Summer Propagation
7/13/24 @ 10:30am – 1:00pm – Chip budding and softwood cuttings – Summer is a great time to successfully propagate from cuttings as well as graft trees by chip budding. We will discuss and demonstrate the principles and process of chip bud grafting as well as how to clonally propagate plants. You will gain confidence to put these new skills to […]
George’s Corner: Springtime Garden Care
Brilliantissma Red Chokeberry
Aronia arbutifolia ‘Brilliantissima’
Winter Damage, Spring 2022
Mid-May, and my 29 year old Desert King Fig is still not leafed out. Usually by this time, it has leaves and is beginning to push new growth. This old fig sits against our sunroom, and has never had significant winter damage before, even though I live where we get significant Fraser outflow winds. But […]
Verticillium Wilt in the Garden
Download a pdf on Verticillium Wilt Diagnosis A plant in your yard is dying. It is late summer, and, one limb at a time, the leaves shrivel and drop off. You cut a limb that has died from the poor tree and cut into it. You see black or brown streaking in the wood. This […]