FRUITION SEEDS - FIELD DAY!

Please come join us on Saturday, July 27, 2013 at Fruition Seeds field day in Naples, NY.
The Canandaigua Botanical Society plans to meet there at 10 am - but you're welcome all day!

CELEBRATE ORGANIC SEEDS

3 - 5 pm on Saturday, July 27, 2013

Petra Page-Mann has invited us to celebrate Fruition Seeds’ local and organic seed production at their Field Day.  There will be tours, hands-on seed cleaning, and lots of taste-testing all day long.  See what it’s all about at http://www.fruitionseeds.com/.

Carpool from the Sly Street parking lot at 9:15 am or meet at the farm: 7970 Hickory Bottom Road just outside Naples, NY.  Take NY 21 south through Naples and make a slight right onto Co. Rt. 36/Clark Street (Hunt Hollow Road).  Take first right onto Gulick Road and then a left onto Hickory Bottom Road.  Fruition Seeds will be on the left.

The Unique Gardens of Michael Hannen

On Saturday, July 20th ten folks got together to enjoy the diverse gardens of Micheal Hannen. With about 1000 varieties of flowers and plants we were certainly overwhelmed to remember all of the species (which Micheal could name quite easily).  Michael has plants available for sale by contacting him at growboy22@yahoo.com.

Here is just a small sampling of what we saw:

Michael Hannen's gardens in Rochester, NY

anis hissop

arundo

balloon flower

bastard balm

bears breeches

bears breeches: morning candle

bluebutter - smells like liverwurst and repels deer!

bush clematis

Cobra Leaf Jack-in-the-Pulpit

Amazing the varieties of Jack-in-the-Pulpits...this one with several pulpits!

coreopsis route 66

crocosmia lucifer

datisca cannabina (with quite the description!)

donkey tail

Leona with epazote

Michael demonstrates mulching with Fiskars

Flora tube socks (from Japan?)

gold leaf astilbes

gold leaf poke weed

heleopsis prairie sunset

helleborus

honeysuckle

hybiscus - Bring in the Clowns

hypericum sunburst

indigo little pinkie

another Jack-in-the-Pulpit

jack-in-the-pulpit - Red Dragon

kid abelia - Micheal's "Naughty" plant

knot weed - kissme

knotweed

Lance Corporal knotweed

Micheal expands his garden space by planting on the property next door.  Micheal gets to garden and the landlord doesn't need to worry about mowing the lawn!

lavendar

lobelia cardinalis

potted plants in Micheal's market garden - and another jack-in-the-pulpit

Fitting to his name: The Plant Whisperer!

Midwestern elderberry

Miss Lucy ornamental lily and pink phlox

Micheal has a story to tell about this mother-in-law plant

mountain oregano with white leaves

Micheal's stick points out native ginsing

Micheal's garden expands to neighboring yard

ornamental pepper

ornium onion - allium

raspberry wine in foreground

red ocra

red prairie fire

silphium perfoliatum - cup plant

snowflake hydrangia

South African impatians

sugar tip rose of sharon

tamarix shrub

The Plant Whisperer

trifolium rubens - ornamental clover

Sweet Anne echinacea

variegated heliopsis

verbascum

Virginia mountain mint - oregano

white flowering sedum

white globe thistle

yellow heliopsis

Japanese shrub mint

Unknown (I forgot to write it down)

another missed name

We concluded our tour just before noon as it began to rain.  Even though I took over 200 photos, I couldn't possibly share them all here.  We were quite impressed that Micheal know all of the plants by name - not to mention several interesting facts about each plant.  We are grateful to Micheal for opening his gardens to us and realize that each week unfolds a different awesome array of blooms.  Micheal specializes in propagating unique plants and would love to help you diversify your garden.  You may contact him for plant purchases by appointment at growboy22@yahoo.com.