We getting a spring price list togather now, send us a e-mail if you would like to get it
Email: p_mcneal@mcnealgrowers.com
Thanks for dropping by the web site. It's the best place to get information on our operation. We have started a new phase of our business.
We are now going to try to reach out to more customers so all the cool new plants we are growing get out to gardeners. Click on the button on the left that says "Catalog 2011" It will open the PDF file and to keep it on your computer just hit the save icon on the toobar. It has a lot of new information on our plants. There are many Great new plants for Texas.
They are all Selected to grow well in the kinds of conditions we have along the IH 35 corridor. Dallas to San Antonio. I have just finished a brochure on penstemons nad it has 4 new species for this season.I will send out a notice to the e-mail list when I get them finsihed We have Texas Bluebells, Hill country Red Columbine, Penstemon cobaea, Phlox pilosa, Manfreda maculosa, Penstemon tenuis, Lyre Leaf Sage "Volcano", Wright's blue skullcap and lots more cool stuff We have settled on pots and pot sizes. I found good quality pots and plan to have quarts in flats of 8. Nice sturdy pots and flats that we will put are larger species in. They are smaller than a 1 gallon and we can sell them cheaper so the public can try more variety of plants for less expenses than with 1 gallons.
The ground covers will be in deep, 3.25 inch individual pots in 18 count trays which happen to be pints so there is symmetry there with only pints and quarts. I have found a cool Application for my Smart Phone. It's called sqaure and allows us to take credit card payments. It's not tied to a land line so we can take payment anywhere that has phone service. You see lots of succulents for sale but they are usually not idientifed well or have little or no information about how to grow them. Over the last two years we have been gathering up all the hardy succulents we can find.
We want to have a list of succulents that can also be used as landscape plants. The next information page will be all about succulents. Two years back I collected quite a bit of Bluebell (Eustoma Grandiflora) seed and it has come up like gang busters. We will have a good supply of this hard to find native (instead of all those Japanese and dutch mutants). They key to growing this plant is to plant it in the fall.
And it will bloom the next spring starting in May or June. This is one of the most spectacular Texas wild flowers. It has huge flowers blue flowers that make the best cut flowers that can last up to 2 weeks cut. Plant it as a
landscape plant or in a cutting garden. Another great fall plant is our native red columbine. I found some old seed and planted it and it surprised me by coming up pretty good. It is another great native that is good to plant in the fall
and let it grow over the cool season so it's substantial enough bloom well in the spring.
There is a color catalog on the site. You can also download a PDF version. This year instead of creating a whole new catalog
I am going to put out various PDF files with the new plants listed. Then on the spring avialbility list we will have prices and sizes
We are going to have many new hard to find native perennials available limited quanities.
We have added many new cold Hardy Succulents.This includes some of the coolest dwarf cold hardy Aloes
The Quarts are Here.
We have lots of new and exciting plants, so I hope you can take time to look through the catalog. Plus check back here because over the summer I am going to add quite a few fall-centric species.
We found many of the larger succulent like Aloes and Echeverias were too big in the 4" trays so most have gone up to quarts. We found some nice 8-pack trays to go with the extra durable quart pots we are now using.
Don't Forget the Sedge page.
There is a lot of confusion about sedges. I have taken the time to sit down with microscope and the keys for Carex and identified the ones we grow. The only way to identifiy a sedge is to look at the seed under a microsope.
It is the only way to know you can't just look at them and tell. It is important to know because knowing which species you have will let you know in what kinds of conditions it wil grow in.
If you plant the wrong sedge in the wrong place it won't grow and most likly die over the years.
If you like a challenge this is the place to start, The USDA species database for plant species of the US. US Sedges
