Due to the extreme heat and drought, we will not be attending the Pearl Farmer’s Market this week. We regret not being there, but know that our customers cannot plant during this heat, and the cut flowers are not up to our standards. We hope to be back when the heat breaks. Until then stay cool, and Happy Gardening. If you have any specific requests, please e-mail me [...]
JD2 Ranch availability, daylilies, cannas, bulbine, sunflowers, [...]
plants for the Pearl Farmer’s Market on June 20, [...]
At the Pearl Farmer’s Market on Saturday several people bought polka dot plants and I told them I would write up a blog on the plants for them. Polka dot plants started off as a house plant until people realized that they were a perfect plant for the shade out here. Polda dot plants have either pink or white dots/blotches on green leaves. They are a shade plant. They also re-seed themselves. They are frost tender, but with trimming they come back in the spring. They do need some water when the tempertatures are at 95 and above – they look a little wilted until they get a dose of water and then they perk right [...]
Our Spring Garden Day was a great success. Thank you to everyone who came down to Floresville. We will be back at the Pearl Farmer’s Market this Saturday. Our cut flowers are beginning to start with zinnias this [...]
The Riverwalk Grand Opening looks to be another fun filled day at the Pearl Farmer’s Market. Here are some of the items I will be bringing to the market on May 30th. If you have any specific requests, please e-mail me at jonelle@jd2ranch.com or call me at 830 393-5233. Please check out our website: www.jd2ranch.com to see photos of our plants. Our gardening blog will also have additional information on the farmer’s market and on gardening [...]
Yesterday was a very busy and long day. First Marty was at the Pearl Farmer’s Market and I was over at the Festival of Flowers. Marty did really well at the Farmer’s Market. I know he couldn’t answer a lot of questions – but for him even answering the simple questions is [...]
Pearl Farmer’s Market May [...]
This Saturday will be an especially busy weekend. First Marty will be holding down the fort at the Pearl Farmer’s Market Saturday morning. Please be kind and gentle with him – he is NOT a gardener. He will have some bare root daylilies, some bulbine (see yesterday’s blog), some neat little sunflowers, some sedums, and a few other things. All in all it will be pretty simple for him. The sunflowers that he will have are shorties. The first one Sunbright Kids – only gets to be about 8″ tall, and the second one Sundance Kids gets between 15 – 17″ tall. Both are great for containers and for the front of the [...]
Yesterday was the Grand Opening of the Pearl Farmer’s Market with all the booth’s cutting their red ribbons and it was a fantastic day. Lots and lots and lots of people. We did end up closing a little early because of the rain – yippee for the rain! (We ended up getting just under 2 inches here at the ranch.) I sold out of the 4″ Peacock Orchids/Absyyinian Glads and out of my bare root [...]