Working on the website!

  I have been relearning basic website design as fast as I can!  It is complicated!  I could not figure out why my DreamWeaver program kept uploading files to the wrong folders on the server.  The server is the place that publishes your website, so to speak.  And it has to have all of the necessary files.
  So every time you make changes, you have to upload them to the server.
  And every time I did this, they would wind up in the wrong place.
  Today I relearned why and fixed it.
  Plus, I updated the shipping page, the Species page, the Gift Shop page, and most important for now, the Lavender Wands page.
  I have not yet added PayPal buttons so you can make purchases of lavender wands directly from the website.  But that is next!  It involves inserting code into very specific places.  Makes me nervous!  Because I am not proficient in html code.
 Meanwhile, here is the update page:  LavenderWands.html

Fuchsia boliviana Seedlings!

600 seedlings are doing great!  As soon as they are big enough and if the weather is safe to ship them in, a new PayPal button will be added to the revamped website.  So excited!

New Website Is Up And Running!

I was finally able to relearn enough about Dreamweaver CS5.5 to get the website back up and updated. It wasn't easy because my books are about the CS3 version and my version CS5.5 is already 6 years behind the current version!

I still need to work for a living, so time is still very tight.  So at first, I will be adding my lavender wands and ceramics.  As soon as new fuchsias and other plants are available, I will be adding them as well depending on the weather.  For most parts of the country, it is already going to be to hot to risk shipping small starts.  But if all goes well, I will be able to ship during that sweet spot in the fall when it is no longer too hot and not yet too cold.  This will give the starts more of chance to grow as well.

The seedlings of F. boliviana are doing very well and I will post photos of them again soon!
Here is a link to the website :pedrickscorner.com
What do you think of my new banner?

The Kids Are Doing Great!

I hope to begun transplanting them in about a week.

New Baby Fuchsia boliviana's

These babies are just a week old.  They herald a new beginning for Pedricks Corner this year.  Stay tuned for updates! 

Meanwhile, I am working on a whole new updated website.  You will be the first to know when it is up and running.  Thanks!

Will There Be Fuchsias? I hope so!

I am sincerely hoping that I get to start making fuchsia cuttings again soon this year!  I may not have as many upright varieties as I had hoped, but my main goal of furthering the interest in growing upright fuchsias which have the ability to live over 100 years, goes on!

Right now though, I have to continue to focus on making a living if I am to have any hope at all of doing that.  And I need help.

Please visit this new website and please click through to the stores and to my lavender stores on EBay and Etsy.  Lavender and ceramics is how I hope to finance a new start and even just clicking through helps build traffic.  Like a path, the more it is traveled, the wider and better defined that path is.

And hopefully, I will be able to help those around me as well!
Please click on this link to Artisans Of America!  Like the Facebook page.  Follow it on Pinterest!
ArtisansOfAmerica

These guys down below, are waiting for me to come make cuttings!

Happy New Year 2017

  I know it has been almost five years now since I have been able to offer fuchsia starts for sale.  It has been a rocky road ever since I moved the nursery and it froze and then the deer ate everything that tried to come up.
  This fall, right when I was finished making the lavender wands which have been getting me through the winters, I fell twice and hurt my tail bone so badly that I could barely walk.  And since it was necessary to work anyways, I just didn't have anything left over in me to be able to also make cuttings.  The next thing I knew, it was too cold to make cuttings.  Since I do not use a heated greenhouse, it is vital that cuttings be made when the weather is warm enough for them to grow.
  I never used heated greenhouses because the whole point of growing upright fuchsia varieties and species, was to grow vigorous and strong starts that will not go into shock when they are planted out in the elements.
  I haven't even made any attempts to cover any of the fuchsias to protect them from freezing, so I haven't even been looking at them much.  I didn't want to see damage from not having the time to protect them.  
  Etsy has become a world wide flea market and I have only sold half of my lavender wand inventory instead of running out before the end of the year.  They have not only included everything from everywhere, they have disabled our abilities to help each other be noticed.  And since few people even know lavender wands exist, let alone search for them, I was very dependent on the various ways we who have Etsy stores used to feature each other.
  So I have been spending every waking moment trying to sell lavender!
  This Christmas, I happened to look up at the Fuchsia boliviana growing next to my front door and was shocked to see it blooming!!  This bush is almost 8 feet tall right now and I was expecting to look up and see frost damage, not flowers!  
  Bottom line is, even if I have lost many of my original stock plants, I am going to at least try to get species starts going as soon as the weather and working to make ends meet allows.  I have also decided that since so many of the cultivars I was trying to save from being lost, the heirloom varieties, may now be impossible to find, I am going to finally try my hand at hybridizing with what I have.  That should be very exciting!  My goal will be big, strong, fast growing, upright bushes! 
  Even if you are not interested in purchasing lavender items, you can help make a difference by visiting the new ArtistsOfAmerica website and increasing traffic to it by sharing.  Selling the lavender is vital to being able to start fuchsias again this coming February in order to have new starts available by April.
  Thanks!!