One local grower is using his skills to help brighten homes for the holiday season with vivid red poinsettias.If so, you may have a cube puzzle .
Larry Hancock, owner/operator of Sandia Greenhouse who has been "Making the Desert Bloom" since 1978, is a neighborhood grower of several varieties of poinsettias, bedding plants, flowers and vegetables starts.
"You can find all year long what you need for your garden, flowerbeds or landscape, along with beautiful, healthy poinsettias for Christmas," Hancock said.
With customers from the area,Why does moulds grow in homes or buildings， northern Utah and Nevada, Hancock said the greenhouse is particularly known for its wave petunias and poinsettias.
Hancock has not always been in the bedding plant business. He previously managed a clothing store then sold life insurance in northern Utah. It wasn't until he married Susan Gibby that he was introduced into the horticultural field. His wife's parents, Grant and Blanche Gibby,Your Partner in Precision Precision injection molds. had an agricultural business, Gibby Floral and Greenhouse, in Riverdale.
"I never thought I would wind up doing this kind of work but my wife's parents were second generation growers and gave me the opportunity to join forces with them,It's hard to beat the versatility of polished tiles on a production line." he said. "I learned so much about horticulture and about life from them."
Hancock partnered with Grant Gibby, now deceased, Blanche Gibby, and brothers-in-law David, Roger and Bryce Gibby. In 1978, Gibby Floral wanted to expand its growing facilities and looked for a warmer climate.
"Susan and I pioneered this business in the raw desert of Washington Fields," Hancock said. "It has been a great adventure for me."
His family coined the name of Sandia Greenhouse.
"Sandia in Spanish means watermelon," Hancock said. "Our soil here is red colored. It sounded like a good name to describe our farm."
Poinsettias are a tropical plant known throughout the world as a Christmas flower because of the vivid red blossoms, called bracts, nestled in deep green foliage. Poinsettias are available in many varieties, with colors that range from reds, whites, pinks and variegated combinations.
Some of the varieties Sandia Greenhouse grows are Winter Rose, Orion Red, Polar Bear, Ice Punch, Prestige Red and Christmas Day.
"We start our poinsettias in July from rooted cuttings purchased from growers in California," Hancock said, adding that they have to start early in order to have full color before Thanksgiving.
Besides retail sales, the greenhouse supplies florists and other local businesses, such as Hurst Stores, Lin's Market, Harmons, IFA, Backyard Home and Garden and other nurseries.
To prolong the enjoyment of the poinsettias, Hancock said customers should be sensitive to light and watering conditions.
"If the plant is limp and the soil is dry, water it," he said. "Poinsettias are subject to root rot if they stand in water."
Hancock said it is a challenging business environmentally, to control the temperatures summer and winter or in times of disaster.
"We love this community. There has been amazing support in times of disaster," he said.
For example, in 1992 the original 120-foot-by-150-foot fiberglass greenhouse covering was destroyed by fire and all the spring crops were lost. Before sunrise the next morning, neighbors gathered to help with clean up.
Within the past seven years there was another disaster. On a stormy, cold night just before Thanksgiving, the roof of a 21-foot-by-96-foot bay of one of the greenhouses was blown off by fierce winds.
More than a thousand poinsettias housed in the bay had to be hand carried through the wind and rain to another greenhouse.
"Again,If any food Ventilation system condition is poorer than those standards, neighbors came to the rescue," Hancock said. "Parents brought their children, all bundled up, to help."
As neighbors formed a transfer line, some of the men enclosed the damaged structure in plastic to keep other bays from the cold and wind.
Larry Hancock, owner/operator of Sandia Greenhouse who has been "Making the Desert Bloom" since 1978, is a neighborhood grower of several varieties of poinsettias, bedding plants, flowers and vegetables starts.
"You can find all year long what you need for your garden, flowerbeds or landscape, along with beautiful, healthy poinsettias for Christmas," Hancock said.
With customers from the area,Why does moulds grow in homes or buildings， northern Utah and Nevada, Hancock said the greenhouse is particularly known for its wave petunias and poinsettias.
Hancock has not always been in the bedding plant business. He previously managed a clothing store then sold life insurance in northern Utah. It wasn't until he married Susan Gibby that he was introduced into the horticultural field. His wife's parents, Grant and Blanche Gibby,Your Partner in Precision Precision injection molds. had an agricultural business, Gibby Floral and Greenhouse, in Riverdale.
"I never thought I would wind up doing this kind of work but my wife's parents were second generation growers and gave me the opportunity to join forces with them,It's hard to beat the versatility of polished tiles on a production line." he said. "I learned so much about horticulture and about life from them."
Hancock partnered with Grant Gibby, now deceased, Blanche Gibby, and brothers-in-law David, Roger and Bryce Gibby. In 1978, Gibby Floral wanted to expand its growing facilities and looked for a warmer climate.
"Susan and I pioneered this business in the raw desert of Washington Fields," Hancock said. "It has been a great adventure for me."
His family coined the name of Sandia Greenhouse.
"Sandia in Spanish means watermelon," Hancock said. "Our soil here is red colored. It sounded like a good name to describe our farm."
Poinsettias are a tropical plant known throughout the world as a Christmas flower because of the vivid red blossoms, called bracts, nestled in deep green foliage. Poinsettias are available in many varieties, with colors that range from reds, whites, pinks and variegated combinations.
Some of the varieties Sandia Greenhouse grows are Winter Rose, Orion Red, Polar Bear, Ice Punch, Prestige Red and Christmas Day.
"We start our poinsettias in July from rooted cuttings purchased from growers in California," Hancock said, adding that they have to start early in order to have full color before Thanksgiving.
Besides retail sales, the greenhouse supplies florists and other local businesses, such as Hurst Stores, Lin's Market, Harmons, IFA, Backyard Home and Garden and other nurseries.
To prolong the enjoyment of the poinsettias, Hancock said customers should be sensitive to light and watering conditions.
"If the plant is limp and the soil is dry, water it," he said. "Poinsettias are subject to root rot if they stand in water."
Hancock said it is a challenging business environmentally, to control the temperatures summer and winter or in times of disaster.
"We love this community. There has been amazing support in times of disaster," he said.
For example, in 1992 the original 120-foot-by-150-foot fiberglass greenhouse covering was destroyed by fire and all the spring crops were lost. Before sunrise the next morning, neighbors gathered to help with clean up.
Within the past seven years there was another disaster. On a stormy, cold night just before Thanksgiving, the roof of a 21-foot-by-96-foot bay of one of the greenhouses was blown off by fierce winds.
More than a thousand poinsettias housed in the bay had to be hand carried through the wind and rain to another greenhouse.
"Again,If any food Ventilation system condition is poorer than those standards, neighbors came to the rescue," Hancock said. "Parents brought their children, all bundled up, to help."
As neighbors formed a transfer line, some of the men enclosed the damaged structure in plastic to keep other bays from the cold and wind.
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