It's Home and Garden Show Time in Eugene!

Come to the Lane County Fairgrounds from Thursday, March 11, through Sunday, March 14, and visit hundreds of booths chock full of everything from plants and gardening supplies to great ideas for home design and living green. Plus take in many useful seminars and learn from experts about designing and improving your home and garden. This great show is absolutely free, including parking!

Our own Jim Gilbert will hold two seminars on growing delicious and nutritious fruit at 1 PM on both Saturday and Sunday.

Come to our booth, indulge your gardening fantasies, and pick up some plants! We'll have a large collection of our most popular varieties, including space-saving and easy to grow Columnar Apples, Olives, Tea, Kiwis, Figs, Citrus, Blueberries, and many more tasty varieties.

Show hours are 5-9 PM Thursday and Friday, 10AM-9PM Saturday, and 10AM-5PM on Sunday. For more details, check out the show at www.eugenehomeshow.com or www.onegreenworld.com.

PDX PlantMobile a Big Hit!

Last week for the first time we brought our plants and orders to Concentrates in Portland. We'll be there again this coming Saturday, March 13, from 10AM to 3PM. Save time, money and energy! Place your order by phone, fax or on our website and pick-up your plants at this close-in location.

Plus we'll have for sale a great selection of our popular varieties including Columnar Apples, Kiwis, Figs, Pineapple Guava, Strawberries, Raspberries and more.

Concentrates is located at 2613 SE 8th, between Division and Powell and while you are getting your plants, be sure to check out the great soil amendments and animal feed they offer. We plan to continue bringing plants to Portland every Saturday through May 29. For more information on delivery and charges, click here.

Attractive Early Bloomers

What's nicer than a yard or deck full of flowers in February and early March? Our early bloomers greet you every day with their showy display, plus many are deliciously fragrant and others follow their striking blooms with tasty fruit.

One of the first plants to bloom is Japanese Flowering Plum. Our variety, Kanko Bai, produces profuse deep pink and wonderfully fragrant flowers in the first week of February.

Following this unique, compact tree in bloom is Cornelian Cherry, a medium size shrub sprinkled with profuse, dainty, yellow flowers. Plant varieties such as Elegant, Pioneer, and Red Star and you'll harvest abundant, delicious fruit in August.

Flowering At about the same time as Cornelian Cherry, we are blessed with the striking blooms of Flowering Quince. From the multicolored blooms of Toyo-Nishiki, the bright white blossoms of Contorted, the scarlet-red flowers of Victory™ to the bright reddish-orange blooms of Tanechka™, this wonderful floral display is followed by unique and tasty fruit.

By early March, we begin to see the flowers of Akebia.  This rare, semi-evergreen, Japanese vine is covered with profuse flowers that will fill your yard with lovely, vanilla-like fragrance. Many colorful varieties are available including Shiro Bana with pure white flowers and Deep Purple™ with intensely dark purple blooms.

For another beautiful and fragrant treat, try growing Winter Honeysuckle. While it doesn't produce edible fruit, this spectacular, compact shrub will light up your landscape and nurture your senses with its richly fragrant flowers in mid to late February. Winter Jasmine is another attractive shrub featuring bright yellow flowers in January!

And we shouldn't forget our own native Flowering Currant. Covered with profuse, striking flower spikes in early March, varieties such as Apple Blossom, King Edward VII, Mary's Peak and White Icicle treat you with a range of colors from pink to crimson red and bright white.

If you live in colder regions or are simply enjoy indoor flowers, you will enjoy the enchanting fragrance of lemon, lime, or orange blossoms on your potted citrus plant in late winter and early spring. Choose from Washington Navel Orange, Meyer Lemon, Bearss Lime and many others and at the same time you are enjoying these wonderful flowers, you'll be harvesting your own delicious fruit.

Many Early Bloomers on Sale!

Get a great deal on these fine plants and brighten your yard, deck, or patio. All below reg. $16.95 NOW ONLY $12.95 ea.
Mary's Peak (#4845) and Apple Blossom (#4800) Flowering Currant,
Victory (#5445), Contorted (#5420), Tanechka (#5440), and Toyo-Nishiki (#5460)
Flowering Quince,
Winter Jasmine (#9442) and Winter Honeysuckle (#9360)
These sale prices good through March 21, 2010, while supplies last.

Hear Jim on KBOO Radio!

Tune in to 90.7 FM on Wednesday, March 10th. From 11AM to noon. Jim and host Glen Andresen will talk about the best fruit and vegetable varieties for our region and take calls from listeners. Jim is a regular guest on Glen Andreason's program, The Dirt Bag. Catch him on the second Wednesday of every month at 11AM. KBOO is also available on the internet at www.KBOO.fm/listen or on Itunes.