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NN 2018
Contents
Overview
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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:
Some further information sites on mosses:
^ 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
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 . . .
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[ ] complete potting bench at garage window
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[ ] 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
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[ ] 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 . . . [½] [✔]:
- [ ] all bearded iris, save pure aril iris
- [✔] SDB RE "What Again" 2018 gift iris de Blue J Iris, Vada NM - 2019-04-10
- [✔] IB "Aqua Taj" cerca 2010 gift iris de Steve Schreiner on visit to iris farms - 2019-04-18 THU
- [ ] I. aphylla
- [✔] TB seedling 2009 tangerine de C. Harris
- [ ] IB RE "Halston"
- [lost] TB historic "Sable"
- [✔] seedlings (TB lost ID, Shreiner's ruffled yellow x TB RE "I'm Back")
- [ ] TB Alcazar in 4" round pot
- [ ] AB "Sheba's Jewel"
- [ ] AB "Heimdall"
- [lost] IB Apricot Topping
- [lost] pseudata iris pale yellow de C. Harris
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- [ ] 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 - 2019-04-07 SUN ✔
^ 2018 Spring Tasks
Works of 2018 to get living spaces and garden spaces up and usable. Bigger tasks include,
- [p] walking ramp south side - BIG
- [ ] walking ramp and leveled picnic table area north side - BIG
- [s] lawn replanting and sod disposition - BIG
- [ ] steps to and middle terrace above junipers
- [ ] leaf and soil removal from east side of top fence - BIG
Some smaller but important tasks include:
- [p] poison oak removal southeast corner
- [s] 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:
- [p] poison oak removal southeast corner
- [✔] cut large poison oak trunk climbing oak tree at fence
- [✔] pull poison oak stems at ground level and clustering along fence base
- [ ] clear English ivy, roots, leaf duff about base of poison oak plant
- [ ] pick up and safely store poison oak branches, stems and root pieces
- [ ] search for possible second large poison oak plant at corner of property
- [ ] paver stone edging along large front garden beds
- [ ] stone edging about bed touching chimney
- [ ] stone edging along small straigt front porch gaden bed
- [ ] stone edging along largest bed bounded by retaining wall
