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Nursery Tour

Let's take a walk through our nursery. It always looks different each time you come but we'll show you some of the most typical plants.

We grow lots of fuchsias...Hanging Baskets by the hundreds and hundreds. It's like a heavenly canopy of flowers. You'll find every possible color and form in our fuchsia selection. This season we will have a number of new varieties for you. Mostly uprights but some baskets too. Lots of spectacular double flowered fuchsias

You will find fuchsia baskets and 4 inch fuchsias ready especially for April and May. You see Fluffy Ruffles, Hula Girl, all of the red/purple flowers like Voodoo.

If you come in early in March you'll see some beautiful Hydrangeas.

In March the first impatiens get ready. Begonias like Dragon Wings[ shown below] are wonderful. they usually are ready to go by late April or maybe May. Tough and easy to grow they will go in either filtered sun or shade

Regular Impatiens come in lots of colors. In March we will have both regular and New Guinea Impatiens ready. They are growing nicely in our warm greenhouses. Wait til it is warm enough to plant them. Be patient!! This is how the nursery looks in late spring and summer. The impatiens are huge and fuchsias hang overhead in a glorious canopy.

You see Begonias all over. the field of giant flowered begonias is spectacular also special begonias like 'Dragon Wings' This is a close-up of the Dragon Wing flowers. There are hundreds of other begonias. some with very beautiful foliage. some with exotic flowers like the tuberous ones. You'll find them at Weidners

	Here you see a red picotee begonia flower, this flower is about 4 inches across. This is one of the original giant flowered varieties  Below are early Non-Stop begonias in pots. We grow them in the greenhouse and turn on the lights for 3 hours a night to fool them into thinking it is summer.

last year in the greenhouses at Holiday time.
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This year I made Begonia Sherbert for the Begonia Festival and many of you wanted the recipe. It is really simple but here it is. It is nice to have something to do with those tuberous begonia blooms in addition to looking at them.

Recipe for Begonia flower sherbert.
I used Mango Apricot sherbert for one batch and a vanilla frozen yogurt for the other. Any fruit sherbert would work.
For about one quart of softened sherbert add 1/2 cup of Orange juice concentrate and some lemon juice. This is so that it isn't too sweet. I like things a bit tart. Use your own taste for this.

Then I washed the flowers and pulled them always from the green center core, put a good handful into the blender and made them into sort of a slush. Mix with sherbert. Next take more handfuls of flower petals and cut them into slivers using either a knife of scissor. The scissors were faster since I just snipped thin slivers in batches right off the blossom. This is not rocket science, you just want small enough piece that you aren't eating a whole petal and large enough that they look like confetti in the sherbert. [How many flowers to use. It's up to you. You want to be able to see them and taste them.] Mix these in by hand. The first try I added them to the blender mix and they blended very quickly into a nice smooth sherbert but you couldn't see them! Put the sherbert back in freezer to refreeze and enjoy.
It would be very pretty to serve a scoop in a begonia flower or maybe on a leaf.