Merged Carol's Collectibles Nursery & Syringa Plus Lilacs
Now that the ground is finally frozen, it’s time to tip all the plants down and cover them up! Doing this minimizes the temperature fluctuation and maintains moisture within the pots. While also ensuring our potted plants stay safe from rodents. Done!
Here’s what Carol had to say about this time of year:
“FALL IS THE BEST TIME TO PLANT”
“It’s time for my annual reminder. If you’ve been following me for long you know that this is my mantra.
Plant sex is done for the year, the heat of summer is passing, rains come and soil moisture stays more stable, the sun is still high enough in the sky to keep plants happily fed, but not as scorching as in summer. All this adds up to less transplant shock and plenty of time for roots to get established.”
~ Carol Yee
I would like to introduce you to my old friend and new collaborator at the Nursery, Evie King. Evie comes up from Massachusetts where she and her partner Roger Coggeshall propagated and sold lilacs and were known worldwide as Syringa Plus. By lilacs I mean not just the ones we might know by name but the rarest of the rare…..the almost lost and no longer in the trade—the one of a kind lilacs.
Roger was the Lilac propagator at Arnold Arboretum in the ‘50s and after his recent passing I saw that Evie was floating around with no place to continue her passion for keeping these old treasures going. I invited her to use my mist system. Since then, she has moved most of her lilac collection to Maine, added a small propagation house at the Nursery and basically “moved in”, Lilacs and all. (At my invitation of course!)
Now that she’s found a home for these treasures where she can continue her propagating program, Evie is reestablishin her stock of these rare and precious lilacs for the future.
So… I’d like you to welcome Evie to the community of plant enthusiasts and we invite you to come see the show when the Lilacs bloom!
