Spring is here and people are asking: Are we going to open the nursery sometime this year or what? The answer is yes, we are, so that’s something. However, we have had another hard winter, whic...
https://desertnw.wordpress.com/2023/05/31/2023-opening-plans-10-exciting-plants/
At last, 2022, the second worst year after 2020, is drawing to a close. So it must be time for a blog post to describe some of the ostensibly positive things that have happened, or will happen, a...
https://desertnw.wordpress.com/2023/01/10/2023-new-year-update/
Hey, we’re still alive! Who knew? You might think, seeing as how the last blog update was over a year ago, that we had vanished from the face of the earth. But no, we are still very much here, ...
https://desertnw.wordpress.com/2021/09/08/fall-2021-open-days-and-general-update/
At last, we have landed on a reopening date, which will be on Saturday, June 20th, the first day of summer! Yay. We will also plan to be open Saturdays through at least early August. Later I’ll...
https://desertnw.wordpress.com/2020/06/16/june-20th-reopening-and-covid-protocol/
So the question of the spring has been, are we ever going to reopen or what? And the other question has been, why can’t we see a list of your inventory online? As some of you may recall, we had...
First off, a slightly late Merry Christmas to all! We hope no one’s grandma got run over by a reindeer this year. Well with the holidays more or less behind us, I’m certain we must all have o...
https://desertnw.wordpress.com/2020/01/10/problems-with-municipal-street-tree-code/
So, a pleasantly mild summer here in Clallam County, Washington has come to a harsh and dreary end. Who remembers the hot summer we had in 2009 when it reached 103 in Seattle? We actually rea...
https://desertnw.wordpress.com/2019/09/24/2019-a-great-year-for-bamboos-and-ferns/
So here it is, almost summer already, having our usual bit of cool June weather before it really kicks in. And what looked like it would be a great year for our nursery back in January has turned...
https://desertnw.wordpress.com/2019/06/18/summer-2019-update-and-nursery-open-days/
Dear Readers, Well it has been a heck of a winter, as you know if you live in the Pacific Northwest. But, for better or worse, we have survived and are still here. We’d be singing a differe...
Nolina parryi subsp. wolfii in the Kingston Mountains Who remembers way back when I first started the nursery—which, a few of you may recall, began as a seed business—and I did quite a bit of...