The Kerby's Nursery E-Newsletter November 7, 2019 | ||||||
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Bye-bye BooBoo
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by Joey Bokor
Some of you may remember BooBoo as a regular fixture at Kerby's back in the early 2000s. She would come to work with Vicki each day and had a shelf behind the counter that was all hers. She would sit there and hang out, occasionally barking at customers or staff members that walked by. As the day would go on, she would curl up in a bed on her shelf and take a little afternoon nap. Many people stopped in the nursery just to see BooBoo.
So bye-bye BooBoo. We will all miss you and we hope you know that even though you were small you had a huge impact on lots of people's lives. |
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The Weekly Special It's almost the end of the fall planting season so take advantage of this sale and get those last cool-season veggies planted now. Cannot be combined with other offers. In Stock Items Only Exclusively for the Kerby's Community | ||||||
Garden Tip Tillandsias or Air Plants are easy to take care of. They thrive in a bright patio and are also good for growing indoors. Just follow the tips below and they'll thrive in your home, office, porch or patio. Watering: Because these are air plants, watering them will be a little different than your typical plant. Tillandsias that are outside in our area will need very little additional watering. The humidity in the air will take care of that! If your tillandsias are indoors, then mist them a few times a week to keep the humidity up, and every one to two weeks, submerge them in water for 2 – 3 hours. Avoid using softened water, and if your tap water has chlorine, let it sit for 20 – 30 minutes to allow the chlorine to dissipate. Water tillandsias in the morning, so that by evening they've absorbed the water they need. Light: Provide tillandsias with bright, filtered light. Most do not like direct sunlight, but they do need some sunlight, so if they are indoors, make sure they are in a bright location. Typical interior lights won't give them the light that they need. Fertilizer: Use a light fertilizer solution on your tillandsias once per month. Mix the fertilizer with water and use it to mist or to soak the plants. Blooms: Each tillandsia variety has its own unique bloom. Because tillandsia are in the bromeliad family, each plant will flower once in its lifetime, but will create little pups (new plants) that will bloom again. Display: Be creative and show off your personal style by displaying your tillandsias in your own unique way. Almost anything that can hold a tillandsia can be used as a container, from concrete pots to metal springs, glass globes to fishing line and everything in between! |
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Kerby's Nursery 2311 S. Parsons Ave. Seffner, FL 33584 (813) 685-3265 www.kerbysnursery.com |
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