Imagine spending a morning amidst hundreds of thousands of vegetable, herb and flower seedlings just beginning to open to the world. I felt like a witness to summer's potential, just unfurling. I defy any gardener to walk through the acres of greenhouses at Log House Plants in Cottage Grove, Oregon and not be inspired by the sheer green biomass waiting to be shipped out to nurseries, and then to gardens, all over the country. Log House holds the kernel of summer in its greenhouses, and you can sense the vibrancy on the verge of exploding...
My dear friend Alice Doyle, plant wizard and proprietress of Log House, gave us the tour last week. My sister and I were enthralled by the sheer green magnitude of it all. Log House is a wholesale nursery that supplies big mail-order companies as well as nurseries in our area, including Christianson's Nursery in the Skagit Valley, Swanson's Nursery in Ballard, Molbak's in Woodinville, City People's Garden Store in the Madison Valley - there's a complete list on Log House's web page. This 30 year old nursery specializes in edibles, unusual plants of all kinds, annuals, vegetable and herb collections, heirlooms, and wildlife-friendly plantings. The variety and number of plants they produce is stunning.....
A couple of Log House's many greenhouses at their hillside site a few miles outside of Cottage Grove, home of the Avid Gardeners group as well as Territorial Seeds...
Coleus luxuriating in the greenhouses until the outdoor temperature warms up
Peas, from Blauschokken Purple Pod Pea to ones with edible tendrils, ready to go outside and into the ground...
'Big Rose' bronze leaf fibrous begonia with super-sized blooms
From old wooden flats to a teapot collection, let alone the flock of chickens, ornamental borders and vegetable beds, everything at Log House speaks of the place's long and creative history
Coleus luxuriating in the greenhouses until the outdoor temperature warms up
Wow, I it is great to leave here specially the delicious vegetables and herbs is really wonderful.
Posted by: online consultation | March 25, 2010 at 12:22 PM