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I filmed this conifer in autumn light as part of my TreesWizard series, “Can You ID This Tree?” It resembles several species—Japanese White Pine, Korean Red Pine, even Scots Pine—but only one ID is correct.
The actual tree is Korean Pine (Pinus koraiensis), a cold-hardy conifer native to East Asia. It’s valued in permaculture for its edible pine nuts, wildlife support, and resilience in northern climates.
Have you planted Korean Pine in your food forest or cold-climate design? What conifers do you recommend for nut production, wildlife habitat, or long-term canopy structure?
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Got 3 potted, root bound mulberry’s in rough shape early this year, put them in the ground and let them be. They have all been hit with disease and pests but are way better than they were and look like they should make it through the winter. Should I trim and/or train them? Fertilizer? Also the last picture is from a small patch of weeded area that is putting off these yellow flowering bush that is filled with pollinators. What is it and how do I spread it further?
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Dracaena pinguicula (Walking Sansevieria), formerly known as Sansevieria pinguicula, is a small, attractive succulent with short stems …
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A visit to the Elisabeth C. Miller Botanical Garden in Seattle is always a highly sought after ticket, my visit on September 18th was just my third, the others were in 2013, and 2022. A tour of the garden’s ferns (organized through the Hardy Fern Foundation) was the reason for the trip. In the next post I’ll share those ferns, but today’s post covers the other things I saw, although I can’t promise there won’t be a fern or two…
Our group gathered in the house (Pendleton and Elisabeth Miller’s home, which now serves as office space for the garden staff and the Great Plant Picks program). We enjoyed coffee and refreshments (as well as bathrooms, much needed after my 4-hour drive up that morning!) and a little time to mingle before we started the garden walk.
This part of the house always confuses me a bit when I look back at photos. There’s an open air space between the house and an enclosed porch space. Of course I spend more time looking at the plants than the architecture.
Isn’t this just a beautiful setting? We walked out on to the lawn and paused for our fist fern sighting, but I was drawn to the cordylines, aeoniums and trough containers.
The garden is in a pretty sweet spot near Puget Sound, and listed as USDA Zone 9a, but there’s also a greenhouse on site, into which the marginal container specimens can be moved.
Walking on…
More containers at the back of the house…
And a fern table, Richie Steffen, Executive Director at the garden, is the man behind the fern table craze here in the Pacific Northwest.
I have one of these, a Hedera helix ‘Erecta’.
Theirs looks so much better than mine, I definitely need to put mine in the ground.
Now we’re at the edge of the parking area, on the side of the garden that begins the descent down to the deck with the water view. These table plantings were new this year, I think they’re calling them pollinator tables (a play on the fern table)…
So many fantastic containers in this garden!
I think this is a Rhododendron macabeanum? I asked my friend Emily Joseph, Assistant Nursery and Retail Sales Manager for the Rhododendron Species BG and if I remember correctly that’s what she said. Emily is also the Nursery Manager for the Hardy Fern Foundation and she was one of the tour leaders that day.
Pyrrosia sheareri in a curvy stump (want).
These next few containers are all on the lower deck that has the Puget Sound view.
This would never get old!
More pyrrosia…
There are a few tree ferns, Dicksonia antarctica, growing in the Miller Garden.
I took this fun begonia shot for Instagram, but decided to share it here too.
I finally got to poke around the greenhouse/nursery area at the garden!
So organized!
Inside their spore (and more) propagation area…
Itty bitty baby Pyrrosia sheareri (!)…
And nearby, baby agaves too!
Adiantum aleuticum var. subpumilum
These last couple of plantings are almost too sweet. They make me think of an Easter basket with all those pastel shades.
So springy! Back on Friday to ogle some ferns.
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