At this time of the year there isn't a great deal to be done physically in the greenhouse. It's a case of doing checks and watering when needed every few days or so.
My time plant wise is currently being spent on research more than anything and pestering my fantastic, multi-talented, wonderful web designer Andy or Munki boy as he is known (he better be reading this) http://www.munki-boy.co.uk/ . The Exotic Unusual site is being built and is in the tweaking stages, looks great all it needs now is plants!
Yesterday I did a stock check, made a list of every plant I had to sell at this moment in time, size, details and so on. Where I had bought in the plants I worked out how much they had cost me including overheads and worked out my selling prices.
As Agave specialsits are, shall we ay rare in this country it difficult to pitch a price so I have to look at my costs, desirability, risk and so on, after all I am running a business not a charity I am here to make good profit and I don't apologise for that. I put 100% into running my businesses constantly and with this come alot of sacrifices and very high risks. Therefore if you see a price that you find steep, it is like that for a very good reason you are not just paying for a plant you are factoring in the complete devotion, overheads, sacrifices and risks of the seller.
A good first step in getting the nursery known is that I have been accepted into the Plant Finder book and website so people will know what I sell and that I exist, just need the site live asap so people don't get disappointed if they try going to the site at the minute.
This morning I ordered all manner of pots and labels so I should have enough to keep me stocked for a good while.
The weekend was spent forum bashing, researching into my main venture idea for this year. My husband has his own computer business, our free time revolves mainly around work but it's good as we spur and envourage each other and come up with suggestions, alot of the time just telling the other person what's going through your head helps make decisions for you. He is of the "just get on and do it"- "have you not done it yet?" school, i'm more of the business head I think I calcualte risk and research till I am completely satisfied, then I get on with whatever needs to be done.
I need to get another seed order done. Potted up 8 lovely germinated Cycas panzhihuaensis and 2 Ensete superbum aswell, looks like the seeds are beginning to sprout.
Monday, 7 January 2008
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