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...
Peaches and Nectarines are some of the most delicious and desirable home grown fruits but unfortunately one of the more difficult ones to grow. Few tastes in the natural world can beat the flavor of a tree-ripened peach, the skin warm from the mid summer sun and the sugary sweet...
Sweet Cherry Pollination List Below you will find a compatibility list for sweet cherry varieties. The highlighted variety is compatible in pollination with the varieties following. Bing: Harland, Lapins, Rainier, Sam, Stella, Sweetheart, Van Hartland: Bing, Kristen, Lambert, Lapins, Rainier, Royal Ann, Sam, Stella, Sweetheart, Van Kirsten: Hartland, Lapins, Rainier,...
Varieties There are three types of Kiwis we can grow for fruit in the US. Fuzzy Kiwi (Actinidia deliciosa), is the species that produces the brown fuzzy Kiwi we commonly find in stores. It is a very vigorous vine that is hardy to about 0°F. Hardy Kiwi (Actinidia arguta) produces...
Adaptation in the Age of Warming As gardeners and nursery workers we have a keen eye on what we can expect from our local climate and what kind of weather we get in a season. While weather is constantly fluctuating our climate was historically thought to be relatively stable on...
