Azalea House Flowering Shrub Farm
in Voorheesville, NY 12186. 15:06
old garden roses, classic lilacs, native azaleas, espalier trained fruit trees, blueberry bushes, rose of sharon
If the pictures above dont open you should click here !
I grow plants that are locally HARDY, DISEASE RESISTANT, VIGOROUS and FRAGRANT to sell during our Retail Plant Sale , Mail Order or by Appointment. We grow Classic Lilacs including double flowered extremely fragrant french lilacs, many lilacs with either double or single flowers that are purple, magenta, violet or lavender colored and a few of the best lilacs that have pink or white flowers. Disease Resistant Roses including; Alba Roses, Gallica Roses, Damask Roses, Centifolia Roses, Hybrid Rugosa Roses, Climbing Roses & Rambler Roses, roses with small flowers, Old Garden Roses mentioned in literature. Native Azaleas and Rhododendrons including Pinxterbloom azalea or R. nudiflorum / R. periclymenoides, Swamp azalea or R. viscosum and Rosebay rhododendron or R. maximum, and Hibiscus syriacus with double flowers. We also grow many hardy Blueberry Bushes including native blueberry V. corrymbosum (Highbush Blueberry) and V angustifolium (Lowbush Blueberry) and Espalier Trained fruit Trees including; Belgian Fence, Step over or Horizontal T trained Apple and Pear trees. Check out pictures taken around the nursery during the following months (we are open May, June and July). January February March April May 1 to 15 May 16 to 31 June week #1 June week #2 June week #3 June last days July August September October November December Pictures of us doing chores We only sell Lilacs and Roses that are in bloom or have previously bloomed. Contact me!
Pictures above are Front of House during Lilac Sale in May, Front of House during Disease Resistant Rose Sale in June, Click for a larger image.
My Growing Page is a collection of pictures from the picture-newsletter showing us working in the fields growing the many varieties of ornamental plants that we sell. I have written about what we are doing in each picture, but as I remove pictures and add new ones continually it can get somewhat out of order. So I cut and paste the most important stuff at the top.
Please come during daylight hours when its not raining and give me a call on my cell phone at 518-526-9101 so I have maximum time to walk in from the fields, finish my breakfast etc.
All plant orders www.floweringshrubfarm.com/orders.htm
We have two apartments that we rent out that help us pay the taxes, surrounded by the activity and plants of our sustainable nursery www.floweringshrubfarm.com/apartmen.htm
ALL PICTURE NEWSLETTER
People track what I am doing, how plants are growing and what's new by checking the pictures in my newsletter. I add new pictures of each crop of plants we are growing, closeups of flowers or fruit on plants for sale, and pictures out front like above, to the picture-newsletter almost every day. Click on this month below to see what the nursery and plants look like. Click other months to see what they looked like then.
January February March April May 1 to 15 May 16 to 31 June 1 to 7 June 8 to 14 June 15 to 21 June 22 to 30 July August September October November December More
INVENTORY & LEVEL OF GROWTH
www.floweringshrubfarm.com/current.htm
Current Inventory of plants for the most recent month. Each month I continue to do inventory by taking a picture of the sign I have among plants in the field or at the plant sale (I will only show pictures taken during the current month, for others you should check the catalog). If we currently sell the plant the available quantity is shown on a colored dot on the sign (green dot means its in a 7 gallon pot for $30, yellow is in a 15 gallon for $50). No colored dot? Not for sale, but another picture will show either a closeup of the flower or the plants growing in the field (so you might evaluate when I will have them for sale). If there is only 1 its not for sale but will be used to propagate more (check next year). We only sell Lilacs and Roses when they are blooming or have bloomed proving the variety.
French Lilacs with extremely fragrant double flowers , Lilacs with purple, lavender, violet or magenta flowers , the best of other lilacs with flowers that are white, pink or multicolored.
Pictures are over-written frequently during the growing season so you can see how large the plants have grown or how close they are to being sold during the plant sale. All plants of the same variety are gathered together in a group with a sign among them that shows the crop number and the date the inventory picture was taken. When you click on the inventory picture it should open a larger version where its easier to see the days date on a pink label and how many plants we had as of that date noted on a green dot (again remember to reload so you are sure its the most recent picture).
