This low growing ground covering Willow is native to the high mountain slopes of Hokkaido Japan. It was looking particularly nice in the the nursery this evening.
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
Not your everyday Silverbell!
A couple of years ago the Portland "Friends of Trees" group were helping conduct an inventory of trees in Portland neighborhoods. A tree was found that no one could at first identify, it turned out to be a Melliodendron xylocarpum! Some propagation material was sent our way but it was already late summer and not really suitable cutting wood. We decided to graft the wood onto the closet thing we had, Halesia tetraptera! We were surprised to get quite a good take and this year we have been rewarded with the first flower.
Sunday, March 27, 2016
Monster Grafts!
A couple of weeks ago we grafted some variegated Aralia for the first time on our callus bed system. Initial results look promising and we potted them up yesterday!
Saturday, March 26, 2016
Back in Service
After an 8 year hiatus Greenhouse #7 has been recovered and returned to service....
More potting Chiyoko :)
Sunday, March 20, 2016
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Grafting some old Cherry Trees.
On a previous visit last December we found that 3 of the old trees were still at least partially alive! We contacted the land owner (Friends of the Gorge) & asked if they would be interested in us trying to propagate these old trees for them and received a positive answer. So we headed up there to collect some scion wood, unfortunately we were about 3 weeks too late and the buds of the trees had started to push. While this lowers our chances of success we still considered it worth a try. Fingers crossed!
Saturday, March 5, 2016
Time for a new Broom!
One of today's projects was custom grafting scions of this newly found Douglas Fir Broom. Always something new & interesting with plants!
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