Feb 15 2010
Last Friday we received our first shipment of liners from Raker. The shipment included 46 Sonic Lilac New Guinea Impatiens, 128 Summer Carnivval Mixed Alcea, and 128 Camelot Mixed Hollyhocks. Whenever we have ordered from Raker (through Harris as their Broker) we have been delighted with the apparent care in packing and handling the seedlings. They arrived in a very sturdy carton via FedEx. They are well-watered so even in the event they are stuck on a warehouse platform for some time, the baby plants will not dry out. The plants are sturdy even though they are seedings that are only 1 to 2 inches tall with the exception of the New Guinea Impatiens. Those we ordered as rooted cuttings, so they were more leafed out but still about 2 inches tall uniformly.

We spent Sunday potting up the New Guineas and all the foxgloves; they currently reside in the Baby Plant Nursery pictured in previous posts. You can also see additional pictures of Hunters Acres on our website, which is currently under construction but due to go online by sometime in March. There I just set another deadline for myself! As if I didn’t have enough. But as soon as it’s online you will be able to reach it at http://huntersacresllc.com . The website will carry garden tips for our area of Central Florida, and I plan to expand to include gardening instruction for various U.S. zones as we have lived in such diverse areas as Zone 5 (upper midwest), the varied climates of Southern California through the various altitudes and those areas on sides of mountains that determine whether or not your garden will get any rain. Now we’re in a subtropical area in Central Florida that has its own sets of gardening challenges. But we keep on trying and learning, and as we do we will pass along those learnings from our Central Florida Garden.