About an hour south in New Mexico, there’s a complex of 8 greenhouses that supply most of the garden centers in the region. It’s a wholesale operation with a few retail customers. I went with a wholesale account holder, making everything half price. (Mantra for the day: You have to spend money to save money. )
These are big greenhouses–this one has four aisles–and each of the hanging plants has it’s own drip from a water line along the ceiling.
One greenhouse is filled with babies. The rest of the greenhouses are filled with eye-popping arrays of horticultural pulchritude.
The greenhouse sells a to-the-trade item I’ve never had access to: six-packs of perennials that garden centers pot up to resell at a premium. What a score! Between the two of us, we filled the car.
What is it about the sexual organs of plants that drives women wild?
I AM SOOO ENVIOUS! YOU WOULD BE AMAZED AT WHAT WE HAVE TO PAY FOR ANNUALS AND PERENNIALS HERE ON MARTHA’S VINEYARD! NOT TO MENTION FOOD AND GAS! HAPPY PLANTING!
Oh, but MV Pat, we are sooo envious that your are on Martha’s Vineyard. I’ve always (and I mean always!!) wanted to visit there. But then, I want to visit Durange too!!
Soooooo many places to visit, soooooo little time (and money - not to mention food & gas prices!! Ha! Ha!)
Wow. I’m SO not a plant person, but I do love walking through greenhouses and wishing I was!! It’d be so cool to tour a place like that!
So what perennials did you purchase ?
Man oh man did I purchase. Flats of lavender, echinacea, russian sage, wooly thyme for starters. Lots more too–Bob just irrigated a big new bed and it’s mulched, so it’s time to be filled.