Hello friends welcome to Gardening with Creekside today we are on a tour of the production facility
of Pleasant View Gardens in New Hampshire, we were just here uh well Pleasant View the other day
at in their Loudoun location touring their display gardens we came over to their Pembroke location
because this is where they have a huge amount of their production facility we thought it would be
really fun to walk through the different areas of the production facility so that you can understand
and appreciate how your proven winter annuals come to be and how they come to be from
there to here to you to me to everybody the heat is getting to me
it is hot in new hampshire people um what we are standing in front of right now are what we call
iso machines iso iso machines these in a nutshell are robotic arms that take the cuttings so so many
of our premium winter annuals come from cuttings in south america there are the mother plants that
are down there there are folks that take snippets cuttings they get shipped here to new hampshire
and those cuttings get dumped onto this conveyor belt as it runs um it goes down the conveyor belt
and there is a robotic arm i know it's probably hard to see we have i do have footage from when
we were at spring meadow because spring meadow has the iso machines as well but this is basically a
robotic arm that knows how to very gently pick up those cuttings they know which end is up which end
is down they will stick it in trays and then on the conveyor belt it runs it out where the
folks can then grab them and put them out into the areas for them to grow and take rooting
here at pleasant view they can produce 10 000 liners i mean that's right 10 000 liners an hour
they run these machines run for 23 hours and right now they have five iso machines their own
schedule to get two more so they will have a total of seven iso machines which will be the largest
number of iso machines in a production facility in the country why are they using iso machines
they can't find the labor force so this makes it um a much more efficient way to use these iso
machines and when you're having a struggle finding labor this certainly helps so what we're going
to do now is just we're going to kind of move on down to a different area of the production video
facility and we're going to see what's going on i don't know where we're going
to go so we're just going to have fun you'll notice that we are wearing our plastic gloves
this is a requirement to keep everything sanitary in the production facility because
you never know we could have some sort of little rare bacteria on our fingers and we certainly do
not want to harm these beauties so off to the next area we go all right so here we are um in
the area this is for the local garden centers up in the northeast so pleasantview will supply local
garden centers with retail ready finished material and this is all for fall production right so this
is for going into the garden centers for the fall so you can see there's a whole selection there's
grasses there's sunflowers there's caliber colas there's all sorts of fun mixes in here
that can come in you will notice that they are using the boom so the boom is really great because
it does multiple things one right now i don't know exactly what it's doing other than it could be
watering it could be fertilizing and feeding those plants so that is a fantastic way you can see it
has that dosatron fertigation system on there and it's running everybody's getting nice and fed
but you can create different zones within that sprayer so if one crop needs a fertilizer and
the other one doesn't then they can program it that way you'll also notice on the ground all the
the floor is concrete so what's really fun about these production facilities is that they have
flooding floors and that is a mouthful you'll notice that they have a great little rubber
lip here and then these massive huge holes that run the length of this bay what happens
is when they are ready to water the plants water will come up from the bottom hangs
out for a little bit the plants all soak it up and then when the watering time is done
it'll go back down through those holes so this is a fantastic way to water these plants
and you will notice that also because this is going to be like retail ready
they have every other pot is taken out so they can get nice and full and thick when they get
to the folks it's nice and just gorgeous plants but this is when you wish we were a
little closer to pleasant view so we could take advantage of this so if your garden center is up
in the northeast who knows maybe you're getting your annuals from pleasantview you probably are
okay so here we are on the outside of the growing area at pleasant view a hundred thousand mums this
is what they do in a season for their retail ready partners here we have all of the hanging baskets
right so it is mom's hanging basket and very very similar setup to what we have at creekside you've
got the irrigation pipe running down and then the drippers the drip tape that just runs and
they are it's actually running right now so you can hear the water running they will of course
fertilize also through this back over in loudon where we were for the garden tour they had their
um just their traditional pots right so these are the hanging baskets there were the pots but man i
mean there's just anything green that you see out here those are mums a hundred thousand that is a
crazy number oh i love it it's gorgeous it's gonna be gorgeous in a couple of weeks when everybody
starts to pop their color be a lot of fun all right we're gonna move on to the next thing
i just have to show you this right people look at this look at that purple fountain grass is
this not gorgeous there are so many beautiful things in here that they are getting ready
and other ones have their plumes on them already this one has little baby plumes in there
so we've got the purple fountain grass then of course the much beloved sun credible saturns
oh look does that not just scream fall for you absolutely gorgeous so if you are living in the
northeast and you have a local garden center that you love and they're not buying their stuff from
pleasant view you need to contact them contact pleasantview have them get some of this stuff
