You can find orange honeysuckle (Lonicera ciliosa) climbing trees and clambering over the ground in the woods on both sides of the Cascades; in our area east of the mountains I see it mostly above 2000′ in mixed Ponderosa pine-Douglas fir forest. The bright orange-red flowers really stand out in their late May to June […]
Archives for August 2012
Derby Canyon Natives is 10 years old!
2012 marks the 10th year for my nursery business. What began as a part time addition to my work with Washington State University and our pear and apple orchard quickly become much larger. I can, in part, credit soccer for that. I had begun collecting seeds in the spring of 2002 and lined up my […]