A Grower Perspective

When entangled in the throes of winter the last thing most people are thinking of is their landscape.   The dog days of summer are just around the corner and the temperatures will be hitting up pretty fast. Now is the best time to start planting shade trees that, over time, will shield your home from the direct heat of the sun and add curb appeal to your home.  Deciduous trees allow for light and warmth to hit your home in the winter months and the foliage will shade and help cool your home in the summer. 

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 Looking for the perfect holiday gift? Pleasant Hill Nursery is pleased to offer gift certificates just in time for the holidays. Does someone on your gift list love plants? Is someone working on their landscape? The plants they select with their gift certificate will provide them with years of enjoyment. It is truly the gift that keeps giving. Our gift certificates make the perfect gift for family, friends, neighbors, customers, employees and anyone who has a yard or patio.

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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

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 I believe High Schools would benefit from having giant swing sets, so would corporate offices, I'm sure. Everyone needs recess to recreate, regenerate and just relax. Today I had recess. Three of us from the nursery went to Maryann's nursery, Clearwater Nursery just on the other side of Mount Pisgah from us. Lorenzo and Pedro went to deliver plants. I went to ogle plants. I could have stayed there all afternoon, filled up our truck with Maryann's plants and been very happy. But my recess was 20 minutes long and just a taste of inspiration. Clearwater Nursery is full of all shapes and sizes and colors of evergreens and other plants. They propagate unusual and collectible plants and are doing some for us so I visited the babies and saw the parent plants the cuttings came from. In planning a new display garden for our nursery, I played pick with many of her larger plants to add as focal points. So I had a sunny recess which will allow my creative juices to flow all afternoon.

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Here is a photo of Ted and his beautiful pumpkins. Ted heads up the Youth Farm in Springfield, a part of Food for Lane County. On a precious piece of open land in the middle of apartments and houses, not far from the new hospital or Gateway Mall is a farm, an oasis for birds, kids learning to garden and work, volunteers who want to get their hands on some great soil and Ted who runs the whole show. How are we connected to Ted and the Youth Farm? Ted has a fundraising (seed money) plant sale in the spring which we donate some of our healthy, beautiful plants to and Ted is on my husband's softball team, that is how we know Ted.  Tuesday I went to the farm to pick up our fall food order.  The farm is offering potatoes, onions, tomatoes, squash and more for folks that want to stock up for the winter, lovely produce and a very reasonable cost. I got boxes for Josh, Ashley and me.  Ted sent along the most beautiful bright orange Cinderella pumpkin, lovely to look at, tasty to eat, for Amy.  That is the best connection ever, sharing our best with each other. For more information on the Youth Farm and their produce check out the Food for Lane County web site www.foodforlanecounty.org or call 343-2822.

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