New Quercus pontica grafts.

Quercus pontica

This past winter we were able to buy ten 3' tall well branched Quercus pontica trees. So the first thing we did when they arrived was chop all the branches off them :^).. This gave us lots of scions & a lovely crop of liners that should be available by this fall.

Looking up at May Apples!

Our garden patch of Podophyllum peltatum gets slowly but surely a little bit bigger with each passing year but you have to lay dawn on your back & look up to enjoy the flowers :^)..

Quercus macrocarpa 'Ghost'

Quercus macrocarpa 'Ghost'

Presenting Quercus macrocarpa 'Ghost', not your typical new plant introduction, it's of know commercial value & there is only one :^).. It's the name I've put on this chance seedling that I have had in our shade house for the last 10 years or so. It throws a few leaves that are almost entirely green while the rest look like this! Just enough chlorophyll to keep it going! I'm sure it wouldn't last 5 minutes if we planted it outside in the real world!

Sinocalycalycanthus raulstonii 'Hartlage Wine'

Sinocalycalycanthus raulstonii 'Hartlage Wine'

One of our favorite plants looking fine in the garden this week!

Catchin' some evening rays!

Acer macrophyllum 'Mocha Rose' 

This 'Mocha Rose' lives under 3 of it's giant Big Leaf Maple cousins. The pink colour of the new leaves has faded already but I thought the plant looked cool as it caught a few rays of evening sunlight while everything else around it was in shade. 

A new Ginkgo....

Ginkgo biloba 'Silver Cloud'

We saw this plant for the first time last year & were lucky enough to be able to procure one! The Silver coloration on the leaves is quite striking & lasts all year. There doesn't seem to be any signs of reversion as there so often is on variegated Ginkgos. We haven't dared put this plant out in the sun yet but we have started making more of them :^)..

A Black Dragon!

Wisteria floribunda 'Black Dragon'

A single flower raceme of the lovely double flowered Wisteria floribunda 'Black Dragon'. There is a bit of name confusion over this plant's name as to weather or not the plant is synonymous with Wisteria floribunda 'Violacea Plena' There are some other photos of the plant here.