a smaller and smaller part of my income ( 20 years ago I was a full time nurseryman)

I live in a cul de sac village with very little passing trade although I do sell a few plants from my door.

My nursery isn't open to the public because I live alone and I'm out gardening for other people most of the time .

I think the nursery is coming to the end of its natural life although I will still propagate some things to sell at auction and maybe selling on the internet may work.

My vasic problem is lack of time. I'm doing 35 gardens a week for other people and by the time I've done that there's not much time orv energy left to do other stuff!

13 May, 2012



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