Fresh Cut Christmas trees are coming! - Nov 25, 2022
Rare White Jacaranda Tree up for auction
Dear gardening friends
We've had so many phone calls this week about Christmas Trees. Yes, we will have Fresh Cut Christmas Trees from Saturday 3rd of December. We will have them on Sunday too. Hopefully, we will have them the following weekend. Last year our supplier ran out early.
Fresh Cut Christmas Trees make your house smell like Christmas. When you come home you will smell that lovely pine fragrance. Trees cost $79.99.
They are 1.8ms high.
We have Christmas Tree stands to support your tree, and keep it fresh.
You need one of these.
We have potted Christmas trees.
These Norway Spruce can stay in pots for years. They can also be planted in the garden. They do look beautiful.
Prices start at $59.99.
They are cute.
We also have fabulous plants here for Christmas presents. The Hydrangeas are looking spectacular and they are huge plants covered in buds and flowers for $34.99.
We also have Flowering NSW Christmas Bush. We have the fabulous red flowering variety called Red Red. It's much redder than other varieties and it has nicer foliage.
These make fabulous gifts too, and they are inexpensive. Come see.
I was watching this guy through the fence. He was looking at the Tomato seedlings, like they were old friends.
I noticed he had a newspaper tucked under his arm. You don't see people with newspapers these days. I decided to start a conversation.
John has lived in Ingleburn for 40 years. He owned a fruit shop called Country Garden in the 80s.
He owned that shop for 10 years he told me, he started off with a small shop, but he ended up renting the two shops next door too.
He sold it in 1990 when Council closed the railway crossing. "It killed me" said John.
I asked him if he had a vegetable garden?
His eyes light up.
"Of course, I grow everything".
He lives in a town house, so he has to be careful which fertilisers he uses, but still loves to dig chicken and cow manure into his soil.
He's here to buy a few Tomato seedlings today. He asks me which ones the best?
"The Italian Tomato mate, it's pear shaped."
I've already discovered that John is Italian. It turns out he has two newspapers under his arm. He gets the Italian newspaper twice a week, and the Telegraph every day.
Where do you sit to read that paper?
"What do you mean, I sit in a chair".
But where do you read it?
"If it's in the morning I sit out the back and look out at the vegetable garden, but today I'm going to sit out the front of my house, it's in the shade."
Do you have a coffee?
"No, I have a Whisky" he starts laughing.
A Whisky????
"Yes I always have a Whisky, it makes me relax and I sit there for an hour reading the papers."
We are friends now, I find out more about him, he's 81. He still works in a fruit shop part time, he helps out a friend. He doesn't work 12 hours a day like the good old days.
He laughs a lot.
He knows about all the fruit shops in Macarthur, a lot of the owners are his friends. I discover his real name is John Santa Rosa. He's named after a famous Plum tree.
We have a laugh.
I've made another friend.
We are auctioning a White Jacaranda tree to raise money for Beyondblue. We have grafted this rare tree here at the nursery. They are so hard to grow.
The rare white jacaranda, Jacaranda mimosifolia alba, was introduced into Australia in 1960 by George Hewitt, a doctor from Bellingen, NSW.
He was a mad plant collector.
He imported the White Jacaranda from a collector in Florida.
Bellingen Hospital's original white jacaranda tree, still flowers in the grounds.
Graham Ross named this rare tree Jacaranda "White Christmas". He has one growing on his nature strip in Beecroft. He was kind enough to let me use his photos.
If you'd like to bid on this fabulous tree search for item 125629155371 on EBay.
It could make a fabulous Christmas Gift.
All money goes to Beyondblue.
We have plenty of mauve flowering Jacaranda trees here from just $10.00.
They make great street trees.
They grow super fast.
You still have time to grow summer vegetables like Tomatoes, Cucumbers, Capsicum, Zucchini, Eggplant, Lettuce, Celery, Silverbeet, Carrots, Leeks, Strawberries etc etc.
Come see our selection.
So much colour here to jazz up your pots for Christmas. We can make you look like a gardener. We've done all the hard work.
It's easy!
Start watering your pots, Gardens and lawns more now. Those winds have dried out the soil. We've noticed even indoor plants need more water when it's windy.
Happy gardening
Tim