Daniel's Pacific NW Garden

 There is a role for summer and for winter pruning of apples.  Summer pruning is more dwarfing, but can expose apples to sunburn.  Growth on...

Columnar Apple NorthPole, Transplanted Fall 2017.  7.14.19 New Columnar Apple Golden Treat.  7.14.19  Here are some of the columnar...

Columnar Apple Grafts on Bud-9 Rootstock.  5.27.19 Some of the new fruit grafts were quite stressed by recent hot weather.  They were no...

First Growth, Northpole Apple on Bud-9 Rootstock.  4.17.19 First Growth, Northpole Apple on Bud-9 Rootstock.  4.17.19 This is the u...

Northpole, 19 years old.  3.25.19 I've been growing a Northpole ™ columnar apple for about 18 years.  In 2012 I added columnar Scarl...

Yesterday I receive my order from Raintree, which I planted today. Two columnar apples:  Tasty Red and Golden Treat.   I think the name...

I've started providing some care for the apple tree area.  This is for the dwarf and columnar trees.  One of the transplanted trees wa...

Saijo Persimmon Tree.  10.28.15 This post has odds and ends from a few garden tasks, and walking around. The Asian type persimmons ar...

Three year old tree, made from "North Pole" scion .  10.6.18 Last year, I transplanted a columnar apple tree that I had start...

Standing next to NorthPole Apple.  4.7.16  Here are the current blooming apples in the Vancouver yard.  This is all of my varieties ther...

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

Whip-Tongue, 3 months later.  Columnar Apple.  6.6.15  These are the grafts I did in march on 1-year-old columnar apple trees. There i...

Whip / Tongue with Parafilm.  Columnar Apple.   Two months after grafting.   5.3.15 Whip / Tongue Graft on Columnar Apple.  Two month...