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Fall planting, Fall flowers and Fall hours

September 2, 2018 by Ted Alway

Pacific nine bark (Physocarpus capitatus) with fall color in the nursery With the lowering of the sun’s angle, and the yellow school buses on the roads, we have signs that fall will soon be here.  This is a great to time to plant natives, especially in the “golden” period from mid-September to late October.  The soil […]

Filed Under: Featured Natives, Landscaping, Life at the Nursery, Native flora Tagged With: birds, native plants, nursery, Planting, pollinators, rabbitbrush, Rocky Mountain juniper

May Flowers at the Nursery

May 11, 2018 by Ted Alway

May is a wonderfully busy time for a native plant nursery.  Plant orders are going out, customers are coming in, lots of transplanting is underway… and it is too easy to get wrapped up in the pressing needs to not see and appreciate the beauty that is developing all around. Blue flax (Linum lewisii) It’s […]

Filed Under: Life at the Nursery, Native flora Tagged With: bigleaf maple, blue flax, ceanothus, Garry oak, native plants, nursery, Oregon grape, Ponderosa pine, seedlings

The 2018 Nursery Season is Underway!

March 20, 2018 by Ted Alway

Derby Canyon Natives is once again open for business!  We are entering our 16th year of native plant propagation and sales; we’ve learned alot and continue to improve and grow. The snow has melted, the seeds are germinating and our plants are growing.  Other than some pockets of vole damage (the pesky buggers!)  the nursery stock […]

Filed Under: Life at the Nursery, Native flora Tagged With: Central Washington, native plants, nursery, propagation

Alpine Springbeauty – Wow!

July 30, 2017 by Ted Alway

I don’t get botanical “Wow!” moments often, but last week I had one of them. On Thursday I hiked to Van Epps Pass, past the Esmeralda Peaks at the head of the North Fork of the Teanaway River.  This part of the Wenatchee Mountains has many areas of serpentine-derived soils, often covered with the rusty […]

Filed Under: Featured Natives, Native flora Tagged With: alpine, alpine springbeauty, bitterroot, Central Washington, Chelan County, Claytonia megarhiza, Kittitas County, native plants, serpentine, Tweedy's lewisia, Wenatchee Mountains

Botanical Wonders in the Sawtooths

June 8, 2017 by Ted Alway

Alpine flora in the Sawtooths:  alpine forget-me-not (Eritrichium nanum) and spreading phlox (Phlox diffusa) North Central Washington has a rich and diverse flora (best in the Northwest, I think!) and this year, 2017, looks to be a great one for wildflowers.  If you are into native flora, as I am, there are so many great […]

Filed Under: Native flora Tagged With: alpines, Central Washington, mountain sapphire, native plants, Sawtooth Mountains, snow douglasia

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