Derby Canyon Natives opens for 2013
The snow has melted away, the greenhouses are covered and seedlings are pushing up, so it’s time to get the growing season underway! …
Tag: seeds
Preparing for 2013
We packed the plants away this past week for the winter, covering and insulating many of them in windrows to protect them from…
Seed collecting time
I enjoy the cyclical nature of nursery work: sowing seeds, germination time, thinning, transplanting, watering… even weeding! All of these plants begin with…
Showy milkweed – common and extraordinary
Most residents of Eastern Washington are familiar with this plant, whether they know it or not. Often growing in rather bare areas or…
Penstemons, penstemons, pentstemons…
The first penstemons of the year are beginning to bloom in the nursery beds, with shrubby penstemon (Penstemon fruticosus) starting it off (shown…