It's a Jungle out there folks....

It's a Jungle out there folks....

Full Up (Round One!)

The Plantmad Mist House

Posts to this blog & our Facebook page through the Summer months are few & far between. That's because when we are not slaving away on the nursery we are our hiking & climbing in the Oregon Cascades! I took a few moments though to post this photo of our now full mist house. We are not done though, now we take rooted material out & carry on sticking more!

A Dr. Who Plant!

Our Paris polyphylla flowering at Plantmad today.

Hell of a big Magnolia!

Magnolia macrophylla

Last year at 10 years old our Magnolia macrophylla put on it's first flower this year at 11 it has about 10. It's growing at about 3' per year so by 2020 I expect it to be the tallest tree in the Plantmad Garden.

Time to stick cuttings!

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A shinny new poly cover on the prop house, let the Summer Cuttings Season begin!

Potting is Done!

Every year we set a goal of finishing all our new liner Potting by the end of May. We never make it but this year we came closer than we ever have before :^)

The final house of potted new liners.

Newer isn't always better!!

Wisteria floribunda 'Macrobotrys' has been around under one name or another for at least 400 years.

Glowingly written about by Kaempfer in the 1700's & again by Siebold in the 1830's. It takes longer to mature & begin flowering than many of the newer cultivars but those with a little patients will begreatly rewarded with the longest flower racemes of any Wisteria. Easily reaching 3' but 5' & 6' racemes are not unheard of!

 Wisteria floribunda 'Macrobotrys'

Flower Power!