We are back from a great trip out west to visit our supplier nurseries in Oregon. The weather was beautiful & the nurseries were even better! We are very proud to have such great nurseries to partner with. All of growers we work with produce top quality trees & the fields out there have never looked better! Here is a re-cap of some of the visits we had on our trip:
Carlton Plants – We started off the trip with a tour at Carlton Plants. Their fields were picture perfect as always. The day ended with Carlton Plants annual salmon dinner. The salmon was caught the day before & cooked in this traditional method. It was a real northwest treat!
Carlton Plants Salmon Bake
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Carlton Plants Tulip Tree
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Carlton Plants salmon cooked the traditional way
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J. Frank Schmidt Nursery – We were treated to 2 tours of the Schmidt farms. Their Barlow Farm is where most of the liners we buy are grown. Roger & Sam gave us a great tour of the fields. Everything looked perfect & we saw a few new trees to add to our mix as well. We also toured their Hood Acres farm where most of their root bag & container tree production is. Some of our new favorites we saw were Urban Sunset Maple, Green Whisper Bald Cypress, Beacon Oak, & Armstrong Gold Maple.
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J. Frank Schmidt Nursery Ginkgo
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Gigantic Tulip Tree Leaves
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Green Whisper Bald Cypress – a new one we are adding to try – great foliage
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White Shield Osage Orange – we have been growing this new variety for a few years now
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Espresso Kentucky Coffee Tree – a new favorite variety which is seedless
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Urban Sunset Maple – Roger showing us a new hybrid variety we are going to try out next year
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J. Frank Schmidt Nursery Arboretum Tour – This part of the trip needs it’s own write up! To celebrate their 70th year, the Schmidt family hosted employees & customers for a fantastic evening. The grounds of the Schmidt family Arboretum were the perfect setting for the event which was kicked off by a tour led by Michael Dirr & Keith Warren. To those in the plant world – they need no introduction! Below are some highlights from the tour. Thanks Schmidt team & here’s to another 70 years of great trees!
Below are some pics & a video clip of Dirr & Warren talking about Oaks:
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Streetspire Oak – great form on this as it matures
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Crimson Spire Oak – one of the oldest ones around
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Michael Dirr & Keith Warren giving the J. Frank Schmidt Arboretum Tour
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Crimson Sunset Maple – this hybrid has become our favorite for purple foliage
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Streetspire Oak – we have been growing this for a while & really like the form & foliage
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Beacon Oak – a new bicolor variety introduced by Michael Dirr. We were impressed & ordered some for next year!
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Emerald City Tulip Tree – this new intro from Schmidt is a great tree for the urban landscape
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Triumph Elm – one of the first elm hybrids & still one of the best
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Heritage Oak – this English & Bur hybrid is becoming one of our favorites in the nursery
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Robinson Nursery – Josh & Chris at Robinson Nursery gave us a great tour of their fields & container production. We get some really nice container oaks from them as well as some other species. They have a great product & are fun to work with!
Robinson Nursery Oaks
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The “HOT” new Coffee Tree – Decaf!
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Kuenzi Nursery – Myron always enjoys showing off his nursery & we once again saw some great trees! We like his root bag method of growing & his trees transplant well for us in our nursery.
Myron at Kuenzi Nursery showing us his trees
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Around Oregon… We also had time to enjoy a few days of beautiful Oregon! From biking in Portland to hiking at Mt. Hood – Oregon is a great place to do business with fun on the side!
Gorgeous Mirror Lake & Mt. Hood
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Biking in Portland
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Hiking in the Hood!