Meyers Conservatory

[shakkai]

I received an email this morning from Meyers Conservatory. They are asking for donations to help them to continue to offer their flasking services.

They have information here:

Please Donate Funds to Meyers Conservatory

It seems that they are having difficulties - and let's face it, who isn't!? - giving the rising costs of everything and people cancelling flask reservations. They did increase the base costs of flasks not too long ago, and at that time they gave everyone an option to cancel their reservation if they couldn't accept the new base price.

While I have not yet been able to get any flasks from them - I've been too far down the list - I do still have two reservations that I am hopeful about. Whether I get plants from them or not, I think that what they do is important, as they seem to be quite keen on orchid species conservation. For example, one policy that they have is that they don't charge more for flasks of rare plants. They only base the price on what it costs them to make the flasks.

They also have quite a lot of information published on their website about pollination and raising seedlings from flask, which I have used.

http://lab.troymeyers.com/flasking/FMPro

Maybe someone else out there has more direct experience with them - please share it, if you do.

If you would like to help out at all, have a look at their established plants or their flasks:
Flasking Home Page

I am sure that any additional sales income would be greatly appreciated!