A Grower Perspective

 We started doing something new at our weekly company meetings at Pleasant Hill Nursery.  At each meeting, someone has to bring in a plant from the nursery and educate everyone about that plant.  The goal is to help those with less knowledge to become more educated about plants.  Truth is, we all learn something. 

It was my turn this week and I chose Rosa rugosa.  It was one of my mom's many favored plants.  Dave remembers her collecting seed and starting her own Rosa rugosas.  (I'm grateful he has these memories from her days being around her in the nursery.) I researched this plant and had great fun sharing my new findings with the group.  Here's what I learned about

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 It's good to see that everyone is working hard at the nursery!

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The weather has been strange this year, to say the least.  Today's weather was no exception.  It's almost May.  We've just had some gorgeous warm spring weather.  And yet today, hail.  A crazy few moments of hail.  It was so loud on our metal roof that sitting in my office upstairs, I felt briefly that I was sitting within a snare drum.  Thankfully it didn't last long and there was no damage.  But it leaves you wondering, when it comes to weather, what in the world is next?

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I own a nursery so people are always surprised that I am a near novice when it comes to plants.  (Don’t worry, we have plant experts here! My role is marketing and administration.) Through the years I’ve noticed there is much variety in the color and texture of plants but I guess I never really paid attention to the vastness of differences. While plant enthusiasts have always known this, I just didn’t tune into the small color and textural details one notices when you study these plants up close.

However, this has become so much more apparent to me as we’ve begun to build our photo library. Plant photography has become a top priority for us. It is a massive job to build up our photo archive when you consider the sheer number of varieties we grow

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There are so many wonderful tree varieties - most with interesting attributes that make them worthy of planting. I certainly have my favorite trees but the Mount Fuji Cherry (Prunus serrulata ‘Mt. Fuji’) tops my list.

A very dear friend and former employer of mine, Rhoda Lomsky, had a mature Mt. Fuji cherry tree in her landscape and it was there that I first noticed what a gorgeous tree it was. Her tree, with its thick and somewhat gnarled truck and tree structure, seemed majestic and somehow wise. It was in full magnificent bloom, covered in delicate white flowers that looked so soft and pure next to the aged trunk. With the ground covered in white petals that had begun to fall, it gave the appearance of snow surrounding the tree on a warm spring day.

Not long after my discovery of this tree, I planted one in our own landscape. It was a little whip of a tree, not much to see in the beginning. My thoughts turned to other things in a busy life over the span

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