A Grower Perspective

 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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Autumn is in full glory and I’m asking you to push the season a bit and think about the holiday time and of winter and how to make it a bit lighter.

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A customer just came in and purchased blueberry plants for a landscape project, integrating a typically food plant into his ornamental garden. This is often called edible landscaping. Most food plants have some aesthetic quality and so can be added to your garden. Here is our suggestion for today; Draper Blueberry. Draper tastes great, sweet and aromatic, is large and easy to pick, is thick skinned and does not split, ripens mid-season (July) and as we all know is full of antioxidants (which are good for you). It grows four to eight feet high and has a golden autumn leaf color. Grow it in full sun to partial shade. Blueberries have year round beauty in the garden and delicious food in the summer.

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A big name for a delicate, whimsical and prized evergreen, ‘Frohburg’ is considered in many circles the best weeping Norway spruce (even though it is from Switzerland). Evergreens function as the structure and strength of a garden, this pendulous spruce adds form to the garden especially in the winter. Often used as a single planting, ‘Frohburg’ spruce has a slim upright habit growing 5’ x 3’, a very good choice for a limited space, functioning as a tall accent piece and a graceful groundcover with its full and spreading skirt. We sell only the staked version of this plant, if left unstaked it is a groundcover.

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It’s October and we still have blooming pots of lavender in our nursery. One of the outstanding varieties is Croxton’s Wild, a lavender grown from wild lavender seeds collected in Europe by Pauline Croxton, hence the name. Dusty pale buds open up into light blue flowers sitting atop six to eight inch stems. You may expect a second bloom about this time of year if you harvested the June bloom. Croxton’s Wild is considered to be an excellent culinary lavender for ice cream, crème brulee, or to decorate fancy drinks. We have our Croxton’s planted next to a red Japanese maple, a bright red dahlia and a clump of miscanthus. This lavender eventually grows to about three feet in diameter. Remember we have Joey Blum’s Guide to Growing Lavender for sale and it contains all the secrets of the trade.

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