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Pearl Farmer's Market June 27, 2009 – Update

admin — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:33:32 +0000

JD2 Ranch, Inc. grower specializing in daylilies, iris, and seasonal cut flowers
Pearl Farmer’s Market UPDATE – June 27, 2009
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 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 topics.

Pearl Farmer's Market June 27, 2009

JoNelle — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:35:40 +0000

JD2 Ranch, Inc.
grower specializing in daylilies, iris, and seasonal cut flowers

Pearl Farmer’s Market
June 27, 2009

Our Spring Garden Day was a great success. Thank you to everyone who came down to Floresville. Our cut flowers are continuing with zinnias and sunflowers this week. 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 topics.

Daylilies

Potted: Bitsy, Little Business, Condilla, Royal Palace Prince.

Bare root: Bare root daylilies will be on hold until September. If you would like to request any of our potted daylilies, just give us a call or send an e-mail.

Other Plants:

Sunflowers -
Sundance Kids 4″ pots, quarts
Sunbright Kids – 4″ pots, quarts
Sedums – 4″ pots
Herbs – 4″ pots
Bearded Iris – potted
Bulbine
Potscapes
Cannas

Cut Flowers

Zinnias and sunflowers are beginning to bloom. We will have solid bunches of sunflowers, zinnias, and a few mixed bouquets.

Coming Attractions

Cut flowers: Rudbeckias, Cosmos, Gladiolus -

Pearl Farmer's Market June 20, 2009

JoNelle — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:30:24 +0000

JD2 Ranch, Inc.
grower specializing in daylilies, iris, and seasonal cut flowers

Pearl Farmer’s Market
June 20, 2009

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 week. 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 topics.

Daylilies

Potted: Bitsy, Chorus Line, Little Business, Winsome Lady, Fairy Tale Pink, our potted daylilies are beginning to bloom now.

Bare root: Bare root daylilies will be on hold until September. If you would like to request any of our potted daylilies, just give us a call or send an e-mail.

Other Plants:

Sunflowers – Sundance Kids 4″ pots, quarts
Sunbright Kids – 4″ pots, quarts
Sedums – 4″ pots
Herbs – 4″ pots
Bearded Iris – potted
Bulbine
Potscapes

Cut Flowers

Zinnias are beginning to bloom. We will have solid bunches of zinnias, a few mixed bouquets.

Coming Attractions

Cut flowers: Sunflowers (I have 1 or 2 that are beginning to bloom) Rudbeckias, Cosmos, Gladiolus -

Polka Dot Plants for Shade

JoNelle — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:22:22 +0000

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 up. They grow to 12 – 18 inches tall. If you want to keep them shorter and bushier, just pinch back the tops of the plants. In the fall, I let them flower (an uninspiring flower) so that they will set seed and I’ll have a new crop of seedlings in the spring. In November, December or January, I cut the plants down to about an inch above the ground. Early the next spring you will get all new foliage again, and also a crop of seedlings for the previous year’s seeds.

Polka Dot plants are a great addition to your shade garden. They can also be brought indoors as a houseplant. Inside they need bright light, and remeber to give them some diluted fertilizer.

Pearl Farmer's Market June 13, 2009

JoNelle — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 02:44:42 +0000

JD2 Ranch, Inc.
grower specializing in daylilies, iris, and seasonal cut flowers

Pearl Farmer’s Market
May 30, 2009

Daylilies

Potted: Bitsy, Chorus Line, Little Business, Winsome Lady, Fairy Tale Pink, our potted daylilies are beginning to bloom now.

Bare root: Bare root daylilies will be on hold until September. If you would like to request any of our potted daylilies, just give us a call or send an e-mail.

Other Plants:

Sunflowers – Sundance Kids 4″ pots, quarts
Sunbright Kids – 4″ pots, quarts
Sedums – 4″ pots
Herbs – 4″ pots
Bearded Iris – potted
Bulbine
Potscapes

Cut Flowers

Zinnias are beginning to bloom. We will have solid bunches of zinnias, a few mixed bouquets and some individual blooms

Coming Attractions

Cut flowers: Sunflowers (about 1 week away) Rudbeckias, Cosmos, Gladiolus -

Pearl Farmer's Market May 30, 2009

JoNelle — Fri, 29 May 2009 18:02:47 +0000

JD2 Ranch, Inc.
grower specializing in daylilies, iris, and seasonal cut flowers

Pearl Farmer’s Market
May 30, 2009

Riverwalk Grand Opening

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 topics.

Daylilies

Potted: Bitsy, Chorus Line, Little Business, Red Ribbons, Winsome Lady, Fairy Tale Pink

Bare root: Stella de Oro, Mixed and Mixed by colors (pink, purple, and apricot/melon).

