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Seeds Make It Happen
One of my first connections I made with my business after graduating from college was supplying seeds to other nurseries. I was surprised at how much time that took. At the time, my little nursery was using seeds I collected … Continue reading
Mackinaw Peach
There is something very satisfying growing a tree from seed. Every now and then I will save the pits of plums and peaches from the store and squeak out a few plants. Since all of the fruit comes from California … Continue reading
It’s Just a Seedling
Here nestled into the leaf litter of a farm road I drive over, a small apple tree has sprouted and taken root. This apple tree might be considered an accidental visitor or a plant out of place for some but … Continue reading
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The Real Estate With the Best View of the Forest
Look up. The canopy is filled with fruits and nuts. Look down. Do you see anything? This was my beginning of finding and developing shade loving fruit crops. There are many plants that will tolerate shade but few that will … Continue reading
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Flexibility and Stability:Wild Apple
Malus pumila var. niedwetzkyana I received this seed from an overseas arboretum collection many years ago. It is a white flowering form of a normally red flower and red flesh crabapple. I only had one tree of it at the … Continue reading
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The Species Pear: Balancing Act
If you dare to look into the taxonomy of pears, you will find some treasures hidden in the mountains in France far outside cultivation. These are not “escaped” pears but subspecies that someone in taxonomy has gone to the trouble … Continue reading
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The Oregon Grape Holly
This particular species of broadleaf evergreen is part of a broad range of species as well as hybrids used as ornamental landscape plants. One of my ‘seedy’ friends sent me several types of seeds harvested from older arboretum collections. I … Continue reading
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Perennial Solutions to Annual Problems
One of the constant challenges when faced with any horticultural endeavor is finding ways to eliminate or greatly reduce plants that are competing with your crop plant. Here are a few examples of ways to enhance what nature has already … Continue reading
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Wood is Good:The dream of the American Chestnut
It was only by accident that I found an American chestnut tree one summer while doing yard work for a little extra money in my senior year in college. The dried burrs I found beneath it made a great ornament … Continue reading
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