Daniel's Pacific NW Garden

Forsythia.  3.21.16  I love this time of year.  Buds swelling and opening, bulbs making themselves seen with leaves and flowers, trees a...

Among the more challenging aspects of growing Asian and Hybrid plums is pollination.  Some varieties self pollinate, many require a differen...

Hollywood Plum Development, 2 years from cutting.  10.27.15 Ember Plum, Hollywood Rootstock.  10.27.15 Vandalay Cherry Flower Bu...

Raining today.  Thinking about next year.  Replace some trees that died, and plan for a couple that might, and replace a couple of non- p...

Ember Plum on Hollywood Rootstock.  5.19.15  The grafts are growing like crazy.  A couple of container apples on salvaged rootstock are ...

Ember Plum.  Whip Tongue Graft at 43 days.  5.3.15 Ember grafted onto Hollywood at 41 days.   Growing rapidly.  The rootstock was bent, ...

Ember whip/tongue @ 6 weeks.   4.25.15 Columnar apple multigraft.  8 weeks.  4.25.15 Sketch for columnar apple multigraft. ...

The plum whip and tongue grafts that I did last month are looking good.   Buds are swelling for most of the grafts. Of the Fedco g...

Ember Plum Graft.  4.11.15 Redfield Apple Graft.  4.11.15 The first of the Fedco scion are out o dormancy.  I grafted these 3.21.1...

Fedco Scion Wood.  3.21.15 Jonared Apple with 5 other varieties now grafted.  3.21.15 I did the rest of the grafting at the Battleg...

Image of Ember Plum from Starks . Ember Plum Scion.  3.21.15  More grafting.  The plum rootstock is Hollywood Plum grown from cu...