US (OR): Azalea nursery branches out
Though the azaleas upon which Fessler Nursery was founded will be cut from production this year, lush fuchsia plants and baskets are still a mainstay at the second-generation business. Some 20,000 fuchsia baskets leave the gates each year.
In addition to their own vegetative cuttings, the nursery receives up to 100,000 cuttings in a day from Selecta One. “We stick over 3 million cuttings,” Katy Fessler said. “It’s hard to say how many plants and baskets we sell; Marv estimates around 700,000 4-inch pots and about 80,000 baskets a year.”
Like the hanging baskets, Fessler poinsettias are popular material for community fund-raisers and the nursery has become a wide area’s go-to place for plant sale fund-raisers, whether Mother’s Day hanging baskets or the Christmas poinsettias.
Last year the nursery added a new section of greenhouses dedicated to the spring fund-raiser baskets.
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