American Ginseng (Panax quinquefolius) 2025 Update: 1rst Year Seedlings I will have first year seedlings potted up this year! Please email me to get on the list if you think you will want some. I’ll send an email to notify availability in late April, earlier if they come up sooner: . 2nd & 3rd Year Potted […]
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I’m late getting my seeds planted. They ordinarily would go in the ground in fall, but this year I didn’t get the opportunity to do so. Now we’ve got freezing temps and snow on the ground. The snow should melt soon, with more possible next weekend. So at some point this week I’ll get them
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This morning I walked through the nursery area to fulfill the last of the 2024 rootlet orders. First year seedling usually do get seeded into a specific location, where it’ll be easier for me to find an pot them the following May for local orders. But this is a wild-simulated nursery, and so plants are
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This year started out with low inventory because I didn’t get a chance to plant seeds last fall. We had a lot of rain early on, and then a lot of drought since summer began. Most of the seedlings I did have for sale in May were sold, and the remainder will ship out as
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The ginseng is beginning to unfurl. Some are already unfurled, mostly the yearlings. Goldenseal in my near-the-house garden is up and blooming, but the ones in their natural settings in the woods are still barely opening up. Trout lilies haven’t yet bloomed, but bloodroot is almost finished blooming. The crested irises are showing buds, but
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The woods are still wrapped in the relative peace of winter around here at Wild Ozark. However, the vernal witch hazel is blooming. Everything blooms and sprouts a little later here in our little valley. It’s a microcosm separated by about a week or even more from areas around us. This year is going to
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PARCHED. If I wanted to dig any roots right now, I’d have a heckuva time finding them. The tops have mostly dried up and fallen away now, but there are still a few stems left standing. A few golden ones now, too. Everything wrapped up the growing season early here because we just haven’t had
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The weather forecast calls for possible tennis ball hail tonight, so I figured I’d better get some pics of the plants… just in case. Here’s what it’s looking like today, August in the ginseng habitat. Most of the plants are healthy, but a few are holey from bugs or snails. That didn’t stop them from
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From this point onward during the hot summer months, I will only transplant to pots when there is an order to fill. 1rst, 2nd, but no 3rd year seedlings are available. These are potted seedlings, and I don’t ship those. Bare root seedlings will begin shipping once the weather cools off in fall. It takes
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Here’s what I’ll have with me at the Alpena Mercantile tomorrow (Apr 22). All of these are in pots. You can also reserve these to be picked up at the nursery by emailing me (), and I’ll update the list to strike out the sold out if I get the email this evening. Otherwise, I’ll
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