A Grower Perspective

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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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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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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 This morning Ashley and I joined Jane for a walking tour of the U of O campus.  Jane is the campus landscape designer for the U of O.  She has been coming out to the nursery for years to buy plants and we thought it was time for a field trip to her ‘garden’.  The three of us appeared to be the only ones walking on campus fully decked out in rain gear head to foot.  The weather would have no impact on our tour.  We started with the new buildings, the coliseum, the alumni center and the very impressive student/athlete study center.  Modern buildings are sometimes a challenge for me, but this one pulls everything together and is so thoughtfully done and you feel very much in nature; with water and a well appointed planting surrounding the building, lots of wood and stone and natural light inside the building and even a cozy fire surrounded by bright yellow couches just inside the door.  It was cool, just edgy enough to be avant-garde, and comfortable enough to make you want to sit down and have a warm beverage.  I felt like I was somewhere besides Eugene, it feels big town, new, nice and exciting.

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 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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