Eupatorium

A Monarch enjoying the flower of the Eupatorium Gateway Joe Pye Weed

Color me Pink!

Rosa Patriot Dream

We received this bunch of roses from our Oregon farm not too long ago.  A dreamy pink, these beauties are popping with color right now!  To the left, Juniperus x Daub's Frosted add a nice green contrast to the blushing hue.  

Iris-It's spring 2011 at work!

It's growing season again, back at the farm at work!  I haven't been able to take time out of my busy schedule really to photograph everything that's been growing around here.  Today I had an opportunity to take a quick break to shoot these Iris varieties.  Unfortunately, the date setting was on the camera, which takes away from the beauty of the photograph.  I'll have to remember to check that next time.  :)

Iris Halycyon Seas

Iris Heilotrope Bouquet

Iris Sky Wings

Iris Sky Wings

Iris Ceasar's Brother

Iris Butter and Sugar

The end of another shipping season!

The farm is near completed for winterizing!  Things look like a ghost town around the farm, now that everything is covered!

Some of the production crew covering the last of exposed plants.

Everything covered with a blanket of snow....

Brrrr!!!  Checking the fields for fallen signage.

A small hoophouse filled with perennials. 

Until next year.... goodbye farm!

change of season

It's that time of year again!  Fall brings about lots of preparation for overwintering on our farm!  And so we begin to get ready....

Hundreds of hoops and wood await to be assembled into overwintering greenhouses, or "hoophouses".  These greenhouses will be built, covered in plastic, and will store plants in which have a harder time overwintering without some form of protection.

Bails of Sudan grass lined up... this will be used to cover our container plants once they are consolidated together and tipped.

A crew of production workers cutting our perennials.  We cut back all of our perennials in the fall, along with some of of our shrubs.

Miscanthus grass cut back.  Some are untrimmed to ship to customers with orders this fall yet.

Some of our plants are covered in plastic as well as Sudan.  Piles of plastic standing by and waiting.

Unique markings

A new variety added to our inventory this year; Berb thun Admiration.  I especially like this variety because of its unusual variegation around the outer leaf edges.  A real eye catcher!

Construction under way

We're putting up 4 new greenhouses!  This will allow us to overwinter some of our perennials, and give them a "head start" on the perennials that are left in the field to overwinter.  So far, two of the "skeleton" frames are put together.