Moving Sale

Posted on May 18, 2013 by paohorticultural.com

Happy Victoria Day weekend! What a beautiful day! The yard is alive with flowers and everything looks so fresh and green. We have moved several hundred trees already to our new location so only 27000 to go! Over the next few weeks we are promoting our moving sale – so feel free to come in and browse. We just know something will entice you and that will relieve of us having to move one more tree – every tree counts! There are thousands birds nesting in the trees and it is so noisy around here. Interestingly enough we were delivering and installing a tree to a residential property in Mississauga – a beautiful Serbian Spruce. It was moved from the nursery and loaded onto a large diesel truck on an angle. It was then tarped and traveled 20 km to it’s new home. There it was then loaded onto a machine and planted in the backyard. Once installed the foreman noticed a nest of blue eggs in the tree. The only way those eggs could have survived that trip is if the mother was sitting on the nest. Sure enough later in the day they noticed the mother sitting on her eggs. Such a nice story – hope the father finds her! The nursery is changing daily as prepare for big move so when I go to look for a certain tree I can’t find it. And then later in the day I find it in our island planting or tucked in the heal-in area. The yellow Magnolias look stunning – the pictures don’t do them justice. The Crab apples are all in bloom and the nursery is alive with colour. The Redbuds draw your to their neon pink blooms. If it wasn’t for my colleague Wayne – I would have missed our Red Delicious Apple tree covered in blooms. Last year the frost hit the blooms and we got no fruit – so hopefully this year we will be able to sample some. Here are are few samples of the hundreds of pictures I take…enjoy…

Red Delicious Apple Tree covered in blooms

Rows of Yellow Magnolias

Yellowbird Magnolia bloom

Yellow Magnolia Bloom

Columnar Crab Apple sin Bloom

Weeping Crab in Bloom

Ohio Buckeye Blooms

Rows of Ornamental Pears

Rows of Princeton Gold Yews

Red Purple Beech

Robin’s Nest

It happens so fast…

Posted on May 9, 2013 by paohorticultural.com

Just a couple of days ago everything was pushing bud and ready to pop. Now, a couple of days later it is all popping out. Take a look at the pictures below and see what happening. I have also included some pictures of what is happening as we prepare to move to our new digs. Thousands of trees have been moved – only twenty five thousand to go! It is hard to believe that the same time last year everything had finished blooming by now.

Espalier Pear in Bloom!

Japanese Maple starting to leaf out

Serviceberries in bloom and my dog enjoying the spring scents

Rows of Ornamental Pears in bloom

Japanese Maple ‘orange Dream’

Lilac Std ‘Miss Kim’

Redbud beginning to bloom

So much going on….

Posted on May 3, 2013 by paohorticultural.com

Everything always happens at once. Especially here and in the Spring. Everyday I come in here something else is blooming or some more leaves are coming out. We are digging hundreds of trees at the moment and moving them to our new location before they leaf out. People are calling and coming in anxious for our plants to be showing off a bit more spring growth. In the new age of technology I am constantly being asked to go out and take a picture of something so I can send it to them so they can see what it looks like before they come out. So I think that is going to be how I handle part of this blog. I am going to post some of the pictures of what people are asking for and also what is going on here at the farm. So stay tuned – as I am downloading pictures every day you might as well see what people are asking for…