I am testing more plants all the time. This year I have been testing; 'Seven Sisters' Rambler Rose, Trier Rambler Rose, Tausendschon Rambler Rose, 'Williams Double Yellow' Shrub Rose. They survived the winter of 2010-2011 in 7 gallon pot-in-pot. Now I am potting them in 25 gallon pots to see how they overwinter in 2011-2012. You should check to see what the flower looks like in June.
Crops in numerical order by Crop number.
This years Rose Order at www.floweringshrubfarm.com/roseorde.htm
We sell Lilacs and Roses that are in bloom or have previously bloomed (proving to me at least that its the right color).
Besides, smart people buy plants in bloom.
And we are growing many varieties that will bloom in a few more years. Every year I add hundreds of Purple and/or French lilacs in many different varieties.
A French Lilac is any double flowered variety of Syringa vulgaris. A French Hybrid on the other hand can be any variety that is descended from a French Lilac, was introduced in France or has a French name. I'd rather have the French Lilac with double flowers.
So the best time to buy lilacs is in May
and the best time to buy roses is in June (or you can trust my labels and come when they aren't in bloom).
We sell Hibiscus syriacus 'Colly Mullen' by appointment in July or the beginning of August when they are in bloom.
If you aren't sure when to come follow the newsletter.
I am disabled in my hands and cant write legibly. So I am designing the inventory process to be easy for someone with disabilities similar to mine.
OUR MICRO NURSERY AT 40 VOORHEESVILLE AVE, VOORHEESVILLE, NY 12186
Albany County is within Zone 5 but surrounded by Zone 4. We grow our plants outdoors without fungicide in several locations around Voorheesville, then bring them to 40 Voorheesville Ave after they start blooming. Plants that aren't tolerant of local conditions die within the several years that we grow them before they become available for sale. Much of my year has to be spent propagating plants so I am available to sell plants only from May 15 to July 4; 10 AM to 2 PM or by appointment. To make an appointment leave a message on the answering machine at (518) 765-2574 or Email me. You can also call me on my cell phone at 518-526-9101. Be sure to leave your phone number so I can call you back. My cell phone number is posted on signs among our plants so that when you need me you can call me from wherever I have wandered off to (Is he in the greenhouse? Maybe having coffee at Stewarts next door? Perhaps he is having lunch across the street at the Voorheesville Diner?). I appreciate you coming during daylight hours when its not raining and giving me a call on my cell phone at 518-526-9101 before you arrive so I have maximum time to show up.
SMART PEOPLE BUY PLANTS IN BLOOM
So watch the Pictures in my Newsletter to know when the plant you want is in bloom and then come and buy it. As plants are sold I remove the yellow inventory label, staple the orange price label to it and stick it in my pocket. By adding up the prices on the red label I can figure out how much I made and how much sales tax I owe.
Below are Roses in Alphabetical order I am working on.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Below this line is for me.
We are growers of hard to find plants that we sell retail at reasonable prices. I show pictures of the plants growing in the field, over wintering in pot-in-pot storage or grouped together at the plant sale so you have an idea of how large they are, how many I have, and when I will be having them at the plant sale. When plants start to flower I show pictures of the plants flowering that are large enough so you can save it as wallpaper or examine more closely.
New Sign is a page I have created for the printers of my plant signs.
CATALOGS OF WHAT I AM PROPAGATING & GROWING
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. you can Email me and ask if I have any left.
American Azalea catalog Native Pinxterbloom Azalea (R. nudiflorum), Swamp Azalea (R. viscosum) in a 3 gallon pot for $30.
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.
Espalier catalog Apple tree's and Pear trees that have been started as espalier and pictures of mature Belgian Fence, Living Fence and Fans.
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.
Spiraea catalog Were growing Candle light Spiraea or Spiraea bumalda 'Candle light'
email me or leave a message at (518) 765-2574. To become a customer you should sign up for the picture-newsletter to be notified what & when plants are for sale (read below).
