Back from the Dead!

I thought that we had lost all these seedlings of Syneilesis palmata to Botrytis last June when they all melted away! Luckily though I never got around to throwing the flats away! These are seedlings of the variegated 'Kikko' but I don't know if we will see any interesting variegation show up on them.

Time to gather the scions!

The annual harvest of Acer saccharum 'Monumentale' scions from our friends tree. Looks like we will need a taller ladder or longer poll pruner next year.

A Spring Glow and a Blue Sky!

Cornus mas 'Spring Glow'

While much of the Eastern side of America has been suffering one of their worst winters in years we here in the Northwest have hardly had a Winter! The average monthly temperature for February 2015 not only beat previous February's but was also warmer than the March Average! 

Daphniphyllum macropodum

Our first attempt at grafting up some variegated Daphniphyllum macropodum! Our fingers are crossed!

Chopping up some roots!

Comptonia peregrina roots

All of a sudden we had a lot of interest in & we sold out of  Comptonia peregrina (Sweetfern) so we thought that we better set to & make some more!

X Gordlinia grandiflora

Some of our first crop of the relatively new & exciting x Gordlinia grandiflora, this bi Generic hybrid is the fine work of Tom Ranney of North Carolina State University. It's a hybrid of Franklinia alatamaha and Gordonia lasianthus. Looking good on these dark days of January! For more information on the origins of this plant you can check out this link.

x Gordlinia grandiflora

Some Winter Orders

Always nice to pull a few Winter orders for early Shipment, it's a sign that Spring is on the way :^)..