A gardener unboxes dormant plants from TN Nursery and soaks them for two hours as instructed. The shipment includes Jack-in-the-Pulpit, lady fern, Christmas fern, butterfly weed, swamp milkweed, and white trillium, mostly outdoor plants that will go into planters before being transplanted based on hardiness zone.
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Have you ever gotten a box of what appears to be dead plants? But I promise you, they're supposed to look like this. The nursery that these plants are all from ship plants dormant. All the plants in these baggies are just sleeping. This says open immediately and soak for 2 hours, so that's what we're gonna do. I have a bucket of water and we're gonna soak everything for a couple hours before I plant. This one is Jack in the Pulpit. I don't actually know what any of these look like. I'm gonna put pictures on the screen here. Pretty sure these are mostly outdoor plants. There's no like tropical indoor plants in this assortment, a lot of outdoor landscaping stuff, but I'm still into —this is a lady fern. We do actually have a little bit of growth on this. Christmas ferns. Seems like the ferns have some vegetation already. Butterfly weed. I wonder if that would be good for the pollinators. Just a couple of rhizomes here. Swamp milkweed. Yes, there's a difference in milkweeds. Actually quite the root system. And white trillium. Couple more rhizomes there. So that's all that was in the box. Letting them soak for a couple hours before I pot them up. These are going to go in planters for now. I have to do some more research on what can go in the ground in my zone. That's going to be it for now. Just That's the unboxing today, and then in a couple months I should have some growth progress for you.