75 percent off

Barker Creek nursery has a 50 - 75 percent off sale. There regular prices are very good, but the sale prices are great. They are located on M72 outside Traverse City.

Gary

thanks Gary I'll be in T C this week end!!!!!!!! where from the cherry land Mall is it??
Gloria

I can tell you, I live just down the road. Barker Creek is on M72, between Kalkaska and Williamsburg. It's on the North side of the road and about 6 miles out of Kalkaska. They have wonderful shrubs! If you are coming from the mall. Head north on 31 like you were going to the resort or Elk Rapids and turn on 72 at Acme. Barker Creek is about 6 miles past the casino.

I have spent so much money snapping up great deals at the local nuseries, I'm almost glad this one is too far away. (Ok, I wish I WAS closer.)
; )

Is that the place i saw that had daylilies and iris planted
Like a big farm??
I wish they were an online site!!!(dangerous)

Nope, you're thinking of the iris farm on the OTHER end of 72. That place is fabulous! I try to go out for the iris bloom and the lilly bloom. They have every one imaginable, even an iris that smells like root beer! Barker Creek is on 72 East. 72 runs into the East bay at Acme and then picks up again on the west side of Traverse City by the west bay and goes all the way to lake Michigan. (I wish they could build bridges, it would sure save time around here. SOmetimes it takes me an hour to get to someplace that I can actually see across the bays.

Yea thats the one we were driving from the dunes to the hotel when i saw it(late Aug)
I luv iris too! i have one that smells like grape soda!

IRIS'...a very tough breed.
I really like them but the wife doesn't. She got tired of them before we got married several years ago. She had a small plot with several flowers in it and the iris' took it over except for the larger plants up front.
When I dug them up, the root system was so intwined and thick, I had to use a pick ax to break them apart. But that isn't the end of my story.
I put them in my compost pile out back last fall and in the dead of winter, those buggers began growing up through the snow. Long very green shoots looking as if to say, "I'M BAAAACK!".
I am still trying to rid the side of the house where she put some to thin out the pack before we "hitched-up"..

I had iris survive in a chicken pen. My die hards are the lavender ones. You can't kill them! But look crosseyed at the EXPENSIVE ones and they're history.

Ok Iris lovers. I've lost just about all of mine. I had 200+ and it seems my soil is so rich that I get iris borer or maybe I'm full of it. But the ones in a dry, poor soil seem to fair better with the iris borer. Anybody have any ideas on that???
I have the richest, composted, manured, fed garden beds. It seems all my hybrid iris
have died off or are so small from year to year because the rizonmes are eaten up
that they eventually die out . HELP! I never had this problem in drier soil.
What do you think??? I really hate using insecticide. What can I do????

no ideas why you have so much problems with them
Ive had a few here and there over the yrs

id would say spray! but im no expert!
have you posted this on the iris forum?

No! That is a good idea.
I am new here so I will have to find my way there. Thanks a lot NotMartha ( the home of those gorgeous RED HEADS!! and the great garden pictures that made me jealous!)