Happy New Year everyone. My advice for the year is to stay away from the news and your devices and spend more time in nature and your garden. The crazier things get on the outside, the harder it is for me to stay centered on the inside.
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Plant varieties ordered from Dave Wilson Nursery for 2024: Braeburn Apple – Superb late season fruit: very crisp and tangy, more flavorful than Granny Smith. Excellent keeper. Green with dark red blush. October-November harvest. Discovered in New Zealand in 1952, grown in U.S. since 1980s. 700 hours.
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The holidays are upon us, and the big news here is Christmas. The cut trees are in stock now. Doug Firs Nordmanns and Nobles 4/5 foot start at $40 5/6 at $45 6/7 at $55 7/8 at $65 8/9 at $75 9/10 foot at $90. 5/6ft start
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Winter Hours Start Nov 1 Open 10-4, 7 days/week Closed Thanksgiving Day Another month has whizzed by, and we are heading into winter. Below freezing temps and frost has been greeting us the past couple of mornings, and we have brought in all the house plants
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Every year at this time, I say we should be busier now than in spring. Why, you ask? It is because fall is the best time to plant trees, shrubs, hardy perennials, and, most of all, native plants. A native plant is a member of a balanced
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Labor Day Weekend Hours: Sat and Sun 9-5, Mon 10-2 Customer Appreciation Weekend: Sept 16th and 17th, details to follow. There is a lot of talk about climate change, and the toll modern life is taking on species diversity. If you spend time outside, in nature, in
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We have made it through the worst month for water use and usually the worst month for sun and heat stress on our plants and us. Even though we will probably have some more 100-degree-plus days, the sun will not be as strong, and the days are
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Closed 4th of July My computer is not cooperating tonight. It just took me 50 minutes to get to a blank sheet of my Pages program. First, I sat down, and the computer had to reload. That takes forever on a good day, but it refused to
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June is here, and the Summer Solstice is just 3 weeks away. I always find it a little hard to take that the days start getting shorter soon. However, on some of those scorching days we get, I can not wait for the sun to go down,
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I don’t know about you, but this abundant sunshine with heat is taking its toll on me. I will adjust with time, but for now, it feels too fast, too soon. The good news is the ground is warming up, so we can plant our warm-season vegetables
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