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Welcome to the Glasshouse Works Online Catalogue. It is the end of February now and we are thrilled to announce that we have just been able to obtain the domain name of "www.ExoticPlants.com." This added to the domain you know us by for the last eight years of "www.rareplants.com" and "www.fineplants.com" rounds out the trio of names that denote what we represent to the plant enthusiast. We are pleased that you can search for us by the name you know us for, our exotic plants and flowers! You can also email us at "info@exoticplants.com." We hope to hear from you. Big news for all of those who have been Emailing us and wondering when we would be making some changes to the Website. The Website has just again been redesigned and updated for the 2005 shipping season. For some of our customers who have slow connection speeds, we now have an alternate version with fewer graphics so that the pages download much faster than our regular version. We have set this up so that if you are browsing with image intensive version you can click just under the Flash Image at the top of the page to go to the non-graphic version. At the top of the page on this faster downloading version you can in turn click to return to the same page with more images. You won't miss a thing on either versions. You can also make the decision about which online pages to view on the Welcome page; just click where it says "Connection Slow? Click Here." You can switch back and forth whenever you want. Those with DSL do not need to worry. Those of you with slow Dialup cennections may want to browse using the less graphic pages until you find what you want; you can then click and return or go to the pages with thumbnails and plant pictures. Enjoy of Website for 2005. We have our new Garden Arts Gallery with offering many garden objects and links to many artists studios and other home and garden supplies. We offer a new Studio, our Fine Arts Gallery which showcases local and international artists. These pages are both accessible from our welcome page. When you are browsing the Garden Arts Gallerys you will see at the bottom of each page a box of 24 images with links to special special interest Galleries. Some of these might warrant special comment here. We have our new growing page of supplies Garden Accessories like bonsai pots, fertilizer and soils. We have a new page of Garden Statuary. We are working in conjunction with Estate Lions to offer some fine Chinese statuary. You can view our offerings at Our Chinese Art Page. We also have links to original metal forged garden art at the Garden Forge. The Garden Forge page has just been amplified because of demand. Or perhaps you might want to visit the Dewey Studios for her famous cat images. The Dewey Studios have a new MiniCat offering and we now offer most of their wonder designs. Check it out! The Home and Garden Page has links to all the various galleries that we offer. From this page you can link to many individual galleries, including a new Ceramic Gallery which includes some wonder new imported Chinese dragons as well as many of our Mexican imports.
And the best news so far, due to so many requests, is the new Coleus Photo Gallery! It is now uploaded and functioning. It has been completely redesigned for 2005 with a new gallery format. It now lists close to 275 individual images of Coleus past, present and future. It is not an availability listing but a listing of the wide diversity of coleus plants that are available out there! Click here to go directly to it!The Gallery is composed to Thumbnails so that you can download it fairly quickly. Then each of the Thumbnails has an associated larger pictures which you can see by clicking on the Thumbnail. In addition to this, each of the Coleus in the catalogue listings has these same Thumbnail images to help in your ordering process. Click here to go the the Catalogue Listings of Coleus We have some new intros and new photos of NEW COLEUS, new ones for 2005 even, believe it or not. So later this month check this site out for even more coleus introductions. In addition to this, we have teamed up with the Ecke Plant Ranch and the "Flower Fields" line of plants for the "Stained Glassworks" series of coleus introductions. You can get to our new pages for information on the coleus that you can purchase nationally by going to our new Stainedglass Works website! This page lists information on the "Flower Fields" introductions and the "Stainedglass Works" series. You can get back to the main Glasshouse Works easily from this website location. And you can get to the new Coleus Gallery from this website too.
There are various services now available on the Net that link to Gardening sources of all kinds. The Garden Links pages are new; we list them here in case you want to bookmark them for future use. Click Here to go to our Links Page. We just uploaded a page for those of you bothered by deer, Links to what to do about deer visiting your garden. We have a wonderful Search Page for those of you needing to find if a plant or items is mentioned anywhere on our website. We are working to improve this search and hope to have it more specific soon. We have a Common Name Pages where you can scroll down and locate the common name of the plant you want and find its scientific name which you can then check to see if we offer it! Lot of new things this year.
And now for the seasonal comment. Things keep changing as the seasons go by! It is now the first of January 2005. We are having amazingly warm weather for this time of year. Today the temperatures are 55. We may have temps in the mid fifties until the middle of January. I hope this continues becase it means more items ready earlier for your orders. We have many plans for this year. We have increased the amount of pottery and supplies in the new showrooms this year immensely. This summer the Glasshouse Works will be a great treat for visitors. There are also several relatively "New" features
to our Website (they have the 
icon designation.) Be sure to view the Virtual Tour of the Gardens and greenhouses. This has just redone to include pictures from the 2004 summer season. This will take you from the front entry way through the various garden rooms with a final look at some of our tropicals. Next, we have just included some views of a beautiful Victorian Garden featuring coleus and other exotic tropicals used as summertime bedding plants. Check out our Victorian Garden link. This is an old section with pictures from several years back, but we feel it is one of the most astounding gardens we have seen. And finally, we have added a new Variegated Plant Gallery. Click Here to travel to the world of Variegated Plants. This Variegated plant listing has been revised and now includes almost 400 items. Enjoy.
