Crop 245 Picture Newsletter by andyvancleve of www.floweringshrubfarm.com Similar to a slide show, I add more comments, pictures and hyperlinks practically every day throughout AUGUST. Click on the picture and it may open a larger version with more detail. Check this page again for changes as I add pictures taken all month at the Flowering Shrub Farm in Voorheesville, NY. I like to hear your comments so please email me and subscribe if you haven't already. More explanation at the bottom of this page.

Pictures of Flowers and fruit taken throughout August 2009 and still being added.

00000ballerina080509small.jpg Propagation plant that I expect to have more own root plants of soon.

00000basyespurple080509small.jpg Propagation plant we are growing a couple own root that may be available soon. Watch the picture collection of available plants linked from the hyperlink above (I'll add pictures as the plants flower).

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00000frudagmarhastrup080509small.jpg Propagation plant

10547henrykelsey080509small.jpg Extremely hardy and disease resistant it may still drop its leaves in summer if you let it get to dry.

10792bellepoitevine080509small.jpg One of my new plants own root of course that I took as a cutting in 2005. Not quite ready yet.

10897bellepoitevine080509small.jpg Another of my cuttings from 2005 that I'm training. When its available it will be placed on the Belle Poitevine Page.

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00000lilacsinfield080809small.jpg This will be added to the growing page at www.floweringshrubfarm.com/growing.htm

00000cityofyork080109small.jpg 'City of York' is considered by many the best wichuriana rambler. This faded flower isn't such a prime example except to show that it does repeat later in the season. There's a fantastic display in June.

00000contedechambord080109small.jpg This Portland Rose 'Comte de Chambord' is a little more disease susceptible than most of our plants. If you click on the picture and look in the back ground left at the leaves you can see how much spotting it has. Of course this is with no fungicide whatsoever.

00000helenehibiscus080109small.jpg The problem I have with growing Hibiscus syriacus like these is that the plants, hardy to zone 5, cant be grown in pots (root hardiness for a plant hardy to zone 5 and growing in zone 5 needs more protection than a pot gives). So I have to plant in the ground and disturb the roots more when I transplant into a large pot.

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00000queenannslace080109small.jpg This wildflower, brought here by colonists from Europe has much necter to provide for my beneficial insects.

00000staymanwinesapfruit080109small.jpg Considered by many, including me to be just about the most perfect eating apple once its ripe which it isn't yet. We usually eat most of ours as apple sauce but I'm training a few trees to espalier and will either have espalier trained trees in the future to sell or maybe the fruit grown organically.

10139rosderescht080109small.jpg Just about the ideal portland.

10552roseraiedelhay080109small.jpg This hard to find rugosa has many of its qualities shared by the much more obtainable 'Hansa'.

10555prairieprincess080109small.jpg An extremely hardy and disease resistant, hybrid tea like rose that is not a hybrid tea.

10555prairieprincess080509small.jpg A slightly different shape of the same flower several days later.

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10594leverkusen080109small.jpg Some people have suggested this doesn't repeat bloom but I assure them it does. Hardy and disease resistant, a short climber that has a strong fragrance and flush blooms from new growth. I feed it with Rose Tone and Dehydrated manure once a month until August 1. Remove the faded flowers but not within 6 weeks of frost. In spring I wait until leaves have formed, then remove dead wood only while tyeing in vagrant branches.

10718cornelia080109small.jpg Hybrid musk

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I take pictures in my nursery all year of the shrub, flower, fruit, fall foliage of the plants along with other stuff and then post them in my newsletter. Each newsletter is presented in real time similar to a slide show (or thats the plan anyway). At the beginning of each month I'll start an issue with pictures that have links to larger versions and send a link to the issue to my subscribers. Every several days I'll add some pictures, comments or links to other pages. Many of the pictures will be of the inventory type with the date the picture was taken within the picture. Each inventory picture is saved using a file name that starts with the inventory number of the actual plant either for sale or in the garden for propagation, ending with the date. Simply by saving the picture without the date will overwrite the picture in a crop page for that variety alone. Potential Customers subscribe and I send a link to them from the latest picture-newsletter. When they see something they like they come buy it in bloom. Subscribers also send me an email after they purchased a plant telling me what they got and in exchange for subscribing and sending that email may receive some warranty protection.

We grow plants to sell at our plant sale. Read my notes on the zone hardiness numbers I use. Do we do mail order? Check my picture-newsletter Want to purchase? email me.