Nursery | Large Trees – Tight Spaces

Boxwood Sprial – Nice bright green

Japanese Maple buds coming along!

Japanese Maples

The evergreens starting to come out cold storage

Blue Spruce – Still a nice blue colour

Beech Trees – Still looking winterish

Lilac Std -The buds are there

More stock coming out

Specimen Spruce

Pine Topiary – Looking good

More stock slowly starting to come out

You will notice him throughout the season

My dog enjoying the dry field!

Redbud in bloom

I dunno where you live in southern Ontario but this past week has not been spring like it all. It can be sunny one minute and then a blizzard the next. Like literally – snow squalls! But enough about the stupid weather – we our starting our Spring regardless. We are moving plant material out of the poly houses All the Japanese Maples have been moved out as well as all the large boxwood and pine topiaries. It is still cold and blustery out there and it is funny to see the machines hauling trees in what looks like a snow storm and poof – it is sunny again. It is happening here again today sun and snow. Some of the fields are still too muddy to get into but as soon as we can, we will get into them and start snapping pictures. I have been viewing other nursery sites and they have pictures of plants in full bloom – but we do reality here – so you see things as we get them and as they come into bloom. Here is a few pictures of what is starting to happen here…

Last year (2012) at this time on this day March 22 – it was 24 degrees Celsius and sunny. I was wearing short sleeves and outside soaking up the much needed sun and snapping pictures of the ever changing landscape here. This year (2013) – March 22 – it is 2 degrees Celsius and overcast with the occasional sun popping out – which I guess is better than the past week with snow flurries and grey days. I have not been taking pictures cause everything is covered with snow and it has been windy to boot. Who wants to trudge outside in that? Having said that the sun has come out and I stepped out to take some pictures of the nursery as the snow slowly fades away. It is cold and windy and the only one who enjoyed it was my dog! Spring is in the trees – the buds are there – just waiting to pop. I couldn’t get into the fields as they are frozen and snowy. However – it will change soon and then all of a sudden we will be a bustle of activity. There will be alot of changing around here this year and it makes me kind of sad – which was I haven’t been blogging lately (that and the internet was down for a week). We are moving our nursery this Spring which will make for lots of impromptu sales and liquidation offerings as well as getting our new facility under way – which will be exciting. We will sell, move, transplant over 30,000 trees – which to my knowledge has never been done. And this is exciting – cause I don’t know how we are going to do it! But as with everything here at PAO we manage to get the job done. The crews are out planting some 20 foot pines today and the phones have started to ring – so here we go…..