A Grower Perspective

Several varieties of sweetly scented geraniums are available in our front greenhouse.  Come by and choose some for a porch or deck pot.  Bring them in during the winter and you’ll have them ready for next year when the time comes.  Along with their sculptured leaves and delicate flowers they are useful in cooking and in sachets or luxurious baths.

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Erica carnea ‘Ruby Glow’ and honey bees, early spring at the nursery February 17, 2011, all is good in the world.

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Our writings are usually about plants we grow or musings about the weather or other situations concerning plants, nurseries or other areas closely related.  This one is a bit of a stretch out of that realm.  We do have one Rainier Cherry tree in a number fifteen pot for sale, price of fifty dollars.  That’s the relation and now here is the connection.  Today is my husband Joey’s Birthday, so the dedication of this piece to him and a bit about him.  Years ago he was driving north from Oregon to Eastern Washington and then on to Puget Sound.

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It really all comes down to food, at least for me. And what does this have to do with the nursery industry you ask? All of us that work here are cooks and have our specialties (and idiosyncrasies) and share food and recipes.  I just had a delicious handful of pumpkin seeds, in the shell from a coworker.  Yum.  So where was I?  Oh yes food.  Our neighbors at the nursery are farmers and we get strawberries, green beans and corn from them.  We grow a vegetable garden in the back for all to share in the bounty. 

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Last evening after dinner and as dusk was setting in, earlier than usual I might add, I went for a walk along our country road. I needed a quiet moment to clear my mind. Wandering along, I noticed the Queen Ann's Lace growing, thriving, and so extremely beautiful. This delicate plant exists and is glorious in what would seem to be the most adverse conditions, gravel against asphalt, with cars and trucks passing regularly and no water or fertilizer except what drops out of the tall boy beer and coke cans. Yet thrive it does and bloom with flowers that look like the finest lace from the north of France.

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