Azalea House Flowering Shrub Farm

Voorheesville, NY 12186 Home Page

We grow plants that are heirloom, hardy, disease resistant and fragrant (pictures of everything we grow in our catalogs below) including roses, lilacs, native azaleas and blueberry bushes to sell during our Retail Plant Sale, Mail Order or by appointment.

Subscribe to my picture-newsletter. When the plants flower, I take closeup pictures that day, post them on a web page with current availability information and send a link to all my subscribers. My customers subscribe because "smart buyers, buy it in bloom!"

Clicking the picture should send you to a catalog of similar plants. If some of these pictures don't open you should click here

Old Garden Roses & Modern Roses & Lilacs like 'Andenken an Ludwig Spaeth' (1880)

Native species Pinxterbloom Azalea & Native Blueberry bushes

Hybrid Rugosa Roses like 'Roseraie de l'Hay' (1901) & Disease Resistant Modern Roses like 'Geranium' (1930)

If some of these pictures don't open you should click here

Labels is where we post pictures of flowers on plants with inventory labels.

email me or leave a message at (518) 765-2917. To become a customer you should sign up for the picture-newsletter to be notified what & when plants are for sale (read below).

Alba, Gallica, Damask, Centifolia, Portland or Wild and disease resistant Modern Roses that share many of the qualities of the old roses Rugosa, Kordesii, Moyesii, Ramblers & Climbers.

Lilac catalog Classic Lilacs (mostly purple, magenta, violet and lavender but we have some with pink, blue or white flowers) introduced between 1880 and 1972. We grow them into 7 gallon pots, 15 gallon pots and 45 gallon pots.

Blueberry bush catalog Blueberry bushes (Vaccineum corymbosum) that are named selections of Native highbush blueberry bushes. One Blue Ray, one Blue Jay and one Blue Crop grown together in a 3 gallon pot and trained as a single plant with full cross pollination.

Peony catalog Peonies, Paeonia; I grow old herbaceous perennial peonies into gradually larger and larger pots. I only devide the real monster sized ones and then grow them to monster size. 3 gallon pot size.

Rhododendron catalog Native Pinxterbloom Azalea (R. nudiflorum), Swamp Azalea (R. viscosum) and Rosebay Rhododendron (R. maximum) in a 3 gallon pot for $30.

Spiraea catalog Were growing Candle light Spiraea or Spiraea bumalda 'Candle light'

Espalier catalog Apple tree's and Pear trees that have been started as espalier and pictures of mature Belgian Fence, Living Fence and Fans.

Insects or how we deal with pest control at the Flowering Shrub Farm

What we do and when we do it with pictures.

The Picture-Newsletter Old newsletters are added to this catalog. We dont sell plants until they begin to flower. So customers have to know when plants are in bloom. They subscribe to the newsletter and when plants start blooming I post pictures of the flowers, add comments and send a link to the page. A couple weeks later i label the page on the the picture-newsletter page. Later in the year I include pictures of fruit and fall foliage. When we're transplanting or doing other nursery maintenence tasks, I photograph those things for a newsletter as well. Picture Newsletter #193 An introduction to the picture-newsletter.

Deer protection for arborvitae Pegging a rose

Use this picture of the D & H Railroad tracks in Voorheesville as Wallpaper.

Generally the USDA hardiness zones for the area around Albany, NY are; in Albany itself there seems to be a micro-climatic region of zone 5b (-15 to -10 F), surrounded by zone 5A (-20 to -15 F), Just North of Albany in Saratoga it seems to be zone 4b (-25 to -20 F), Down in NYC is zone 6A (-10 to -5 F) and 6b (-5 to 0 F), Manhatten seems to be zone 7a (0 to 5 F). There is a link below in the red section to The US National Arboretum Zone Map.

