The Nursery

It would be VERY expensive to go to the local retail nursery to buy the 50 plants we will need to get the hedgerow started. Fortunately, we have some options. Both Kitsap Conservation District and Clallam County Conservation sell native plants that we can order in January, pick up in March. Their new plant lists aren't out yet, but last year, for example, you could buy 10 bareroot Snowberry plants (8"-12") for $11.00. Not bad.


Another option is to set up our own nursery, and do our own starts from existing garden plants or from native plants on our property. Okay, let's try it. For his birthday this year, I bought Husband a book called, "Propogation of Pacific Northwest Native Plants." It says things like, "Strip the basal end leaves and treat the cutting with a medium-strength rooting hormone, stick into a perlite:vermiculite (1:1) mixture and set on a misting bench with light mist at 21 degrees Centigrade." So...we took cuttings off some stuff, dug up some other stuff, and stuck them all in pots of dirt. After all, Nature does this stuff on her own without a misting bench. Some of them will probably survive.





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