We were asked to see if we could propagate a few, it was too late in the year for softwood cuttings but we had plenty of Halesia liners kicking around and so grafted a few scions onto Halesia carolina which to our surprise & delight lived!
Saturday, September 19, 2015
Found on a Portland Street!
Over the past few years Portland Oregon, with the help of many volunteers has been conducting a thorough inventory of it's street tree inventory. In 2014 a tree was found growing happily on the verge that at first stumped the folks conducting the inventory. After some research and photos being e mailed around it was identified as Melliodendron xylocarpum a curious member of the Styracaceae Family.
We were asked to see if we could propagate a few, it was too late in the year for softwood cuttings but we had plenty of Halesia liners kicking around and so grafted a few scions onto Halesia carolina which to our surprise & delight lived!
We were asked to see if we could propagate a few, it was too late in the year for softwood cuttings but we had plenty of Halesia liners kicking around and so grafted a few scions onto Halesia carolina which to our surprise & delight lived!
Sunday, August 30, 2015
A Snowbell or a Silverbell.
We picked up this interesting Styrax from Sue & Kelly at Far Reaches Farm last year. Collected by them in Guizhou China 2010. To me the foliage more closely resembles a Halesia but apparently the flowers keyed out to Styrax japonicus.
Schima argentea
Yesterday's surprise was finding a few flowers on our still quite small Schima argentea.
Saturday, August 15, 2015
A Clethra from Vietnam.
We chopped this up for cuttings today, Clethra aff, petelotii FMWJ1340. A plant we got from Kelly & Sue at Far Reaches Farm a couple of years ago.
Monday, August 10, 2015
Full Up (Round One!)
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!
Saturday, June 13, 2015
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