A Grower Perspective

 We had a customer call the other day looking for a columnar tree to fill a specific location between buildings. It got us thinking about all of the trees that we have in the nursery that are super narrow but grow tall without large, spreading heads. These trees are great to line driveways or provide a strong vertical element in an otherwise low, shruby landscape.


Here are our suggestions for columnar trees:

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The sunny days of pre-spring are upon us and our thoughts not only wander but race to the garden in a flurry to get out and do something.  At least my thoughts do and I remind myself to go slow as I might be a little stiff from the winter hibernation. Do you want to start something new this year?  Last year maybe you added blueberries and an apple tree or two and a raised bed for salad greens and you are ready to move on to something else.  What about taking out some lawn and making a meadow?  A meadow “like a lawn it is a calming place for the eye to rest, yet with the richness and complexity of a border.  Unlike lawns, meadows are better for the environment, a safe habitat for beneficial insects and pollinators, a place where native ecology can thrive…meadows require less maintenance and consume significantly less resources than a lawn or border.”  (from the preface to The American Meadow Garden by John Greenlee).  This concept was brought to our attention by local landscape architect John Pellitier.  John Greenlee came to Eugene recently to talk about planting meadows and this fired John P. up and he called us to talk about it and see what plants we had available.  Yesterday he stopped by to pick up some Juncus effuses ‘Gold Strike’ and he noticed the beautiful meadow book on our counter.  (Yes we listen to our customers and do our best to respond).  We have quite a few grasses and perennials that do well in meadow gardens and we have natural meadows full of camas and native grasses surrounding the nursery.  If this excites you and you want to add some meadow to your landscape come out and we’ll help you get started or call John Pellitier and he’ll get you going.

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 We have had some substantial rain fall here in the valley and we have started digging our ball & burlap material.  Today the crew is working on leylandii cypress, otto luyken laurel, and schipka laurel.  When we get a solid frost and the deciduous trees drop their leaves we will be able to start digging those as well.  Let us know if there is something specific you would like

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 Very exciting news: Our new crop of #1 blueberries are available! Blueberries are one of our most popular sellers- and for good reason. Blueberries are delicious and blueberry plants are beautiful additions to your landscape. ‘Legacy’ blueberry, for example, is evergreen in our area, but many varieties have wonderful fall foliage, like ‘Patriot’, that has red, orange and yellow fall color. Blueberry plants are a great addition even in small gardens where space is limited; ‘Top Hat’ is a small plant that grows only one to two feet high. ‘Chandler’ blueberry is one of the most popular varieties, and its berries are the largest blueberries in the world.

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We're getting lots of calls and drop-in visitors with questions about damaged/sickly plants in their landscape. Just a few moments ago, we had a gal drop by this morning with branches from a dead plant. Let us put your minds at ease: You did not kill your plant. It is not your fault. Remember, we had a very tough winter with three days of subfreezing temps. It was very hard on all but the hardiest of plants.

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