Alphabetized links below

AMERICAN SPECIES AZALEA & RHODODENDRON Rhododendrons, native rhododendron species, Rhododendrons A to Z, Pinxterbloom Azalea,

BLUEBERRY or VACCINEUM Native blueberry or Vaccineum corymbosum,

CALENDAR Local Garden Calendar

ESPALIER espalier, own root antique apples, growing page

freelist

HEATHS AND HEATHERS or CALLUNA Heaths and Heathers,

LILACS Lilacs, Shelterbelts, Hedges, Lilac Walks and Privacy barriers, Lilacs A to Z, Lilac hybridizers and their introductions

NEWSLETTER Local Garden Newsletter Local Garden Newsletter

ROSES Roses, Old Roses Roses A to H, Roses I to M Roses N to Z , large roses in a simple fashion.

ROSE OF SHARON or HIBISCUS Rose of Sharon or Hibiscus syriacus,

Restaurant Giovanni's

SERVICEBERRY or AMELANCHIER Amelanchier canadensis, Serviceberry or shadblow,

SPIRAEA Spiraea,

ARBORVITAE arborvitae,

VIBURNUM Viburnum

OTHER Shade tolerant plants including roses and rhododendrons Zone 3 or hardier Zone 4 or hardier Zone 5 or hardier

What zone are you? Try the US National Arboretum Zone Map.

We grow without fungicide and use a combination of Permaculture, Natural, Organic and Scientific cultural methods as outlined in one of my web pages.

Links that are of particular interest to my extended family probably include; my father and vancleve. And a little unusual check out sayings. There is also a picture of Dad on my daytrip page.

Allinks Apple Applebuy Arborbuy Arborvitae buying Arnold Arboretum August to September Azalea House Flowering Shrub Farm Alexander Mackenzie Rose page apple and cherry http://www.floweringshrubfarm.com/avirtual.htm

Beatles Blueberries We Grow Buying Rhododendrons Buying Roses Best Link page

Calendar Choosing Classic Roses Climbing Roses Contacts Chrysanthemums, Card and Contact page.

Daytrip Deer Designing Your Own Garden A key to finding diagrams in books that help you with pruning and training. diary garden design

Edible Edible Gardening Espalier espalier edible, Email me electronic watercolor

Forest Gardening French Lilacs fruit trees and vegetables,

Garden George Landis Arboretum Grafting Growing garden design, & Grafting

Hardy to Zone 3 or colder Hardy to Zone 4 or colder Hardy to zone 5 or colder Hibiscus Home

Index Insects Intro Introduction to our Retail Plant Store Insects,

June to July July to August Journal

Labels LILACS Lilacbuy Lilacs A to Z Lilac pictures List Local Garden Newsletter with pictures. lilac

May to June Minekill State Park Mums The Word My Father Mums The Word,

New Resident Newsletter Notes on Rose Pruning

Old Roses

Picture Links Pinxterbloom Plantbuy PLANTING Plant it Porch Design Propagate Propagation Pruning Pruning Roses plantit. Propagation, List of Portland Roses on 032808, pictures

Questions and Comments Quick Links

Railroad Crossings Reproduction RESEARCH Rhododendrons Rhododendron buying Rose Article ROSES Rosebuy Rose buying Rose: Classic and their hybrids Rose Pictures Rose Pruning Roses of zone 3 or cold hardier only Rugosa Roses rhododendrons, roses, Reproduction , Roses, Rose Guide Roses A to H, Roses I to M Roses N to Z or Lilacs A to Z Rambling

Saratoga Battlefield Sayings Self Design Shadbuy Shelter Belt Site Selection Soil Spiraea Starting Sustain Syringa site, soil

Things Mom Said When Mad 'Tis The Season Test Page Talking

Van Cleve Family Vegetable Gardening Volcano

Walk Wine Wine,

Yaddo You See Me

Zone 3 or hardier Zone 4 or hardier Zone 5 or hardier

My main home page from which you will find a link to a catalog from which there are links to pictures is at www.floweringshrubfarm.com  An introduction to my growing methods (I am a grower) is at www.floweringshrubfarm.com/growing.htm   We sell plants during the plant sale at www.floweringshrubfarm.com/intro.htm   We do a little mail order at www.floweringshrubfarm.com/mail.htm   andyvancleve

Letter to our customers.

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