Our Retail Plant Sale At Azalea House Flowering Shrub Farm. If the picture below does not open click here! You can find me at The Plant Sale from May 15 through July 4 between 10 AM and 2 PM. Or you can call and give me a heads up on my cell phone at 518-526-9101. Finally you can email me and make an appointment (espalier sales are often conducted in September when fruit is on the tree so you can test the fruit of the tree you wish to purchase. I change my web pages frequently so you should reload each one in case your computer has it cached. Last edited August 15, 2010.
Above is a picture of the Lilac sale in May with lots of Lilacs in bloom for sale. I label each one while they are in bloom.
GROWING CROP PICTURES
The picture above is growingcrop025.jpg 'Fru Dagmar Hastrup'. I group plants of the same variety together, place a sign among them with the crop number for that variety (the crop number for 'Fru Dagmar Hastrup' is 25) and the days date, then photograph it with my digital camera. When you see a "growingcrop" picture of a plant you are interested in, click on it to see the date and more easily count how many plants I had as of that date. Also look at the white tags with the variety name written on them. This is an indicator that I have seen it in bloom and the flower was of that variety. Because we dont sell Lilacs or Roses until they bloom its also an indicator that its for sale. Click to check the date and count how many we had in stock on that date.
NEWSLETTER
I add new pictures of each crop of plants we grow to sell retail, closeups of flowers or fruit on plants for sale, and pictures out front like above, to the picture-newsletter almost every day. Click on this month below to see what the nursery and plants look like. Click other months to see what they looked like then. I am adding new pictures to the current picture newsletter almost every day so you should reload the page each time in case your computer has it cached.
January February March April May 1 to 15 May 16 to 31 June 1 to 7 June 8 to 14 June 15 to 21 June 22 to 30 July August September October November December
Above is a picture of the Rose sale in June with lots of Roses in bloom for sale.
Each individual plant has a yellow label attached that has an inventory number on it. Whenever I take pictures of the plants I take a picture of the number on this label too. So this picture of the label would be saved as 11318label.jpg while a closeup of the flower would be saved as 11318flower.jpg
This is 'Edward J Gardner' French lilac Click it for a larger, clearer picture.
If you wish to be a customer my suggestion is;
Send me an email asking to be added to my subscribers list.
I notify my subscribers via email when I post a new picture (a picture is worth a thousand words). Pictures during the growing season can keep you aware of when the plants are flowering so you can "Buy it in bloom!" At other times the pictures may be of the chores we do in the nursery, notification of special sales and foliage or decorative fruit pictures that I will add to each plants picture collection linked from its inventory number in the catalog.
Smart buyers buy it in bloom. So I've set up the flowering shrub farm to be open when most of the plants we grow are in bloom. I dont sell plants that haven't bloomed previously so we can verify the variety. We have the picture-newsletter so that my customers will know when the plants they are interested in are in bloom. While they are in bloom I go around labeling each plant with a description of the flower (purple double, pink single, white double etc).
The Plant sale is at: 40 Voorheesville Ave, Voorheesville, NY 12186 across from the Voorheesville Diner
You can leave your phone number on my answering machine at 518-765-2574 and I'll get back to you as soon as possible if you dont have email. I dont answer the phone directly because I'm probably watering, feeding, pruning, potting etc.
My email address is azaleahs@capital.net
Click here for a picture of one of our gift certificates. They can be had by sending a check made out to 'Azalea House' for the amount requested (usually $20, $50, or $100), enclosed with a first class stamp to Azalea House Flowering Shrub Farm, PO Box 49, Voorheesville, NY 12186. If the return of the gift certificate in timely fashion is required warn me in an e-mail to watch for your letter. Otherwise I'll pick up the mail once a week.
My main home page from which you will find a link to a catalog from which there are links to pictures is at www.floweringshrubfarm.com An introduction to my growing methods (I am a grower) is at www.floweringshrubfarm.com/growing.htm We sell plants during the plant sale at www.floweringshrubfarm.com/intro.htm We do a little mail order at www.floweringshrubfarm.com/mail.htm andyvancleve
