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Celebrate Spring at Hickory Grove Greenhouses:

We will have thousands of colorful Easter flowers including tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, iris, hydrangeas, pot mums and lilies just to name a few!  If you come to purchase bulbs prior to Palm Sunday, you won’t find them in the retail greenhouse.  The warmer the temperature, the faster the bulbs bloom, so we store them in our 34° bulb cooler.  This keeps the bulbs in prime condition for Easter Sunday.  The cooler, which holds approximately 300,000 bulbs, is located right on our property making it easy for us to get any bulbs you may need. 

We will also carry beautiful potted arrangements in all shapes and sizes for indoors as well as outside (including cemetery logs and pots filled with cold tolerant bulbs and annuals).

Above: Tulips, hybrid colored lilies and hyacinths are a few items that fill our retail greenhouse.

Hickory Grove will have pansies, violas, early season vegetables, perennials and shrubs for those who can’t wait to get out in the garden and get a little dirt under their fingernails.  Larger containers and hanging baskets filled with blooming pansies and violas will also be available for those who want to add an instant punch of spring color.

Above: Pansies and Violas available at Hickory Grove this season.

Fun Floral Facts:

 

 

˜  The tulip is the most popular bulb flower among American consumers with red being the most popular color.  It normally takes 15-25 years to bring a new variety of tulip to the market.

˜  In Holland in the early 1600’s, tulip bulbs could command nearly 3,000 guilders ($1,500 US)!

˜  95% of all Easter Lily bulbs are grown in an isolated area along the California/Oregon coast.  This region, called the Easter lily capital of the World, produces nearly all of the bulbs for the blooming potted Easter Lily market—almost 12 million each year!

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˜  For longer lasting lily blooms, remove the yellow anthers before the pollen starts to drip.  Do not fertilize lilies when they are in bloom.

˜  Hyacinths,  daffodils and grape hyacinths are rarely eaten by deer, rabbits or squirrels.

˜  From bulblets  (baby bulbs) to mature blooming bulbs, Easter Lilies need 3-4 years to grow and are handled as many as 40 times. 

˜  Contained within a bulb is just about everything the plant will need to sprout and flower at the appropriate time: bud, flower stalk, leaves and roots!