Welcome!

It’s my pleasure to offer this inaugural edition of our newsletter. As a valuable customer or associate of our company, you continue to help our business develop and mature. Thanks to your assistance, we continue to add to our product line, improve our product quality and services, and add outstanding associates to an already exceptional staff. As a result, we have much to tell you about, and hope this newsletter will allow us to better communicate with you, so that all of us can benefit. Subsequent issues will provide information about new products, services, and associates; exceptional landscape projects, industry happenings, and tips that can help your business. We hope you'll view this newsletter as a supplement to our Web page (www.miramarnurseries.com), which features similar information, along with current inventory information and ordering capabilities.

Our business goal continues to be that of a professional, dependable industry-support member striving to assist in your business success. We continue to value our association and look forward to talking with you in future editions. Tom Ewing

• Miramar Wholesale Nurseries custom grew Washingtonia robusta and Cocos plumosa installed in the recent Clairemont Square remodel. Star Jasmine and Bird of Paradise were two of the many shrubs installed in the renovation. Torrey Hills continues to install rare custom grown Torrey Pines throughout the project. Complemented by Plantanus racemosa, Quercus agrifolia, Cistus cobariensis, Pennisetum, and many others, this massive project is taking shape just east of the freeway 805 & 5 interchange.

• Currently in production are large Strelitzia nicholai and Phormium ‘Cookianum’ for the new Disneyland Drive, being developed as part of the new Disney park and renovation in Anaheim.

• Shipped to Las Vegas this spring were truckloads of Prunus vesuvius. The trees were custom grown for the Summerlin project.

• Many MWN plants can be found in the newly opened Riverwalk Golf Course in Mission Valley. Planted as part of the renovation were Raphiolepis, Photinia, Jacaranda Trees, and the popular new perennial Verbena ‘Tapien.’ Black Horse Farms in La Jolla selected trees from Miramar Wholesale Nurseries new Vista Hill Collection...Harpulia arborea and Bauhinia purpurea.

• Our plant materials continue to be a part of the immaculate landscape presentations at such properties as the Loews Coronado Resort, the Dana Point Resort, Marriott and Courtyard Hotels, Aviara and Four Seasons Aviara Resort in Carlsbad, La Jolla Colony HOA, and Casa de Manana in La Jolla.

April 14, 16, 21 and 23
ESL course on Horticulture Problem Solving at Miramar Wholesale Nurseries, 4:00-5:50 pm
May 12
Greater San Diego Chamber of Commerce, Business After Five, Four Points Sheraton Hotel, Information: 619/544-1341

May 28
Greater San Diego Chamber of Commerce, Tribute to Small Business, San Diego Convention Center Information: 619/544-1370
May 30
San Diego County Farm Bureau Annual Meeting, Bell Gardens, Valley Center, Information: 760/745-3023
June 9
San Diego County Apartment Association Tradeshow, San Diego Convention Center, Information: 619/297-1000 (Look for MWN at booth #223)
June 11
Greater San Diego Chamber of Commerce, Business to Business Expo, San Diego Convention Center
June 12
C.A.I Golf Classic, Rancho Bernardo Inn Contact: C.A.I. (800) 266-3610
July 16-18
California Landscape Contractor’s Association, Summer Tri-Board, Holiday Inn on the Bay, San Diego, Information: 916/448-CLCA