tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73946354515621857182024-02-12T17:21:04.881-08:00Wild Ginger Farm News BlogWelcome!
Wild Ginger Farm is a mail order and retail nursery specializing in Alpine and Rock Garden Plants, select Western Natives and Woodland Plants from around the world. We are located near Portland, Oregon and ship plants to locations within the United States. Visit our <a href="http://www.wildgingerfarm.com">website</a> to learn more about us!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger65125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7394635451562185718.post-26944280934241406302013-04-27T08:41:00.000-07:002013-04-27T08:41:03.677-07:00Signs of Spring
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Late winter is a colorful time around the nursery when the early flowering Porophyllum or Kabschia saxifrages put on their annual displays. We are endlessly fascinated by the contrast between the tiny foliage of these cushion forming alpines and their large, showy flowers. In their natural habitats where they grow tucked in the crevices of rock outcroppings and cliffs, these flowers Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7394635451562185718.post-77580052026343087372013-01-03T10:45:00.000-08:002013-01-03T10:45:08.401-08:002013 Online Catalog
Kabschia Saxifrages
Our 2013 Online Mail Order Catalog is now complete and ready for viewing with 333 plant listings at last count. Keep in mind that it is a dynamic list that is updated throughout the season. Local customers should also be aware that the number of plants we grow at the nursery is more than double the number in the online catalog. Some plants are Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7394635451562185718.post-19346231765424906932012-09-24T09:20:00.001-07:002012-09-24T09:20:15.904-07:00Cascade Nursery Trail - Fall Plant Sales & Seminars
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7394635451562185718.post-16393250427496668442012-08-04T14:19:00.000-07:002012-08-04T14:19:56.522-07:00Pacific Horticulture Magazine
The Oregon specialty nursery community was highlighted in
the Summer 2012 issue of Pacific Horticulture Magazine. Wild Ginger Farm, along with our friends at
Dancing Oaks Nursery and Joy Creek Nursery, were featured in an article
entitled “Nurturing Plants & Gardeners:
Three specialty nurseries in Oregon offer fine plants, knowledgeable
help, and inspirational gardens”. &Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7394635451562185718.post-74604472262494264272012-07-05T08:41:00.000-07:002012-07-05T08:41:28.617-07:00Road Trip
A recent trip to the Siskiyou Mountains of Southern Oregon was
a great reminder of the reasons we grow native plants and create naturalistic
gardens in which to showcase them. Viewing plants in nature, whether on rocky
slopes, in meadows, woodlands or in alpine settings, is the perfect inspiration
for growing them at home. The Siskiyous are a botanically rich and diverse region and IUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7394635451562185718.post-52376746409102096682012-06-02T07:53:00.000-07:002012-06-02T07:53:09.240-07:00Around The Garden
Spring is such a delightful time of year, I thought I would share a few photos taken around our garden in recent days.
We grow a dwarf form of the non-climbing Clematis integrifolia. This is an easy to grow and extremely cold hardy perennial with short wiry stems and pretty steel blue flowers. It adapts well to a variety of garden conditions.
Alyssum stribrnyi&Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7394635451562185718.post-81884411937596629282012-05-09T07:53:00.001-07:002012-05-09T07:53:31.930-07:00Pacific Coast Iris
This is a great time to visit the
nursery if you are interested in Pacific Coast Irises. Most of the nursery plants are in flower and
the irises in the gardens are also coming into bloom.
Pacific Coast Irises (PCI) are a group
of 11 species of beardless irises that occur only in states along the West
Coast of the U.S. from Southern Washington southward through Oregon and into
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7394635451562185718.post-56137863894227026662012-03-22T09:42:00.001-07:002012-03-23T15:33:13.981-07:00Weather Teeter Totter
While the eastern half of the nation enjoys warm temperatures and an early gardening season, Western Oregon is in the throes of record-breaking winter-like conditions. Truls was out in the nursery for many hours overnight clearing wet and heavy snow off our hoop houses. Meanwhile I huddled inside with our lazy Border Collies and my sore back. The weather is improving this Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7394635451562185718.post-80685005635312835892012-03-07T08:25:00.000-08:002012-03-07T08:25:26.959-08:00Special Events This Week<!--[if gte mso 9]> 0 0 1 347 1983 16 4 2326 14.0 <![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7394635451562185718.post-16574069071490151882012-01-27T10:01:00.000-08:002012-01-27T10:01:27.005-08:002012 Mail Order Catalog<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 0 1 167 954 7 1 1171 11.1539 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> 0 0 0 <![endif]--> <!--StartFragment-->
Our online mail order catalog has been updated for the 2012 spring shipping season. One of the advantages of having an online catalog, compared to a printed one, is the ability to update it throughout the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7394635451562185718.post-19200189370584822922012-01-05T08:52:00.000-08:002012-01-05T08:52:06.640-08:00Garden Renewal<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 0 1 309 1764 14 3 2166 11.1539 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> 0 0 0 <![endif]--> <!--StartFragment-->
This is the time of year when we tend to take a moment to reflect on past accomplishments and plan for the future. For avid gardeners, this can take the form of scouring plant and seed catalogs, placing Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7394635451562185718.post-35545553464075740402011-12-09T09:13:00.000-08:002011-12-09T09:13:19.163-08:00Plant Lover<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 0 1 286 1635 13 3 2007 11.1539 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> 0 0 0 <![endif]--> <!--StartFragment-->
One of the joys of growing plants is that I get to fall in love every year. Usually several times.