because i would just man i would love to have this in my yard oh my gosh absolutely gorgeous things
all right so pleasantview is doing exactly what we have talked about with creekside right you
are using plants that you may have bought in the springtime so for example here we have supermena
royale plum wine you notice they have these fantastic little fall magic pots but they're
using those annuals that you buy in the spring early summer and they're recreating them
to use in the fall and they have i mean like this whole area is verbena right so there is
the plum there's peachy keen there's the red all sorts of fantastic colors using
your super bells your calibrachoas and mix containers there's prince tut over there with
not only sweet potato vine but like the chocolate drop coleus and then we pan over here and they
have got like all your super bells so if you don't want to buy a pre-made recipe and you
want to create your own well there you go here is of course the super bells yellow
gorgeous fantastic plant that you can create um and use them in your own containers like
with the uh who is this exactly this is the raven i mean like look at that
gorgeous container beautiful so pleasant view they understand that using these heat loving annuals
in the late summer early fall to give you that fall feel is just an absolute genius idea
they have at pleasant view total about 20 acres what they call under glass so that's these green
houses lots of production facilities and then of course they do have their proven selections
like they're cool other things right there swiss chard so forth that you can put in
their cabbages and kales to give you even that more of that fall color but
don't be afraid to use your annuals for your fall color genius idea love it
last year when we were here visiting it was almost exactly a year ago that we were here
and everything that you see right now was nothing but bare dirt they have been very
busy little producers around here tons of gorgeous new greenhouses that they have put up all of the
concrete of course the concrete floors all the infrastructure is up and going just massive growth
here at pleasantview what you're looking at right now is they're more of that finished products
for their local garden centers that they can source so we've got nothing but hostas on one
side we've got beautiful grasses and eucharis you can see there's some coreopsis this whole area
right now is just tons of perennials that they can source their local garden centers here in the
northeast i told paul's like man i wish i could ship some stuff to north carolina because that
those beautiful fall products are just gorgeous but you'll notice that they have the booms on
each bay so that way they can of course water from the floor they're going to do that they can also
do the fertilizer if they need to do some sort of insecticide or herbicide if there's some sort of
problem in the crop that they need to address then they can use those booms to address all of those
maybe situations and then coming in here you will see all the gorgeous hanging baskets
up here you do not see a dripper but they do have emitters right above each of these hanging baskets
just gorgeous using those again those super bells those supertunias you've got verbenas you've got
sweet potato vines lots of really fun gorgeous color to go out into you know those garden centers
and then of course all the summer riffics look at these gorgeous summer riftic hibiscuses they are
they do have the booms in here and the booms can go i don't know if they can go up and down i don't
think they can now that these summer riftics have gotten so big they are on drippers though there is
a line that you will see and they have that drip tape going to each one of these they the summer
rivets may have gotten a little bit too big and the boom can't go over them now so they've got
that drip on them fantastic of course you see that cranberry crush and the evening rows and
very awesome all sorts of fun things they just have beautiful beautiful plants here i
do want to share with you how they heat these greenhouses because i think that's a very
interesting method that they use here in new hampshire because obviously new hampshire
gets quite chilly in the winter time over when they um in what they call the loudoun
facilities that is each of the greenhouses or a lot of the greenhouses are segmented
right they're standalones by themselves here everybody is connected you don't have to go
outside during the winter and loudon if they have to move a plant from one greenhouse to the next
they have to tent them insulate them because it is so cold outside a lot of people will ask
well why do we have you know huge greenhouses where it's really cold there's probably a whole
host of reasons for that but i think it's really interesting that what you're looking at behind me
is their heat source basically pleasant view is um on kind of the cusp the cutting edge using
alternative fuels if you would rather say instead of like coal oil extremely expensive then there's
a whole you know the the environmental aspect of that what they use are wood chips actual
wood chips that are a byproduct of the lumber timber industry so they have this huge
massive system that burner where they can burn these wood chips and then pipe out that hot heat
that runs through all of these greenhouses it is a very huge intricate system i am just giving you
the absolute basic bare necessities on that but just understand that they are using a by-product
a waste by-product from that timber industry using those wood chips to heat all of these fantastic
greenhouses that bring us our beautiful proven winter's annuals again i just want to say a huge
thank you to paul the whole team here at pleasant view the huntingtons being so gracious to let us
come once again and have a behind the scenes tour of how these fantastic plants get to be
both at creekside and in your house as always i hope you found it fun and interesting we
appreciate you thanks so much y'all have a great day and we'll see in the next video bye friends
oh wow are y'all just behind me hundred thousand all right 100 like 100 100 yeah
yeah and the irrigation is running i might want to check that one okay here we go
we'll start down here