July and August in the nursery are slower times – very little plant propagation and a lot of watering – so it’s a good time to head for the hills and seek out flowers in the higher parts of the mountains. This year there is still quite a bit of snow at the upper elevations, […]
Archives for July 2012
Seed collecting time
I enjoy the cyclical nature of nursery work: sowing seeds, germination time, thinning, transplanting, watering… even weeding! All of these plants begin with seeds or, for some species, cuttings. I mostly grow species native to Central Washington so I need to venture out to the nearby fields, hills, streamsides and mountains to find what I’m after. […]