Plant of the Month
Fabulous Fall Color Trees
Fall foliage color is beginning to happen at the nursery. Our wonderful Chinese Pistache trees are showing color as we speak. I highly recommend them as a superb shade tree for our area. Other fabulous fall foliage trees in stock and included in the featured special are Red Maple, Japanese Maples, Sweet gum (Liquidamber), Sourgum (Nyssa), Raywood Ash, Ginkgo, Crape Myrtle, and Ornamental Pear. These trees do not rely on sharp frost for good color so are all good sources to light up your yard for autumn.
November Specials
All glazed pottery – 30% OFF
Roses and deciduous fruit trees continue at 30% OFF regular price.
Plant of the Month – 20% OFF regular price – (Listed Fall Foliage Trees
Limited to stock on hand)
- Chinese Pistache
- Liquidamber
- Nyssa
- Ginkgo
- Ornamental Pear
- All Maples
- Raywood Ash
- Crape Myrtle shrubs and tree form
Subscriber Coupon:
Save 20% on our fabulous daffodils, tulips, paper whites and entire selection of spring blooming bulbs for fall planting.
November Newsletter
First things first. I want to remind everyone that our winter hours begin Sunday Nov. 4th along with the time change. Winter hours are 10-4, 6 days a week, closed Wed. We are also open by appointment if those hours do not suit you.
November 10th is my SOFT order deadline for bare-root fruit trees. Please have all your special orders in to me by then so I can collate the orders by Dave Wilson’s deadline. After that date you will be at the mercy of my selections for stock bare-root trees. I want to remind everyone that our bare root season does not begin till the end of January.
Some of us focus on trees for fall color but many shrubs put on a good show also. Our Snowball Viburnums are just starting to change. Other shrubs that put on some nice fall color before dropping their leaves are Spireas, Barberry, Rockspray Cotoneaster, Lilacs, Nine Bark, Smoke Bush and Hydrangea.
We still have a good selection of cool season vegetable starts including garlic and white and yellow onions. Turns out we will not be getting the red onions as hoped. Here are a couple of companion planting tips for now- Radishes attract leaf miners (away from your spinach and chard, etc.) and the damage they do to the foliage does not hurt the radish growing under ground. I do not know about you but I always get miner damage in my chard. Catnip along with collards reduces flea-beetle damage. Onions and chives can repel some pests also so consider planting them among your other vegetables. Chives and/or garlic with roses repel rose pests, including aphids.
November marks the beginning of the dormant spray season for fruit trees and roses. It is recommended that 3 sprayings be done each year, especially if you have had any infestation of insects or fungal type pests. Any other ornamental tree or shrub in your yard that had an infestation of some type would benefit also. (Thanksgiving, New Year and Valentines Day are easy benchmarks to remember.) The oil spray is for over wintering insects and copper spray is for fungal/bacterial things like peach leaf curl. We also stock an all purpose orchard spray that uses sulfur and pyrethrum. We now have a refrigerator for our ladybugs and beneficial nematodes and just received fresh stock of both. Beneficial nematodes are an organic control for tree borers-attacking them in the ground while they are in the pupate stage. They are also called flea destroyers as they can control fleas in the yard. It is a good practice to apply nematodes to your orchard every two to three years as a preventative.
We expect our fresh batch of balled and burlaped ( B and B) potted conifers for living holiday trees to arrive sometime around the middle of the month. We will again have a limited selection of cut Douglas and Noble Fir trees for the first week end in December until we sell out so get in early for best selection.
Happy Gardening,
Tanya