Spring is in the air

So it's early March, been a while since my last post and i've been crazy busy. The greenhouse is nearly bursting with exotic and unusual seedtrays, new plant type seedlings are popping up every day so it's all promising and exciting. In the past few months it's been a case of ordering tonnes of seeds, seeing what the competition is up to, organising the design of the Exotic Unusual website, planting seeds and potting up.

I'm trying loads of stuff i've never done before this year plus old favourites, i've put in several large orders for one of the nurseries specialities- Agaves. These odd looking little seedlings are popping up nicely can't wait for them to pick up speed, it's fair to say that they aren't the quickest growing plants around!

I've found the greenhouse must be doing something right as germination rates have been good, the only thing stopping me having as many plants as I should is my bad habit of overwatering seedlings, I will pack this in.

New ranges for this year include, agaves, passionflowers, a few acacias, several lovely salvia varieties a particular fave of mine, and much much more. My original aim for the nursery was to specialise in agaves, passionflowers and other rare exotics witha few unusual plants thrown in so that there was something for everyone. After ordering in agaves from around the world ( I try not to think about the combined cost so far this year) and thinking about the lack of speed of agave seedlings I decided that I had to carry far more stock varieties.

To cut a long story a bit shorter these are my main categories, exotic, unusual, and rare plants. I've alos gone for a few novely items like the mimosa whose leaves fold up when touched (I was thinking of the possibility of keeping baby Alexia occupied with these), scented plants like the heliotrope or cherry pie, coloured plants so that I can sell plant collections like "black plants" , grasses and so on, basically something hopefully for everyone.

Roll on spring the weathers miserable...