It was wonderful to see our friends at Fall Creek Farm & Nursery get some positive press on the Garden Center Magazine blog:
http://www.gardencentermagazine.com/blogs/ode_to_the_blueberry.aspx
They are right on with their theme: Every Season. Every Garden.
At Pleasant Hill Nursery, we’ve always loved blueberry plants and the bountiful harvest of healthful fruit they produce. However, blueberries are a versatile plant for container gardening and the landscape too. They offer spring blooms that are really pretty in varying shades of whites, pinks and blues. Of course, the summer fruit is
Today is Thanksgiving Day. Dave and I have so much to be grateful for in life and in our business at Pleasant Hill Nursery. We are immensely proud of our nursery. It has been nearly thirty years in the building process, many of those years were tough. Some were incredibly stressful. For those of you in the nursery business, you know this is not an easy way to make a living - especially this year.
When I returned to the office today, I was thrilled to see Nancy's latest container design. She created two planters that are now on each side of our office entrance. In the center of the pot, is a Boulevard Cypress ( Chamaecyparis pisifera 'Cyano Viridis' ) that is pruned up a ways to expose the lower trunks. Around the base of the plant, level with the container edge are a Wooly Thyme and Irish Moss. A simple design but it definitely makes a statement.
I just received a wonderful phone call. A few weeks ago, some customers bought Leylandii Cypress (Cupressocyparis leylandii) trees from us to create a screen. They were trying to sell their house and wanted to block off the neighbors house to create a more private yard. Their house was on the market and they thought this might help improve their chances for selling.
This customer just called and they were so thrilled having just received a signed offer on their house. Many prospective buyers had toured their house previously but the first people to tour after the trees were planted were the ones that made an offer. Coincidence? Maybe.
Or perhaps the enriching of the landscape and the presence of these trees sweetened the deal and removed the
Posted by: Amy Daniel in pleasant hill nursery on
Oct 28, 2009
You never know what secret talents people you work with my have. Take Scott Cully for instance. He's the General Manager at Fall Creek Farm & Nursery. Just a stone's throw away from our nursery, Fall Creek is the world's leading blueberry nursery stock grower. They're an amazing operation, if you're not familiar with them. Well, apparently they hire some pretty amazing people too. I recently learned that Scott is a Guinness Book of World Record holder for carving the largest pumpkin (weighing 1689 pounds). However, it's not just about the size of the pumpkin, the designs he carves are incredible. (See photo in Register Guard article linked here.)
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