Category: Horticulture
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Greenhouse Bench Prototype
I’ve created a prototype of a greenhouse bench based on my memory of benches used in greenhouses made by Fricker’s Greenhouses of San Gabriel and Southern California Greenhouse Manufacturers of El Monte. Both of this institutions have vanished and there is almost nothing available on the Internet about them. This was a project scheduled for…
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Blc. Honolulu Sunset ‘Wakida’ AM/AOS
Blc. Honolulu Sunset ‘Wakida’ AM/AOS My first “division” from the mother plant winning the American Orchid Society Award of Merit. This plant it is not a mericlone. A mericlone is a plant propagated from a tissue culture taken from a desirable plant. A single mericlone can produce limitless clones. Mericlones often are slightly different because…
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2024 Peck Cottage Garden
Peck Cottage at 1552 Court Street NE, Salem, OR, is next door to our home and was purchased in 2019. The cottage is within the Court Street Chemeketa Street Residential Historic District (nominated and accepted in 1987 to the National Register of Historic Places maintained by the U.S. National Park Service). The property was home…