Our first greenhouse is open! For the past few days we have been planting up our ivy geranium hanging baskets. We've had some beautiful sunny days, just what geraniums love. The Mini-cascade geraniums are bigger than ever, we can't wait to see them in May.
Here is a close up of one of the hanging baskets. They start off growing on benches for a few weeks before we put them up in the air. This makes it easier to water, and they're spaced tight together so they don't take up much space. This way we can grow them all in one greenhouse, and save the heating costs. Eventually they will be spread out through six greenhouses. If you look carefully at the label you'll see this variety is "Contessa Pink". We also have Contessa Purple, Lavender, Rose, Burgundy.... You haven't heard of these varieites before have you? Are these new varieties? Nope, these are Syngenta geraniums. The used to be Fischer geraniums, but Syngenta bought out Fischer and decided to rename all the geranium varieties. Sheesh, it was hard enough keeping track of all the geraniums before this huge name change, but between you and me I think we'll keep calling them by their old names.
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