Horticulture
Happenings the week of June 3, 2013
The dog days of summer are here. There are less things to plant, lots to move and
even more to cut back. The Plant shop planted 300 fancy-leafed
Geraniums and Pothos Ivy into both 6” pots and 10” hanging baskets, and planted
some sweet basil into 6” pots. The plant shop also cut back hundreds of
spring and summer flowers.
The Movers group,
as the name implies, moved hundreds of plants to other locations usually “spacing
and tubing” them. Spacing and tubing is
the act of placing the pots apart where they can spread out and placing a water
tube in each pot. The Movers also “dumped” some plants this
week. "Dumped" as you might guess is
throwing them away if they become unsellable.
In Propagation, aka The
Prop Shop, we propagated Swedish Ivy, Blue
Duranta and Bulvine. Prop also planted
Baby Tears and Creeping Wirevine.
We welcomed a new day citizen this week. Sean joined us Thursday. Sean will come Wednesday-Friday and will work
in the Plant Shop in the morning and the Movers in the afternoon. We are very glad to have him with us.
Tara Burger, who was an intern this past spring, joined us as
the newest Work Program Teacher. She is
working in the Movers. In future
entries, we will feature those who make up the Work Program Teachers in the
Horticulture Group here at Brookwood.
...Gerald Harper
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