Posts Tagged ‘nursery’

Thig­amotrope Satel­lites with Air Plants from Flora Grubb

Thig­motrope Satel­lite is the eas­i­est way to make a ver­ti­cal gar­den indoors. Just screw it in the wall and your tilland­sias have a styl­ish new home. Thigmotrope Satel­lite is a steel tri­pod with a threaded base, designed to be a screw-​in perch for tilland­sia air plants.

A close up thigamotrope

A Christ­mas orna­ment from Laura Eubanks

On the Web:

Aus­tralian Native Plants Nurs­ery (Ojai) is fea­tur­ing a very beau­ti­ful plant this week called Euca­lyp­tus “Moon Lagoon”. Owner Jo O’Connell also has a new ship­ment of books for hol­i­day gift­ing. Check out her web­site by click­ing on the but­ton to the right.

Atten­tion: Palm and Cycad lovers: Owner Phil Bergman of Jun­gle Music (Encini­tas) is offer­ing a very desir­able selec­tion of palms and cycads, many of them new to his nurs­ery. Some are col­lec­table; there are cold tol­er­ant plants on offer. Phil is very help­ful to begin­ners and will make sure you get the right plant for your needs. He is also well known to col­lec­tors, and car­ries spec­i­mens from all over the world. Go to www​.jun​gle​mu​sic​.net (619−291−4605) for pho­tos and info.

The photo says it all…

A trip to Detroit would not be com­plete with­out a pil­grim­age to the mecca that is known as Detroit Gar­den Works. Why are there not sim­i­lar stores to this gardener’s Dis­ney­land in other large cities? That is because Deb­o­rah Sil­ver, the tal­ented owner of DGW, lives in Pon­tiac, Michi­gan and her store would not exist with­out her vision and, more impor­tantly, enthu­si­asm. A fine artist, Deborah’s gar­den­ing voca­tion started when work­ing at a nurs­ery. Grad­u­ally she cre­ated Detroit Gar­den Works, The Branch Stu­dio, a “made in Michi­gan” arti­sanal man­u­fac­turer, and Deb­o­rah Sil­ver and Com­pany, her land­scap­ing com­pany. In her “spare” time she blogs about her work on Dirt Sim​ple​.com.

It’s hard to describe what a great gardener’s par­adise DGW is. Every­where I turn I am inspired, by the plant­i­ngs, the stat­u­ary, foun­tains, antiques! I espe­cially love the orbs and I’m going to have one in my gar­den some­day. Most every­thing is avail­able online — Deb­o­rah isn’t afraid to ship any­thing! Check it out — where else are you going to find Thome­son Cud­worth Com­pany lawn edging?

www​.detroit​gar​den​works​.com, www​.the​branch​stu​dio​.com, www​.deb​o​rah​sil​ver​.com

Dog sculp­ture from The Branch Studio

Deborah’s real dog is not for sale..

Escapism at its finest! I can’t say this Hawai­ian nurs­ery is the most gor­geous in the world — as I haven’t expe­ri­enced them all (alas) — but it has to be close. Has any­one seen a big box store nurs­ery as nice as this one or most neighborhood/​speciality nurs­eries? We need to sup­port them as they are all rel­a­tively small busi­nesses in a slow econ­omy — what would we do with­out them?

On the web:

• Wednesday, April 20: Stephen Orr lec­ture about his new book Tomorrow’s Gar­den; www​.gar​den​con​ser​vancy​.org
• Thurs­day, April 21: Lec­ture and Field Trip on Land­scap­ing as if the Water­shed mat­ters at the Los Ange­les Arbore­tum; jill.​berry@​arboretum.​org or (626) 821‑4623 –pre­reg­is­tra­tion required.

Alex and his caper berry tree

If you go visit Alex, owner of Papaya Tree Nurs­ery in Granada Hills, plan to be trans­ported into his mag­i­cal king­dom, aka his back yard! Noth­ing is as it seems in his realm; there is the mango tree with 7 dif­fer­ent vari­eties grafted onto it, the banana clus­ter with the dove nest on top…not to be picked until the babies were gone…best bananas I ever had! He has spe­cial cherry trees that bear fruit in warm cli­mates (very rare) and and caper berry trees for the purist who must pickle their own! Alex actu­ally does a lot of busi­ness with chefs and cooks. He is an expert on graft­ing and prun­ing. He can also design a scented gar­den. All this knowl­edge and the nurs­ery comes from his father, an engi­neer who started the enter­prise 26 years ago. He is obvi­ously a favorite with the Cal­i­for­nia Rare Fruit Grow­ers — LA chap­ter. And the SoCal Che­r­i­moya Soci­ety. Oh, you never heard of them? What about the East Indian curry leaf tree.….….Oh, and you could have a nice lit­tle meal at his nurs­ery, just sam­pling the fruit.

Best bananas ever — can you see the dove nest on top?

Papaya Tree Nurs­ery (www​.papay​a​treenurs​ery​.com) 12422 El Oro Way, Granada Hills, CA 91344 (818) 363‑3680 (always call first), 7 days a week, 8am to 6pm, accepts Visa and Mastercard.