Orders and Shipments

I completed my seed orders today for flowers.  Many seeds will be ready for planting within the next two weeks, and most of the others will be planted after New Year's.

I also received the first of my shipments in for the greenhouse.  My Vesey's order came in this morning with a lot of seed packets, the automatic vents for the greenhouse, and some seed trays.  Unfortunately, I don't think the seed trays will be versatile enough to work with the majority of the seeds.  They should be good for a lot of the vegetables, and a few of my perennials such as the hostas and daylilies.  I purchased them because they were the most cost-effective, and I wanted to see how versatile they would be.  Unfortunately I will have to buy bigger trays to grow most of the flowers and first-planted vegetables.

My second order was with Thompson Morgan, where I was able to pick up more exotic plants and supplant whatever standards that I wasn't able to find at Vesey's.

I also have to pick up my door for the greenhouse and am waiting on delivery of the covering.  The covering may have arrived already as I missed a delivery from Canada Post this morning, but I have an Ebay order also coming soon, so I'm not sure which one I will be getting tomorrow.

Final note on seeds:  I may be getting some more flowers, namely climbing and trailing vines.  The demand for vines in the past hasn't been huge.  I have planted a number of standard perennial vines like Honeysuckle, but haven't had many requests, nor suggested vines often.  I'm considering picking up a few and maybe testing the waters next Spring to see if anyone is interested.  As for trailing plants, I figure they might come in handy if I try to sell some of the exotic plants in planters.  I am also looking into planting bags, similar to the way the Topsy-Turvy vegetable/berry planters work, that can be used to hang off deck railings, fences, etc. where trailing annuals would be useful.  Again, because I don't have a history of selling container plants, I'm not sure how much interest I would get.  Based on the containers I see, I suspect it is worth the gamble of picking up some of these plants.