Newsletter

Fall 2024

Greetings from Rosebay Nursery,

We have enjoyed a good growing season this year with great employees.  I wish it would rain more, but Michigan has avoided extreme weather events, making it a good place to grow plants.

Our availability list is ready but unfortunately it is lacking smaller plants.  We have good numbers of Pieris and Azaleas, but smaller sized large leaf plants are very limited.  We have more coming along, but they will not be ready this coming Spring. When Covid hit 4 years ago (I know everyone blames Covid for everything but….) I wasn’t sure how things would go so we didn’t propagate.  This is affecting us now, we have a hole in the inventory.  I see the errors of my thinking and am so sorry to let our customers down.  We hope to be back to “normal” next year.

Here are some plants that deserve your consideration:

Once again our Pieris are amazing.  All 5 varieties are well budded and ready to go.  And they come in various sizes, even 10-12”.

Azalea Poukhanese are a vibrant pink, hardy and available in many sizes.

Baden-Baden is back on our list.  We have some medium to large sizes with many more on the way.  One of our favorites.

PJM, Plane View Apple Blossom and Olga Mezitt are nicely budded.  We keep them trimmed so they are full.

Teddy Bear has stunning foliage and a cinnamon colored indumentum.  Actually all of our Yak crosses have grown well.

We have photos of all of these and more below.

Please be flexible with your order and we will do our best!

All the best,

Linda, Lucci, David, Becky and the Crew