We have revised the whole online catalogue this season. Most items will be available for shipping starting in April. Numerous items will be available for shipping as early as January, if weather permits. Items like Coleus are usually shipped in April and May. This is when they have the best color. Check with us when you order if you have a greenhouse or want the order shipped as soon as the plants are ready or when weather permits. During the summer months, orders often go out more quickly, because we have the outdoors to grow in too. Click here to go right to the main catalogue page! Our Everchanging Specialty List is now online for your perusal Click Here to go directly to some of the new listings for the 2005 season. For many of you the catalogue listings alone will be an eye opening adventure, but we have some super unusual items in our new Specialty List! Take a look.We have just amplified our new department, Garden Art and Gift Items. We have just renamed our website, Glasshouse Works, "Items for Home, Garden and Conservatory." The old logo was "Plants Traditional and Unusual." Both of these logos still apply! We have just expanded.
We have been adding some garden statuary and planting even more rare and distinctive plants in our display gardens. We think that you will enjoy a visit to our gardens this coming Spring and Summer. In fact, we have given several bus tours and had visitors from all over the globe. It is hard to keep the avid gardener down!! We have added some wonderful Chinese statuary. Most recent is a set of large red sunset marble Foo Dogs which oversee all the activities of the gardens! We also have Hercules at the entry to the garden. We have added a sundial on an ancient looking podium. Recently we installed a set of the four seasons statues, representing the seasons of the year. We are working to get two Mill Stones integrated into the designs. We have a stack of Circle Design brick to create some new pathways. Although this project is not finished yet, some of the circle brick has been installed and the design is looking good. . But we have added a pair of statuary Griffins to help guard the plants. We also have some gorgeous urns (not planted yet though). We also just installeda large fountain with water flowering gently over stone grapes. Looks rather Italianate. We now have the new statuary in stock in the garden, including a great angel, a Pan, a Dragon, and some cranes. By far the most popular of our ornaments for the yard continues to be our pond hippo (named Splash) which everyone young and old has to pet as they walk by as though it were really alive! We have recently added two wonderful granite elephants and a group of granite benches which are gradually being engraved by Richard Dickerson, our resident artist. You can look at a lot of his work in particular by going to his Granite Art Pages by clicking at the immediate left. We will be adding more statuary next year and enlarging out offerings of Garden Statuary for you, our customer. Come see.
Our 2003 master catalogue is still in effect. We consider it our master catalogue for the moment. If you have it, you do not need to request a new catalogue. It is a companion to the internet more than a compendium of plants. You can find the wide range of plants always on our website; the catalogue will list featured plants and our wonder collections of themed groupings for your garden and books and supplies. We will included numerous website addresses of where to find the rarer plants that you might want. If you want to be on our printed mailing list and did not receive your catalogue yet, let us know. Please visit our Website from time to time and bookmark it. Things are changing constantly on the website. We hope to see you at the greenhouses when you are in the area. Our Walk-In Sales area and nursery area will offer numerous distinctive perennials, unusual Asian herbs, grafted needled conifers, larger aquatics and decorative hanging baskets--categories we are unable to offer by mail order, but popular with our visiting colectors If you are travelling this summer and fall, be sure to drop by the gardens. We are open Fridays and Saturdays. We will be maintaining our new walk In Sales House during the winter months as well as the new Showroom. So you can come at any month during the year to pick our your houseplants and your home and garden art. We now have a Search Engine for the Website (which can be found near the Navigation Bar on various of our pages. We include it here for you convenience if you are interesting in looking for a particular plant.
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The legacy of Ameriflora has left a wonderful conservatory in Columbus, Ohio. This is the Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Garden. Located conveniently on Broad Street just East of downtown Columbus, this garden and conservatory houses a fine collection of exotics from around the world. We have been working closely with the Gardens. We just transferred a group of tropicals up to Columbus to be integrated with the collections there. Among these is a Pandanus collection and some very distincive specimen bromeliads. Our emphasis in working with the Conservatory is to upgrade the displays from a great display to a world class display! We will let you know of any interesting news as it happens this spring at the Franklin Park facility. Different shows and events are planned all year long. Call them for details when you are in the area: call (614)-645-8733 for the hours of the constantly changing shows and exhibits.
If you live in the Ohio area, contact the gardens for information on their tours (call (614)-645-5923 for more information).
You can now click on the logo at the left and see the updated information on this year's Cincinnati Flower Show. For those who live in this area of the country, as well as those planning a trip to Ohio next April, a key event needs to be put on the calendar:
Acclaimed by Spencer Christian & Martha Stewart, rated in the top ten flower & garden events in the United States by House Beautiful Magazine, it is the only N. American show to merit endorsement by the Royal Horticultural Society of Great Britain. Visit an extravaganza of growers, florists & designers from around the world with themed gardens, celebrity gardens, "single-genus" displays, exotic international exhibits, traditional afternoon teas, garden clinics, renowned lecturers, a "Gardener's Market," "Plant Market," and hand-crafted designer "Collage Market." You can see hear, learn, meet, & buy all at one spot. Each year gets better.
For those of you travelling to Ohio this summer looking for rare plants, we would like to recommend the nursery of Mike Massara, Out of Africa. You can call Mike if you are oing to be in the area to set up an appointment to tour his reenhouses and buy some rather distinctive Euphorbias and caudiciforms. If you are interested in a selection beyond what we even offer in the succulent range of plants, then visit Out of Africa Plants along with your trip to Glasshouse Works. Your can call Mike at 1-614-625-5790. He can be Emailed atAridEast@ecrknox.com.If you cannot arrange to go to Mike's greenhouse on your trip to Ohio, we can transfer your plants here if you tell us your needs and you can get them from Glasshouse Works.
 
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Glasshouse Works, Church Street, P.O. Box 97, Stewart, OH 45778-0097
Tel: 740-662-2142 Fax: 740-662-2120
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