We dont usually 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 add a link from my index page. So those who subscribe get earlier information. 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.
CROPS BEING STARTED
50 151) 'BLUECROP' Vaccinium corymbosum Highbush blueberry Blueberry bushes being planted 3 to a pot, each pot of 3 for sale at $30.
200 'PINXTERBLOOM' Azalea being planted 3 to a pot, each pot of 3 for sale at $30.
Several Rambler Roses and one Old Garden Rose that will be potted and I'll take cuttings from them in July. 56) 'SEVEN SISTERS' Old multiflora Rambler Rose , 119) Trier , 120) Tausendschon , 170 'Williams Double Yellow'
Lilacs to be field grown until they flower includes; 81) 'DARK NIGHT' , #74 'LAVENDER LADY' , #72 'NADEZHDA' , 113) 'POCAHONTAS' , #73 'PURPLE GLORY' , 110) ROYALTY LILAC
And of course there are a bunch of plants being brought in from the fields that bloomed last year that will be for sale this year just watch the newsletter in May and June of 2010.
Whenever I create a page I place a link to it below in alphabetical order (this is more for me than for you). There's all kinds of stuff here that I may not have updated in a long time.
Deer protection for arborvitae
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
HEATHS AND HEATHERS or CALLUNA Heaths and Heathers, Hedge Pictures
LILACS growlila Lilacs, Shelterbelts, Hedges, Lilac Walks and Privacy barriers, Lilacs A to Z, Lilac hybridizers and their introductions Lilac in field pictures from newsletter
NEWSLETTER Local Garden Newsletter Local Garden Newsletter
ROSES Roses, Old Roses List of Roses with white flowers Roses A to H, Roses I to M Roses N to Z , large roses in a simple fashion Scottish
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.
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 American Monarchy 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 Big & Fat cars
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 Growcrop
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
Picture Links Pinxterbloom Plantbuy PLANTING Plant it Porch Design Propagate Propagation Pruning Pruning Roses plantit. Propagation, List of Portland Roses on 032808, pictures propagation.
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 , Scottish ,
Things Mom Said When Mad 'Tis The Season Test Page Talking Transplanting
Van Cleve Family Vegetable Gardening Volcano
Zone 3 or hardier Zone 4 or hardier Zone 5 or hardier
roses , lilacs , native azaleas , pinkster azalea , native blueberry bushes , spiraea , apple tree espalier ,
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.
andyvancleve
Purple flowering plants , yellow flowering plants
Inventory pages
ROSE INVENTORY PAGES edited 2010
inv#012 or Rose inventory #12 11176 to 11199plant sale
INV013 Rose inventory#13 11352 to 14000
LILAC INVENTORY BELOW
INVENTORY#12 Lilacs at plant sale May 4, 2010
INV#13 for May 11, 2010 Lilacs Sensation & Krasavitsa moskvy
INV#14 for May 12, 2010 #11450 to #11467 Purple or Pink Lilacs in the field
INV#16 inventory pictures taken July 13, 2010 of Lilacs, Hybrid Rugosa Magnifica and Espalier.
INV#15 for May 2010 Inventory of Espalier Trained Trees
INV0016 Inventory #16 of roses flowering in 2010
You can also go to each of my main catalogs where I publish pictures (taken from the newsletter) that are updated each month of each crop of plants I am growing for retail sale; LILACS, ROSES, AZALEAS, SPIRAEA, NATIVE PLANTS, BLUEBERRY BUSHES and ESPALIER TRAINED TREES
NATIVE AZALEAS including Pinxterbloom, Swamp and Flame (check for pictures of what you want) ,
ESPALIER TRAINED; TREES & EDIBLE FRUIT PLANTS
PICTURES OF PLANTS GROWING NATIVE PLANTS,
ALL PICTURE NEWSLETTER
People track what I am doing and what new plants I may have for sale by checking my newsletter. I add new pictures of flowers, fruit and foliage of the plants we grow to the picture-newsletter almost every week. Click on this month below to see what the nursery and plants look like. Click other months to see what they looked like then. You can also go to each of my main catalogs where I publish pictures (taken from the newsletter) that are updated each month of each crop of plants; LILACS, ROSES, AZALEAS, SPIRAEA, NATIVE PLANTS, BLUEBERRY BUSHES and ESPALIER TRAINED TREES
January February March April May 1 to 15 May 16 to 31 June 1 to 7 June 8 to 14 June 15 to 21 June 22 to 30 July August September October November December
A description with pictures of what we grow and how we operate our business.
