Cistus Nursery
I like to play outdoors with my digital camera. Just lately I have been taking pictures for our newly revamped web site at Cistus Nursery; discover the web site right here! Bridget has been laborious at work on the revamp, and I feel the web site appears fabulous. I do know it should proceed to evolve and develop as we add extra vegetation for mail order. So, final week being the winter solstice and all moody-foggy (and as I used to be caught up with web site pictures for the day), I strolled a little bit past the greenhouses and ventured into among the gardens at Cistus Nursery. Since gardening for many of us involves a crawl this time of the 12 months, exploring a backyard that continues to excite even in December is a pleasure to share. Right here then is a little bit little bit of Cistus Nursery on a winter solstice day.When heading to Cistus down Gillihan Highway on Sauvie Island which is sort of rural and agricultural, it is easy to overlook the driveway to the nursery. However no extra, this new signal was revealed this summer season and makes it crystal clear the place all of us must go. Flip right here for plant geekery!Trying down the drivewayArctostaphylos in entrance of appropriately rusted metallic siding.Within the car parking zone an Aesculus californica, California buckeye, is so closely lined in lichen that it’s pretty to take a look at lengthy after its leaves and seeds have fallen.Osmanthus within the backyard alongside the driveway, doubtless O. ‘Sasaba’.Araucaria araucana, monkey puzzle tree, alongside the drive.Certainly one of my private favorites, Rhamnus alaternus ‘Variegata’, an evergreen shrub with many functions, together with a superb supply for vacation greenery.Because the driveway ends there’s an island often known as the Desert Island that’s closely amended with rocky materials and really well-drained soil. It’s densely planted with all method of spiky issues and appears nice year-round.Yucca rostrata, the “mascot” for Cistus Nursery.Right here is the Cistus brand, full with Yucca rostrata. Paintings by Mark Bulwinkle.In Sean’s personal phrases, this can be a pale-spined clone of Opuntia whipplei.Extra of the Desert Island cloaked in fog. Take a look at all these beautiful spikes!Opuntia (maybe O. ‘Oh’) with very fairly coloration.Hebe cupressoides ‘Boughton Dome’Muhlenbergia rigens, deer grass.Lyonothamnus floribundus var. aspleniifolius, Catalina ironwood. I’ve needed this tree for some time and I am happy to say now we have it on the market, so, after all, I purchased one.Pinus contorta var. latifolia ‘Chief Joseph’, lodgepole pine, in its winter coloration.Pittosporum tenuifolium ‘Elizabeth’, one other evergreen shrub with a little bit sparkle, particularly on a darkish winter day.There are a number of stunning and lots of mature eucalyptus within the gardens at Cistus Nursery.Many implausible grasses grace the Rancho Cistus gardens.And bushes, too.Hawthorn, Crateagus x lavallei ‘Autumn Glory’ department discovered on a bench.Carex secta alongside a path provides motion and colour 12 months spherical.Sean and Preston created a brand new crevice backyard of their personal backyard on web site, it’s in its second 12 months and is basically starting to fill in.Right here it’s photographed March of this 12 months.So many fascinating and new-to-me vegetation right here, I stay up for studying extra over time.In fact, spiky issues love this well-drained gravelly setting.For a summertime take a look at the crevice backyard, my buddy Loree of Hazard Backyard captured some pretty photographs and featured them on her weblog this week, about half approach down the publish there are a number of photographs. Here’s a hyperlink.Brilliant berries on the shortest day of the 12 months appear applicable.Phlomis taking over frosty glitter on a foggy day.Garrya x issaquaensis ‘Carl Inglish’Pacific tree or refrain frog in one of many greenhouses. On Sauvie Island there are literally thousands of these native frogs. On the nursery we hear them commonly however seldom see them as they’re masters of camouflage. We like having them round as they deal with many pests similar to slugs. A reasonably previous Berberis jamesiana lined in moss.Taxodium mucronatumMisty winter vibes.We had some enjoyable guests to the retail nursery today. Right here a barred owl sits remarkably near my colleague Aubrey, and me, placing up with my digital camera.Closed eyes….typical for household portraits.Serious about flying away, which did occur moments after this was taken.A pair signature Agave ovatifolia ‘Frosty Blue’, a Cistus introduction, within the Desert Island mattress.Whereas I didn’t intend to {photograph} for a weblog publish about Cistus Nursery backyard today, I felt I had sufficient fascinating photographs to place one thing collectively to brighten the darkish days of winter. It jogs my memory I ought to come out right here with the intention of a weblog publish (or three) for this backyard is so fascinating year-round. Sean and Preston have put collectively a gardener’s delight, rising hardy, stunning vegetation in addition to uncommon, laborious to search out and spiky beauties higher than most anybody I’ve come throughout. The range is astounding, however this shouldn’t be stunning, as Sean and Preston are plant collectors and botanists within the true sense of the phrase. So. Come out and go to us someday if you‘re within the space, we’re open day by day year-round (save for holidays, naturally). I am there on Thursdays doing my factor.That is a wrap for this week at Chickadee Gardens, as at all times thanks a lot for studying and commenting, we love listening to what pursuits you! Pleased gardening and Pleased New 12 months! A couple of enjoyable hyperlinks, Cistus-related after all:
Supply hyperlink
I like to play outdoors with my digital camera. Just lately I have been taking pictures for our newly revamped web site at Cistus Nursery; discover the web site right here! Bridget has been laborious at work on the revamp, and I feel the web site appears fabulous. I do know…