The object of my affection this time of year is the lovely Cyclamen. It all starts in late Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7394635451562185718.post-91208272611791427552011-11-21T08:19:00.000-08:002011-11-21T08:19:51.377-08:00Best of 2011 - WGF on Facebook
Wild Ginger Farm is now on Facebook. We have selected a plant photo for each month of 2011 and posted them on our new Facebook page. Check them out and let us know your thoughts!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7394635451562185718.post-73558282922821874292011-10-23T09:33:00.000-07:002011-10-23T09:33:13.494-07:00‘Ling Ling’ Panda Face Ginger
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Are you familiar with Asarum maximum ‘Ling Ling’, the Panda Face Ginger? This very attractive evergreen wild ginger forms a clump of large dark green leaves that can be up to 8” long in mature plants. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7394635451562185718.post-6843699835032591582011-10-09T08:57:00.000-07:002011-10-09T08:57:15.846-07:00Pacific Coast Irises in Fall
Iris douglasiana
Fall is the time to move or divide Pacific Coast Irises. PCI’s are very particular about the timing of root disturbance. As many gardeners have learned, trying to divide them after spring flowering or during the summer months results in dismal failure. Trust me on this, I’ve tried it and have been spectacularly unsuccessful. What begins as a beautiful Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7394635451562185718.post-44834426781926252432011-09-24T09:03:00.000-07:002011-09-24T09:03:15.898-07:00Fall Update<!--StartFragment-->
The Fall season always brings a flurry of activity around the nursery. In addition to an array of plant propagation tasks, we will continue to have regular open hours through October until cold weather and rain close us down for the season. You can always check our website for our current open hours.
The late season flower of Crinum 'Ellen Bosanquet'
We Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7394635451562185718.post-38080047996914562032011-08-30T08:52:00.000-07:002011-08-30T08:52:48.000-07:00Autumn Gentian<!--StartFragment-->
Autumn Gentian
One of our favorite fall flowering perennials is the Autumn Gentian, Gentiana sino-ornata. It forms a low mat of rooting stems with grassy foliage from which upward facing, trumpet shaped flowers open in late summer to early fall.
Autumn Gentian flowers most commonly occur in alluring shades of blue from sky blue to a deep marine blue. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7394635451562185718.post-5421156111739564972011-08-09T07:59:00.000-07:002011-08-09T07:59:28.392-07:00Saturday Class "Plant a Succulent Container<!--StartFragment-->
Lewisia longipetala hybrid
Summer is the perfect time to enjoy drought tolerant and easy to grow succulent plants and we invite you to join us this Saturday, August 13th for a class entitled “Plant a Succulent Container”. You can bring your own pot or buy one here. We will provide potting soil, 4 plants and accent rocks. The fee for this class is $15Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7394635451562185718.post-79616925347977577402011-08-03T09:15:00.000-07:002011-11-07T08:28:11.582-08:00Tufa - The ultimate crevice rock
Tufa is a porous limestone rock useful in growing many alpine and lime loving plants. Not to be confused with hypertufa, a cement-based imitation used to create troughs and other lightweight containers, authentic tufa is a calcium carbonate mineral precipitate that occurs around lime rich bodies of water. We recently obtained a supply of tufa from the headwaters of the Columbia RiverUnknownnoreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7394635451562185718.post-63353755102985567022011-07-13T08:21:00.000-07:002011-07-13T12:29:01.367-07:00Crevice Plants
Dwarf forms of many rock garden plants make wonderful crevice plants. Crevices are those intriguing gaps between rocks where plants can grow while seeming to defy all odds. In rock gardens, we often intentionally create small spaces between rocks in which to tuck our plant treasures. Alpines and other rock garden plants are ideally suited to grow in these spaces as they often Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7394635451562185718.post-28402675963902915092011-06-23T08:32:00.000-07:002011-06-23T08:32:45.403-07:00Alpines and Trough Planting
Trough building has become very popular in recent years and most gardeners I know have at least a trough or two in their gardens. We are no exception. We have a collection of large and small troughs and have grouped them together into a trough garden. Some of the larger troughs are new this year and we are still in the process of planting them.
Planting a trough is a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7394635451562185718.post-27624409789030548072011-06-12T08:31:00.000-07:002011-06-12T08:31:28.251-07:00Vancouveria hexandra
Vancouveria hexandra, Inside Out Flower, is a noteworthy N.W. native woodland groundcover. It has pretty green foliage with interesting ternate leaves, giving it another common name, Duck’s Foot. The delicate sprays of distinctive white flowers in late spring resemble it’s close relative, Epimedium. Both are herbaceous members of the barberry family that also gives us other Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7394635451562185718.post-23971770149615072432011-06-03T08:43:00.000-07:002011-06-03T08:43:22.543-07:00Summer Classes<!--StartFragment-->
We are offering a series of classes at the nursery this season.
The first class “ Western Native Plants” is scheduled for Saturday, June 11th at 1 pm. We will be taking a closer look at the definition of native plants and how to evaluate your garden situation and select appropriate plants for it. Site preparation, ongoing care and maintenance issues willUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7394635451562185718.post-10018924018962421962011-05-28T09:01:00.000-07:002011-05-28T09:01:03.858-07:00Lewisia cotyledon<!--StartFragment-->
Lewisia cotyledon is a spring flowering, evergreen succulent found in the Siskiyou Mountains of Southern Oregon and Northern California. Vigorous hybrid varieties have been developed with colorful spring flowering displays and an extended flowering period.
Lewisia mound in rock garden
Lewisias are found in rocky crevices in nature and work well in alpine gardens, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7