Nn-2018

NN 2018

Overview

This wiki article holds Neela Nurseries' task notes and a couple of lists of things. Next to tasks the completed check mark is shown by HTML character code &#x2714.

^ 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
  
• snake plantain
  

^ 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

• 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

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, self pollinated
• [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

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. (2) one of four seedlings in this cross retrieved, and actually this seedling flowered either in 2018 or both prior year and 2018.

^ 2018 Spring Tasks

Works of 2018 to get living spaces and garden spaces up and usable. Bigger tasks include,

• [ ] walking ramp south side
• [ ] walking ramp and leveled picnic table area north side
• [ ] lawn replanting and sod disposition
• [ ] steps to and middle terrace above junipers
• [ ] leaf and soil removal from east side of top fence

Some smaller but important tasks include:

• [ ] poison oak removal southeast corner

• [ ] gate creation in fence southeast corner
• [ ] mulched trail from middle terrace to southeast corner
• [ ] paver stone edging along front porch bed

• [ ] paver stone edging along large front garden bed

• [ ] raspberry patch clean up
• [✔] wild flower thinning by driveway

Tasks which are in fact bigger:

• [ ] poison oak removal southeast corner
• [ ] paver stone edging along large front garden bed

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^ 2018 Autumn Tasks

North side:

• [ ] group together frost tender plants in 18 by 30 inch bins
  
• [ ] group together hardy succulents to be wintered outside under rain covers
  
• [ ] move potted perennials able to stay outdoors to middle terrace
  

• [ ] complete small back-filling task at north end of middle terrace
  

• [ ] complete weeding, venca and debris removal from north slope
  

South side low:

• [ ] move firepit blocks to north slope
  
• [ ] clear and mulch fire pit area with wood chips
  

• [ ] south walking ramp project steps (1):
  

• [ ] continue retainer blocks along lowest topology line to ramp base
  
• [ ] locate and clear concrete and other debris from garage foundation corner
  
• [ ] lay gravel and set first retainer blocks at garage foundation corner
  
• [ ] mulch lower part of ramp with wood chips
  
• [ ] set next three retaining block rows and determine row count at garage corner
  

• [ ] remove tarped camelia clippings at first cherry tree and south fence
  
• [ ] mulch with wood chips between lowest elevation cherry trees
  
• [ ] mark locations for first five walking steps at second cherry tree from garage along south fence
  

South side high:

• [ ] lay retainer blocks at top corner iris leaf composting spot
  
• [ ] mark trench line for water run-off from higher property east of backyard hillside
  

• [ ] set two- to three-block high temporary wall just below unwashed pots
  

• [ ] level below wall and plant sword ferns
  
• [ ] level above wall and lay fine gravel
  

Front yard:

• [✔] trim up and mulch scarlet runner beans at foot of chimney
  
• [✔] trim yellow and white oriental lily stalks, weed and clean up there
  
• [ ] remove last bit old sod and level and replant grass seed at southeast downspout French drain
  
• [✔] trim over-weighted branches of piernis shrub next to deck
  

Grey water feature:

• [ ] dig and bundle raspberries next to split rail fence
  
• [ ] weed and level soil in this bed
  
• [ ] lay gravel and stones for waste water basin
  
• [ ] mulch with wood chips around gravel basin
  
• [ ] lay larger square walking stones two or three for access to slope along rail fence
  
• [ ] consider space for day lilies or agapanthus between gravel basin and strawberries in row
  

Notes:
(1) carry over project from 2018 spring.

^ To Ground Plants

Key plants and seedlings to get into the ground:

• [ ] all bearded iris, save pure aril iris
• [ ] hardy cyclamen seedlings
• [ ] unidentified aster type ground cover, late winter 2017 FM purchase four-inch potted
• [ ] oriental lily seedlings from lilies 2015 of Bryan Parks, Veris community garden
• [ ] oriental lily "Nettie's Pride"

To pot plant starts:

• [ ] Concord and Niagra seedless grape stems

^ Buckets

2018-10-29 -- 7, 7, 8, 8, 2

2018-11-05 -- 3, 2, 3, 0, 0
2018-11-12 -- 5, 3, 4, 5, 5
2018-11-19 -- 6, 6, 1, 0, 0
2018-11-26 -- 0, 2, 0, 8, 8

2018-12-03 --

^ Sidelined plant descriptions

Following plant descriptions are for plants either sold out or temporarily not available in the size and form described:

• Agapanthus, also called "Lily of the Nile", pot of about eight seedlings. Being seedlings we cannot say what color or tint the flowers will have, but a couple siblings of these shows light, light blue flowers. Lily of the Nile generally give blue flowers. There is also a white flowering cultivar in commerce, and some dark blue and dark purple variants of this tough, South African origin plant.

Trouble getting this one into the database 2018-12-03 . . .

• Echinopsis oxygona, a barrel type cactus with very stubby short thorns. We've only grown this plant for a couple of years, and only small ones, but we have observed the beautiful and fragrant pink flowers a couple of times now on this safer less thorny cactus family member. In Pacific Northwest this plant will pretty much always be a container plant. One-year to two-year plants for sale for five dollars each, three year E. oxygona selling for eight dollars each. More info coming soon . . .

^ References to Add

HTML . . .

• https://www.w3schools.com/charsets/ref_utf_dingbats.asp

Specific plants and bulbs identified . . .

• http://www.wnps.org/landscaping/herbarium/seedberrylist.html
• https://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/Prosartes
• https://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/MysteryBulbs

2018-04-17

• https://www.nwcb.wa.gov/weeds/jubata-grass
• https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fsbdev2_037575.pdf
• https://www.nwcb.wa.gov/weeds/orange-hawkweed

Pollen structures . . .

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollen#Structure

Heliconus butterflies and mimicry . . .

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliconius#cite_note-19

2018-11-28

• https://the-cactus-man.myshopify.com/collections/echinocereus/products/ec002-echinocereus-fendleri and Claret cup cactus

• http://www.nwplants.com/business/catalog/rub_urs.html