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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

Collecting conifer cones… and thinking of wildfire

October 1, 2015 by Ted Alway

September is the month I collect cones from both Ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) and Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii).  I won’t sow the seeds for a few months yet but I need to get the cones before the seeds are dispersed.  Doug fir cones I can usually harvest from low hanging branches while still closed.  The pine […]

Filed Under: Native flora, Restoration Tagged With: Central Washington, conifers, Douglas fir, Ponderosa pine, seed collecting, seeds, wildfire

Plant Quality and Containers

May 14, 2015 by Ted Alway

Our objective at Derby Canyon Natives is to grow native plants that meet our customers’ needs in both quantity and quality.  Most of the plants we grow are planted in restoration projects, often in challenging environments east of the Cascades with little or no irrigation.  A quality plant should survive, if not thrive, in these situations. […]

Filed Under: Life at the Nursery, Native flora, Planting and Care, Restoration Tagged With: ceanothus, containers, native plants, nursery, paxistima, Ponderosa pine, restoration

What are these magic beans?

July 8, 2013 by Ted Alway

What native plant from Chelan County yields such large and distinctive seeds?  Why, it’s our only native peony!  Brown’s peony (Paeonia brownii) is one of only two peony species native to North America and the only one in Washington; all others are found in Eurasia.  It was one of the most prized specimens found by the […]

Filed Under: Featured Natives, Life at the Nursery Tagged With: balsamroot, bitterbrush, Brown's peony, Chelan County, lupine, native plants, nursery, Ponderosa pine, propagation, seedlings, seeds

From this little seed a mighty tree will grow

April 15, 2013 by Ted Alway

One of my favorite tasks in propagating native plants is being able to go into the hills and along the rivers to collect seeds, often by simply walking out my door.  And, being a relatively small nursery, I not only focus on species that grow in North Central Washington but also emphasize that the plants I grow […]

Filed Under: Featured Natives, Native flora Tagged With: Central Washington, Chelan County, conifers, Douglas fir, Ponderosa pine, propagation, seedlings, seeds

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