RECENTLY UPDATED
www.floweringshrubfarm.com/climbing.htm updated 7/4/10
www.floweringshrubfarm.com/espalier.htm updated 7/4/10
www.floweringshrubfarm.com/white.htm updated 7/4/10
www.floweringshrubfarm.com/crop244.htm updated 7/5/10
inv#012 or Rose inventory #12 11176 to 11199 updated 7/5/10
INV#013 Rose inventory #13 11352 to 14000 updated 7/5/10
Growing page updated 7/6/10
Big & Fat cars updated July 10, 2010
www.floweringshrubfarm.com/oldrose.htm 7/22/10
INVENTORY PICTURES OF ROSES in the order that I added them to the plant sale, updated a couple times a year and deleted within a month of being sold.
INV#014 Rose inventory #14 last updated 7/11/10
INV#013 Rose inventory #13 updated 7/5/10 Hansa, Mme Plantier, Tuscany Superb,
inv#012 or Rose inventory #12 updated 7/5/10 Nevada, Four Seasons, Leda, Great Maidens Blush, Alba maxima, Alfred de Dalmas, Apothecarys rose, Duchess of Portland, Kazanlik, alba semi plena, Harisons Yellow,
inv#011 or Rose inventory #11 updated 7/8/10 kazanlik, henri martin, francois juranville, rosarium uetersen, furstin von pless, rugelda, Mrs Anthony waterer, Lichtkonigin Lucia, American Pillar, Ferdinand Pichard,
inv010 or Rose inventory #10 updated 7/8/10 Ispahan, Harisons Yellow, Albertine, Mme Hardy, Rosa mundi, Complicata, Tuscany Superb, La Belle Sultane, Conte de Chambord, Hybrid Musk
inv009 or Rose inventory #9 updated 7/9/10 celeste alba, felicite parmentier, rosa centifolia, belle de crecy, alberic barbier, stanwell perpetual, celsiana damask, konigin von danemark,
inv008 or Rose inventory #8 updated 7/9/10 Anais segales, Rotesmeer, Belle Poitevine, William Lobb, Rosarium Uetersen, Leverkusen, Hippolyte, Celeste Alba,
inv007 or Rose inventory #7 updated 7/8/10 Pauls Himalayan musk, New Dawn, Delicata, Henry Kelsey, Roseraie de l'Hay, prairie princess,
Milne Reunion Pictures from July 24, 2010 #2
Milne Reunion Pictures from July 24, 2010 #1
Azalea House Flowering Shrub Farm in Voorheesville, NY 12186.
I grow plants that are locally HARDY, DISEASE RESISTANT, VIGOROUS and FRAGRANT to sell during our
or by Appointment.
We grow Classic Lilacs
including; French Lilacs with extremely fragrant double flowers ,
purple, lavender, violet or magenta flowered Lilacs ,
Disease Resistant Roses including;
Climbing Roses & Rambler Roses,
Old Garden Roses mentioned in literature.
Native Azaleas and Rhododendrons including Pinxterbloom azalea or R. nudiflorum / R. periclymenoides, Swamp azalea or R. viscosum and Rosebay rhododendron or R. maximum) and
We also grow Hardy Blueberry Bushes including native plants and
Espalier Trained Trees (including; Belgian Fence, Step over or Horizontal T trained apple and Pear trees and
Check out pictures of my operation during the following months.
July Rose Sale and propagation
Last edited 01/30/2012
Row A, B, C, D, E & F in the fields contain mostly lilacs. These pictures show each 250 plant row from the end and a sign that shows the date the picture was taken.