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Nandina domestica 'Moyer's Red'

Posted by: Ashley in pleasant hill nursery, landscape design and inspiration, benefits of plants, autumn on Nov 8, 2011

Chinese New Year is January 23rd, 2012. Plant this Nandina in your landscape now and you will have beautiful berries to decorate your house as they do in China, with the berries of nandina. The bright red berries appear in the winter, just when the landscape benefits from the interest they provide and the birds need the sustenance

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Red Maple 'Autumn Raidance' (Acer rubrum)

Posted by: Ashley in trees, pleasant hill nursery, landscape design and inspiration, autumn on Sep 27, 2011

In honor of the arrival of fall, we have a shade tree celebrated for its vivid color this time of year. As the love child of ‘October Glory’ and ‘Red Sunset’, ‘Autumn Radiance’ boasts the best qualities of its parents with vivid, red foliage two weeks before other red maples.

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Happy First Day of Fall!

Posted by: Ashley in trees, pleasant hill nursery, landscape design and inspiration, autumn on Sep 23, 2011

My favorite tree for gorgeous fall color: the parrotia. Today, on the first day of autumn, it is just beginning to show the splendor of what is to come. At its best, it will show jewel toned leaves of amethyst, garnet, topaz and ruby. Do you have a favorite fall tree?

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Fall Blooming Lavender?

Posted by: Ashley in pleasant hill nursery, landscape design and inspiration, flowers, autumn on Sep 23, 2010

Do you remember back in the middle of July when we taught you how to prune lavender, step-by-step? After that pruning, the lavender looked like this:

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