Other Plants:

Sunflowers -
Sundance Kids – 4″ pots
Sunbright Kids – 4″ pots
Sedums – 4″ pots
Bearded Iris – potted
Bulbine
Potscapes

Cut Flowers

Starting in June 2009

Coming Attractions

Cut flowers: Sunflowers, Zinnias, Rudbeckias, Cosmos, Gladiolus -

Festival of Flowers, Pearl Farmer's Markets and upcoming events

JoNelle — Sun, 24 May 2009 15:36:51 +0000

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 great.

At the Festival of Flowers, I gave the 10:30 am seminar on daylilies. It was a great crowd with lots of eager gardeners. The San Antonio Daylily Society was selling bare root daylilies at the Festival and they essentially sold out of their daylilies – hooray, since it is our club’s main fundraiser. For the seminar, I created and gave a power point presentation (a little different for me), but it allowed me to show a lot more flowers and garden settings using daylilies. I think that I will expand it a little more to include a couple of other items and then I will continue to use it in some of my club and nursery seminars that I give. At the Festival I didn’t take any daylilies to sell (since SADS was selling them), but I did take bearded iris and dwarf sunflowers (see last week’s blog). They went over great and it was a very successful day.

Next week at the Pearl Brewery Farmer’s Market, the Grand Opening of the Riverwalk Extension is occurring. So it will be another busy and eventful day at the market. Look for our plant listings on Thrusday night/Friday morning on the blog. I will also be giving a daylily and iris seminar at Schultz Nursery on Broadway at 2 pm. It is always great going to Schulz, since they continue to have a great array of choice plants.

In two weeks, June 6th, is our Annual Spring Garden Day here at the ranch, and Markets in the Country with Rhew Orchards (peaches), Green Country Farm (blackberries), and Cooper’s Garden Place. We are expecting a great crowd with lots of things going on. Some of the surrounding garden clubs will be having tables set up with information, and we will also some BBQ (hamburgers and sausage) plates available. We are already planning on what daylilies to have pre-dug for customers, and we will have some potted bearded iris, and other plants in 4″ pots, and 1 gal containers. See our listing of plants the week before the Garden Day. We hope to see a lot of you here even if you just want cruise through the gardens looking at ideas. Kids are more than welcome and we have lots of room for them to run around.

Pearl Farmer's Market May 23

JoNelle — Fri, 22 May 2009 11:50:27 +0000

JD2 Ranch, Inc.
grower specializing in daylilies, iris, and seasonal cut flowers

Pearl Farmer’s Market
May 23, 2009

Marty will be holding down the fort while I am at the Festival of Flowers (Alzafar Shrine on 1604) giving the seminar on daylilies. Please be kind to him, since he is not a gardener – yet! These are some of the items he will be bringing to the market on May 2nd. 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 topics.

Daylilies

Potted: Bitsy, Hyperion

Bare root: Hyperion
Mixed

Other Plants

Sunflowers – Sundance Kids – 4″ pots
Sunbright Kids – 4″ pots
Peacock orchids (Abyssinian glads) - 4″ pots
Sedums – 4″ pots
Bearded Iris – bare root
Potscapes

Cut Flowers

Starting in June 2009

Coming Attractions

Cut flowers: Sunflowers, Zinnias, Rudbeckias, Cosmos, Gladiolus -

Pearl Farmer's Market and Festival of Flowers

JoNelle — Fri, 22 May 2009 01:04:23 +0000

Sunbright Kid Sunflower

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 garden.

The reason Marty is taking over for me at the Pearl Farmer’s Market is because at 10:30 I will be giving the daylily seminar (featured plant this year) at the 2009 Festival of Flowers. I will then be at

Sundance Kid Sunflower

the Festival of Flowers until 5 pm, answering questions and selling plants. I will be taking mainly bearded iris to the Festival of Flowers. Since the Festival of Flwoers is one of the main fundraisers for our San Antonio Daylily Society, I will not bring any competing daylilies in. So I hope to see you at one or both of the events this Saturday.

Grand Opening of the Pearl Farmer's Market

admin — Sun, 17 May 2009 15:23:58 +0000

Pearl Farmer's Market Opening

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 daylilies, Hyperion and Mixed. I will plan to bring extra bare root daylilies next week. Many of the vendors sold out of product early. It was great to see lots of families with small and large kids going through the market, and several of the kids were already gardeners buying different small plants.

Next week, Marty will be manning the booth at the Pearl Farmer’s Market, since I will be giving the daylily seminar at the Festival of Flowers (10:30 am at the Alzafar Auditorium on 1604). Please be kind to Marty, he is just getting into the knowledge base of gardening. He will have orders ready for pickup for people who have ordered through our website for ”Pearl Brewery” shipping/pick up. If you have a special request of a daylily or bearded iris for us to bring to the market, just send me an e-mail at jonelle@jd2ranch.com and we will see that we bring it with us that next Saturday.