Daniel's Pacific NW Garden

Developing Fruits on Pawpaw "Sunflower".  5.25.19 After an initial quite hot spell, there has been chill and rain.  The vast m...

NC-1 Pawpaw.  10.8.18  Here is the first of the pawpaws. The outside is similar texture and skin as an avocado. Unlike avocado, the...

Paw Paw "NC-1".  9.17.18 Most of the paw paw fruits made it through the hot dry summer without problems.  Some that were expos...

 These are the 3 largest of the Paw Paw trees.  Sunflower and NC-1 were planted summer 2012.   That year I also planted "Rebecca'...

 This is the first year with real chance of ripe pawpaws.  I planted these trees as containerized trees, in summer 2012.  They have been b...

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...

NC-1 Pawpaw in bloom.  4.21.16 I've been using an artist's paint brush to transfer pollen between flowers of pawpaw varieties &q...

Home Orchard.  11.8.15 Home Orchard.  11.8.15 This is the main orchard at 3 years.  There are also fig trees by the house and in th...

Nikita's Gift Hybrid Persimmon.  11.3.15 Today I stopped by the One Green World nursery outlet in Portland.  Fall is a good time to ...

Container Figs.  5.130.15  Container figs all have thick mulch of chopped fir tree.  Some are doing better than others.  I've snapp...

Flower Buds on Nikita's Gift Persimmon.  5.19.15 Last Remaining Flower on Sunflower Pawpaw.  5.19.15 All but one of the pawp...

3-year-old NC-1 Pawpaw.  5.4.15 3-year-old Sunflower Pawpaw.  5.4.15 NC-1 Pawpaw flower shedding pollen.  5.4.15 Collecting...

Pawpaw blossom.  Sunflower pawpaw.  4.18.15 Saijo Persimmon with frost damage.  4.18.15 Yates Persimmon with frost damage.  4.18...

Main orchard.  3.28.15 Jonagold with multigrafts from Fedco.  3.28.15  Most plants are out of dormancy or nearly so. Plums are b...

Crimson Pointe Plum.  3.10.15 Peach and Plum flowers for pollinating.  3.10.15  Many of the plums and peaches are in full bloom. ...