As I mentioned yesterday, the weekend before last had me at Gossler Farms Nursery in Springfield, Oregon. I’ve already sheared the biggest highlight of the visit but there was so much else to see!
This nice agave collection is cozied up next to the office under the eaves.
There are some good ones in there, especially surprising for a nursery specializing in magnolias, dogwoods and witchhazels...
But oh the magnolias...
Kinda hard to believe someday these will be tall cardiocrinum...
Don't you just love the possibilities?
Oh ya...
Fall color in March...
Rhododendron 'Elsie Frye'
Rhododendron edgeworthii
And the family from which my Rhododendron 'Ebony Pearl' came from...
Their gunnera, all toasty in a greenhouse, are a lot further along than mine. But heck, I'm just happy mine has a green leaf showing up after last winter's cold.
Trochodendron aralioides, or the Wheel Tree
I was just telling a friend the other day that I'm not so sure if I like these.
Oh the magic altered schedule of a greenhouse,!
No label on this grevillea, it's a looker though!
One of my strange infatuations, Cunninghamia lanceolata.
And one of those yellow pines everyone is so hot for...
Quercus dentata 'Carl Ferris Miller'
No label on this guy and he was the only one of his type around. I think it's Pittosporum illicioides 'Strappy' and since I killed mine by moving it and accidentally breaking off its largest root I really considered grabbing this one, but no, it stayed behind.
This greenhouse appears to be more of a propagation and "special plants" space, it's where I found the sad looking variegated daphniphyllum.
Finally it was time to wander the display garden a bit, just a bit though the weather was quite wet. Here's a large Trochodendron aralioides, see what I mean about not being sure I like it. It's not terribly attractive, in my opinion.
And see what I mean about wet?
And windy too.
I love these...
Okay I've fast forwarded to the end of our visit. I've paid for the daphniphyllum and it was time to get on the road home, however how could we leave when there was free entertainment. The little guy, a Corgi named Bennie was using the big dogs tail as a chew toy, and then his body as a trampoline, it was really too cute.
And he knows it...
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