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 […]
It’s a seedling fiesta!
With the advent of longer days and warmer weather (at least on some days!) we now have seedlings emerging in great quantities at the nursery. We covered our hoop houses with poly film a month ago and over the next four weeks the little plants have popped up. Some species, especially from the shrub steppe, […]
Opening soon (I hope!)
The pictures above and below were taken March 8th. At this time the previous four years we had the hoop houses covered with poly and little seedlings were emerging. Not this year! While much of the nation has experienced record high temperatures over the past month, and spring is arriving earlier then ever, our corner of […]
2016 – Up and Growing Again!
Derby Canyon Natives is now open for business. Through March we open by appointment Monday through Friday. Beginning Friday, April 1 (no joke!), we resume our regular retail hours of Fridays 9-5 and Saturdays 8-12 noon. A lovely little yellow bell enduring a mid-March snowfall It’s great to be back at it, regardless of a […]
What It Takes to Grow Healthy Native Plants – “Dirt and Pots!”
The majority of plants native to the lands east of the Cascade Mountains are adapted to sites and soils that can get quite dry for much of the year. Other than the species found in the saturated soils near or in streams, rivers and ponds, most of our natives will struggle or die in soils […]
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- Next Page »