“Winterizing” Your Garden – Villager Fall Class Series Prepare your garden so well this fall that it will reemerge healthy and vigorous next spring. Cut back perennials, tie trees and shrubs, prepare your lawn and “Fertilize with Biosol in Fall.” While it is...
Acer campestre and A. miyabei Acer campestre (hedge maple) and Acer miyabei (Miyabe maple) are highlighted here because they are two of our best screening trees. They are both cold-hardy, relatively fast growing, shade tolerant, winter sun tolerant, snow-load...
Though we’d LOVE to plant local red fir / silvertip (Abies lasiocarpa) in landscapes, like white fir, red-fir is seldom grown, extremely slow growing, and a challenge to transplant and establish (as are many drought-adapted Sierra species). Subalpine fir is rare but...
Villager Nursery had been involved in planning, constructing, and planting restoration projects for decades and we could all see the severe and destructive impacts that commercial rafting was having on the water quality, plant life, animal life and the overall health...
Personally, and professionally, I had a wonderful family wedding to enjoy just-north-of London in LATE June and since the whole family came from around the world to get there, we stayed an extra week and went to the Scottish highlands. The highlands reminded me of a...
