Daniel's Pacific NW Garden

This is the Dawn Redwood now.  The leaves take on a cinnamon color - not the brilliant red of some maples or yellow of ginkgos.  This tree g...

 These are a few of the trees I've planted.  There are quite a lot more.  Here I'm sticking mainly with non-fruit trees, because mos...

 These are the first of the chestnuts this year.  The Marivale and Precose Migoule both bore some nuts.  Marivale drops them in the husk.  P...

Miscellaneous notes. I've been cleaning up my bearded iris bed.  It's kind of embarrassing how weedy and unkempt it became during ...

Most of the apple trees that I grafted this winter are here, on north side of a raised bed.  5.11.2020  This year I wanted to create a m...

This one is Maraval.  Last year, this tree was the first to bear, having two chestnut clusters last year.  This year, there are about 10 f...

 There was one other burr on the fledgling chestnut tree.  This notified me of its ripeness, by falling off. Those needles really are sh...

Chestnut Precose Migoule Grafted Tree.  6.4.18  The young chestnut trees are looking good now.  Last winter I planted a grafted tree ...

These are some of my semi-random thoughts.   I try not to be too contrarian, but I also think we have to think for ourselves. I saw this w...

Grafted Maravale.  10.17.17 Grafted Maravale.  10.17.17 Grafted Marigoule.  10.17.17  I have the chestnut trees tucked in for ...

 We had a large, old, dead tree cut down.  The arborist had a truck load of chipped tree branches, including those from our tree, so I ask...

Maraval Chestnut Tree in Deer Cage.  10.7.17 Things are winding down for the gardening season.  I am starting some maintenance and impro...

Blueberry Pie.  Mid Aug, 2017.  I haven't been keeping up on the garden blog.  With historic high temperatures, no rain - expected t...