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NN 2018

Overview

This wiki article holds Neela Nurseries' task notes and a couple of lists of things. A couple of general tasks not listed on a given season of the year include taking an inventory of plants potted and in ground, and creating a document which extends the inventory to list of plants and each one's care and time requirements.

In the seasonal projects sections, completed tasks gets a check mark which is shown by the HTML character code ✔.

^ Native plants at Neela Nurseries

The list of native plants both found on site and gathered now growing at Neela Nurseries includes:

• prosartes hookeri, "fairy bells"
  
• trillium
  
• rubus ursinus, native blackberry
  
• fragaria virginiana
  
• fragaria chiloensis, beach strawberry
  
• spirea douglasii
  
• sword fern
  
• licorice fern
  
• stonecrop emerald green
  
• stonecrop grey and dusty
  
• iris tenax
  
• iris douglasiana
  
• snake plantain
  
• cow parsnip
  
• snow queen
  
• widow grass
  
• lomatium columbiana
  

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• beaked moss
• oak moss (arboreal)
• step moss

Cool photo of curated living mosses at a Japanese temple:

• https://www.flickr.com/photos/thedays/2129728

Some further information sites on mosses:

• http://ibis.geog.ubc.ca/biodiversity/eflora/bryophytes.html

^ Iris seedlings underway

Following are iris seed and seedlings planted and underway . . . also in this section references to some of the parent iris plants both hybrid and species.

cerca 2010

• TB Cross Current x AB Turkish Tangent, pollinated ~2010, first flower 2017, second flower May 2018

• Aitken's tangerine IB sdlg A22M72 * AB Desert Plum, pollinated ~2010, first flower 2017, second flower May 2018 (3)

• TB Alcazar x AB Desert Plum, first flower 2017 and no flowers in 2018, retrieved in 2018 late August from side of Veris gardens (2)

2016

• TB Shrieners' ruffled yellow (no id) x TB RE I'm Back, planted early 2016 . . . potted 2017, need to be rowed out!

2017

• AB Aril Skyline x TB "Baker's Creek Blue" (note 1)

2018

• 2018-11-18 planted, AB Hannah's Prayer x AB Desert Diamond
• [2018-12-01] ASI 2016 No. 41 - X Dardanus x iberica elegantissima
• [2018-12-01] ASI 2016 No. 42 - mesopotamica - cultivated plant, OP (2 ct germinated)
• [2018-12-01] ASI 2018 No. 12 - AB Enchanter's Spell x OP
• [2018-12-01] ASI 2018 No. 22 - AB Signal Butte x OP
• 2018-01-15 I. douglasiana yellow form

2019-04 . . .

• (NN) SB Hannah's Prayer x AB Desert Diamond (1 ct germinated)
• (NN) TB Alcazar x TB no id "Baker's Creek Blue" (4 ct germinated)
• (NN) TB Alcazar seedling "alba" x TB Gypsy Lady (8 to 10 ct germinated)
• (NN) TB no id, Art Roy's purple and white plicata x I. stolonifera (3 ct germinated)

Parent iris hybrids and cultivars:

• AR Vera
• I. hookeriana . . . chance reference finding
• I. urmiensis . . . parent among 2018 ASI seed lots

• AB Desert Plum
• AB Turkish Tangent

Notes: (1) pot planted in or around 2018 January or March forgotten in freezer until late August of same year. One seedling appears in September 2018, second seedling appears in late December 2018.
(2) one of four seedlings in this cross retrieved, and actually this seedling flowered either in 2018 or both prior year and 2018.
(3) this seedling dubbed 'Aril Rose', flowered 2017 and 2018 but we only saw 2018 flower due to plant location.

^ Indoor Tasks

Indoor nn tasks include primarily completing and organizing work benches for mason bee habitat building and for potting work . . .

[ ] complete potting bench at garage window
[ ] organize space for tools, potting soil and amendments below
[ ] build riser frame atop bench to support plant trays during freezing periods


[ ] complete organization of second workbench left of garage window

[ ] organize tools atop second workbench [ ] . . .

[ ] sort and clean up all card board boxes and their contents, foot of garage stairs [ ] formalize a stud book for all iris crosses at Neela Nurseries

^ To Ground Plants

Key plants and seedlings to get into the ground. Working to move plants to ground and set these tasks to [½] and [✔]. Locating new planting locations must account for areas to become walking areas, and retaining walls, and locations must avoid areas yet to be leveled.

^ Iris

Bearded iris, save pure aril iris . . .
Seedlings:
• [✔] cerca 2015 1/4 AB Seedlings (TB Alcazar x AB Ameera), five count
• [ ] seedlings (TB lost ID, Shreiner's ruffled yellow x TB RE "I'm Back")
• [ ] seedling de 2011 or 2012 ASI seed sale, lot 29; (AB Aztec Prince x Pumila (TW)) or (Jallah Effendi OP (LR, France))may be lost

Species iris:

• [ ] I. aphylla

Standard dwarf bearded iris:

• [✔] SDB RE "What Again" 2018 gift iris de Blue J Iris, Vada NM - 2019-04-10

Intermediate bearded iris:

• [✔] IB "Aqua Taj" cerca 2010 gift iris de Steve Schreiner on visit to iris farms - 2019-04-18 THU
• [ ] IB RE "Halston"
• [ ] IB Apricot Topping

Tall bearded iris:

• [ ] TB seedling 2009 tangerine de C. Harris
• [✔] TB "Silken Trim", wine red gift iris de ultimo purchase de Schreiners
• [ ] TB Alcazar in 4-inch round pot
• [ ] TB historic "Sable"
• [ ] TB RE "I'm Back"
• [ ] TB RE "Autumn Harvest"




Arilbreds:

• [ ] AB "Sheba's Jewel"
• [ ] AB "Heimdall"




Beardless iris:

• [ ] pseudata iris pale yellow de C. Harris
• [ ] iris douglasiana de semillas, de Northwest Portland cerca 2015




^ Other bulbs and perrenials

Other bulbs and perrenials to plant:

• [ ] hardy cyclamen seedlings
• [½] oriental lily seedlings from lilies 2015 of Bryan Parks, Veris community garden
• [✔] oriental lily "Nettie's Pride"
• [ ] light yellow species day lilies in #4 pot, from NE Wisteria
• [ ] snake plantain native orchid, beneath rhododendron
• [ ] beargrass seedlings:
• [ ] four in-ground plantings
• [ ] sunken pot plantings near and just east of rhododendron
• [ ] unidentified aster type ground cover, late winter 2017 FM purchase four-inch potted
• [ ] chicory seedlings
• [✔] lupine seedlings