Waking Giants

We are growing some small seed lots wild collected Pine seeds this year under contract. These Pinus sabiniana seeds were huge!

Caught in a spider's Web....

Fatsia japonica 'Spider's Web' 

In the garden growing under an Acer macrophyllum in 100% shade.

A Firebush Forest!

We sowed half our collected Embothrium coccineum seed at the usual time earlier this year but after 6 weeks nothing had come up so we sowed the other half! Both lots then germinated about 10 days later! Now we have a forest of the darn things :^).

(Sino) Calycanthus chinensis

Calycanthus chinensis 

We grew this plant under it's old name of Sinoclycanthus chinensis for many years but finally gave up due to lack of sales which is a shame as it's a truly wonderful plant. I think we are going to have to give it another go this summer!  Apart for a couple of hours of dappled morning Sun these plants are growing in complete shade under Acer macrocarpa.

Two Stewartia

Stewartia rostrata

One of our favorite Stewartia is Stewartia rostrata. Large flowers with ruffled edges & each flower has one petal with a blush of pink. We live in hope that one day we will find a seedling with all pink flowers! Another less commonly seen species is Stewartia sinensis with smaller but delicate white flowers.

Stewartia sinensis

Pileostegia viburnoides

Pileostegia viburnoides

We picked up this zone 8 evergreen vine in the Hydrangeaceae family many years ago from Heronswood Nursery. It's a lovely evergreen vine that never gets too big for it boots. This is our original one living in the corner of one of our greenhouses were it battles a Giant Gunnera for space &; water :^)...

The Fun House

We have greenhouses where we make money & greenhouses where we lose Money. The ones where we loose money are a lot more fun to hang out in :^)..