" You've got your plant list with you?"

" I brought my plant list."

" Well, you faxed me a copy the other day and it looks pretty good. It looks like I have almost everything on you."

" Where should we get started? When you got a thousand acres, it is not like you just go pick out some pots right?"

" Well, it's Clara's design let's hear what she's to say."

" Let's look at the perennials first."

" Okay. What do we have here?"

" This is a silver mound that Clara had on her plan."

" It is also called Artemisia and it is an example of a wonderful foliage perennial. It has this great silver green foliage. We're gonna plant a row of this in front daylilies. We'll have the bright green foliage of the daylilies, then we'll have these wonderful plant that will stay like this from spring to fall."

" No flowers? "

" No really, you plant it just for what you see here."

" How many of these?"

" We'll need 30."

" Oh. How much are they?"

" $4.95 a piece."

" Okay, so that's a $150 dollars worth of artemisia, huh?"

" And well worth it."

" What else are you putting in?"

" We are gonna use sedum near the artemisia."

" What's sedum? I'm not familiar with that?"

" Well, it's right over here, let's go look."

" It's a wonderful succulent plant."

" So, you call this a succulent huh?"

" That's right."

" Why is that?"

" They have these wonderful fleshy leaves."

" Can I tear one off?"

" You sure can."

" Oh, yeah. They are kinda like, they feel like, they're leathery, but they're very moist, like water-filled."

" A lot of moisture inside----"

" Wow! Yeah."

" that withstand drought conditions."

" Uh huh."

" They're really one of the easiest care perennials that I know off to plant."

" Now, it's a neat choice because you just showed us that silver-green-grey-kind of plant."

" That's right."

" The Artemisia and now this is kind of an apple green with pink."

" Right."

" You really have to know your colors, don't you?"

" You do. And this one, you do plant for the foliage. It has a wonderful rosy-red flower. A lot of tiny little flowers but they're so massed that it looks like a great expanse of rosy-pink."

" And they are taller than the other plant. Now how many of these will you get?"

" We need 20 of them."

" Now, daylilies are a pretty common flower, aren't they?"

" They are, but there are 35,000 different varieties."

" Wow!"

" And we only need to choose three. Aren't these beautiful?"

" Some sort of a hybrid here, what's this called?"

" Right. This is Frances [unk]."

" Very pretty. Now how come they are planted in the ground here? Why don't you have them in containers?"

" Well, we're gonna dig these this soil and divide them Bob, and then we'll pot them up and offer them for sale the following year, but I'm sure we could sneak a few out before we do that."

" And you said we need about 70?"

" Well, were gonna pick three different varieties. These are late bloomers."

" Uh huh."

" And they will bloom for about two weeks, so if we pick early bloomers and middle bloomers, will have a beautiful display of flowers for about six weeks starting in July."

" Staggering."

" That's right."

" Why they are called daylilies? For the obvious?"

" The blossoms last only a day but as you can see, each flowers stalk has many blooms on it----"

" Sure."

" so as soon as one fades, another one blooms."

" Sure."

" Okay, so we've looked at lots of perennials, how about looking at some evergreens or some bushes?"

" Well, we need to select some enkianthus and some inkberry."

" That's over my head. Where do we see that?"

" Well, we have to take a ride."

" Okay."

" Clara, here is the compact inkberry you expect."

" Oh, good. We need 8 of these."

" Why do they call it inkberry?"

" Well it has a nice quite a nice black berry that's very attractive to birds but was originally used for inks."

" Oh, really? So this does not drop its leaves, huh?"

" That's right it's a broad-leaved evergreen."

" Yeah."

" You can see the wide leaves. It's not a needle evergreen."

" Yeah. You always think of evergreen of being pine trees, but I guess you get a lot of bushes that are like these."

" Right like rhododendron."

" Very pretty against the snow in the winter. Now, this is all some sort of Holly. isn't it?"

" Yeah. That's a blue princess holly."

" But you are talking about enkianthus as the other choice?"

" That's right. We need some acanthus."

" They're right over here Bob."

" I really like these one. It has beautiful red stems. I like the way the leaves on all enkianthus. The leaves are concentrated at the tip, which gives it an attractive appearance."

" Uh huh."

" It has marvelous fall color. We get a bright yellow or orange fall color. It has nice little bell-shaped flowers in the spring."

" But it drops all its leaves in the winter."

" That's correct. It's deciduous. It is not evergreen."

" How tall will it get?"

" It gets about 6 to 8 feet and it has a nice branch structure so even without leaves,----"

" Uh huh."

" it's an attractive plant."

" And how many did you say you want to put into the plan?"

" We need 3 against 1 for the side of the house."

" Yeah. Now tell me, these are all being dug up here. Were they started from seed out here in the field?"

" No these were started from seed in the greenhouse,----"

" Uh huh."

" and they stayed there about a year. We will let it out for 2 to 3 years and then transplant it to wider spacing out here, and they've been here for probably another 3 years."

" So, they could be 6 or 7 years old."

" Sure."

" Wow! And where do you get one? How much are they in retail?"

" Well about $60 a piece."

" That's not bad considering how much investment and time and you have here."

" Well, we don't think so."

" Yeah. Well, maybe we should a tag a few before they take all the good ones."

" okay we need to tag 3."

" You like these one Clara?"

" Yeah. Absolutely."

" Yeah, let's take this one."

" Sold."