I'm posting this for vossner. It looks like fun! Too bad I don't have more room in the yard for any more trees..
Fruit Tree Sale!!
I wrestled with this notice and could not get it posted. Thank goodness for 'youngens' like Marylyn that can get this stuff done in seconds!
If you miss this one, Treesearch works with other groups and put together these fruit tree sales in late winter/early spring.
edited to further clarify: Treesearch is a very respectable wholesale grower in Houston. The owners are extremely supportive of groups like master gardeners and garden clubs throughout the city that host these sales as fund-raisers for their respective organizations.
This message was edited Jan 31, 2006 6:28 PM
One of the neat things about Treesearch is that their trees are locally grown (in the greater Houston area) so they don't have to acclimate to our climate - they're already right at home with it! As a result, Treesearch only grows the varieties that work well here.
I went to Arbor Gate's fruit tree sale Sunday, and heard Heidi Sheesley (owner of Treesearch.) She was so interesting, the information was so helpful. I went to buy a Meyer Lemon but, like Marylyn, I wish I had room for more trees! (May be if I win the HGTV Dream Home I can buy a bunch of land and plant an orchard, lol.)
lol, maggiemoo. That woman is so passionate about her plants/work that when she's finished she has everybody ready to buy EVERTHING! Heidy is a fine person.
You can't win the HGTV house. Then you'd have to move to the Carolinas and I would miss ya.lol
Do you know that last year I entered 200 times for the house in Tyler? I check that website regularly and I don't think the winner (someone from IL) has actually moved there. I wanted that one BAAAAAAADDDDDD.
Oh, I don't EVEN want to move to the Carolinas, I can't leave my TX gardening pals!! Besides, the commute to work would be a real bear, lol.
I figure I will sell it to someone rich up there and bring all the money back to TX. Maybe I can start a TX DG-Community garden. Wouldn't it be neat to have a place where we could all get together and play in the dirt? We'll have a small orchard, a veggie garden, butterfly garden, fragrance garden, rose garden, native garden, woodland garden, test/experimental garden, art garden, whimsical garden... plus places to have picnics, etc.
:-)
Wow Mary! you sure come up with some great ideas, would that wonderful place be located in Arlington by any chance?
((Josephine)) :-)
If it isn't, I'll hire a limo to bring you and Frank to come visit (since I'll be rich, lol.)
I went to work the sale set-up. they had the most wonderful avocados, thornless key limes, kumquats and peaches. All kinds of good stuff, but these really caught my attention for their beauty and how well developed they looked.
also have some apples that could be grown fine in as far down as galveston. Anna (I think?)
Please go to this or any of their other sales if you can. it will be a good value.