Pawpaw pollination is a subject we receive many questions about each year. The Pawpaws unique flowers don’t resemble anything like the fragrant and dainty rose family flowers that most fruit trees in the temperate world produce. Pawpaw flowers are a different beast entirely. They are a deep purplish maroon color...
The Schisandra (Shisandra chinensis) vine aka the Magnolia Vine and Five Flavor Fruit Vine, is an elegant deciduous vine native to Northern China. It displays beautiful oval shaped leaves and small white, yellow or red blossoms in late spring followed by a unique and nutrient rich red berry in late summer. The berries are certainly one...
After your new cuttings begin to push new growth and have started producing roots they need to be potted up in a media that has nutrients to support their tender new growth. There are some steps that can be followed to ensure your young cuttings don’t collapse during the very...
How wonderful would it be to have a fruit tree that bares not just one single favorite fruit, but many? It can be done through the magic of grafting! Using an Odysso RedLove apple tree and several different Red Flesh Apple cuttings, Sam, our Horticulturist, demonstrates below how easy it is to create a multi-graft tree...
Strawberries are a summertime favorite and spring is the perfect time to add them to your gardens to be rewarded with these tasty fruits during the summer months ahead. We’ve provided a few tips to help you get your new strawberries established and provide a successful harvest: Plant in well draining soil –...
Spring has arrived for some and is still around the corner for others. No matter what climate you are in, there are still some preparations to be made that can provide successful growth for the year ahead. Be sure to check out our top 6 tips for early spring fruit tree care below!...
Sam, our Horticulturist, provides his step by step process on how to successfully plant a bare root tree. Learn more by tuning in below!
There are few activities more rewarding to a gardener than being able to propagate their own plants. While vegetable gardeners throughout the world commonly propagate plants by germinating seeds, the subtle art of propagating woody plants via rooted cuttings brings its own unique challenges and joys. Figs are one of...
This week we sat down with Sean Hogan, one of the country’s most brilliant horticulturists, and one that lives just down the street from us on Sauvie Island. Sean runs Cistus Design Nursery that specializes in unique climate adapted plants and broadleaved evergreens that thrive in our climate. He quite...
Figs are one of the first plants many gardeners try to clone because of their notoriously quick and easy ability to be rooted from cuttings. And what could bring a gardener or homesteader more joy than propagating plants for free from ones that they already have? Even though rooting figs...
