Columbia lewisia – cheerful and helpful!
Central Washington has some gorgeous species from the Portulacaceae, among them the Western spring beauties (Claytonia lanceolata) that begin the season, the striking…
Tag: seedlings
Seedling identification – a pop quiz!
We’ve got many thousands of seedlings emerging in the nursery, most just now getting their first true leaves. See if you can figure…
At least it’s warm in the greenhouses!
What a spring this hasn’t been. March 27 and it’s snowing (again)! Still, plant life continues, as hundreds of thousands of new seedlings…
The first seedlings pop up
It never ceases to thrill me; the snow begins to retreat from the seeded containers and there they are, the first seedlings of…
“Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant” – Robert Louis Stevenson
The winter is a slow time in the nursery, yet also a very important time for the year ahead. We sow most of…