Wisteria Liners ready for the off!

Grafted Wisteria Liners

We depotted our first order of our grafted wisteria liners today for Winter Shipping. Depotting greatly reduces our customers shipping costs.

New Plants!

We would like to thank Lucile Whitman of Whitman Farms for sharing some of her precious Daphniphyllum macropodum seed with us. We had been looking for some for a couple of years but it's hard to find!

Four Trifoliates!

Comparing the bark on 4 Trifoliate Maples:

a. A. triflorum | b. A. mandshuricum | c. A. griseum | d. A. griseum x nikoense ‘Molly Fordham’

Snow Poles are in for the Winter!

We never used to put snow poles in our greenhouses, though they are only made out of half inch black pipe the design had been used by several nurseries in the area for over 30 years without a single house being lost. In December 2008 though we had the snowfall from hell with between 20" & 30" of snow falling over a couple of days. Many nurseries in our area lost all their greenhouses some of them large multi span structures that were far more elegant & costly when compared to our simple tunnels. Thanks to Chiyoko's hard work in removing snow we didn't loose of ours but they were damaged. They are now flatter on top than they used to be & so weaker than before. The snow poles are now our bit of added insurance during the winter months!

Witch Hazels Ready to go!

A contract propagation order for about 25 cultivars of Hamamelis & a few other odds & ends ready for the off!

Kalopanax pictus

Kalopanax pictus

(syn. Kalopanax septemlobus)

We are not brave enough to grow this plant for production, Chiyoko draws the line at Mahonia potting! We do have this one growing in the garden though, I think it always looks it's most impressive at this time of year.

A lone flower!

Disanthus cercidifolius

There are many reasons to plant a Disanthus cercidifolius in your garden not least among them being their fantastic Autumn Color. That being said their small flowers are probably not one of the reasons, though when they do flower they give away their identity as members of the Hamamelidaceae. This year we have liners of both the species & the variegated cultivar from Japan 'Ena Nishiki' available.