Weather or not – we are moving the trees out…

Posted on April 5, 2013 by paohorticultural.com

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…

Fall Sale Preview..

Posted on August 28, 2012 by paohorticultural.com

Well it is still summer and it is still hot but the evenings are getting shorter and fall is around the corner. Here at PAO we are getting ready for annual Fall sale. The farm looks great and we have gotten rid of a lot of product. We drove around the farm this morning and started to choose items for the fall feature promotion. We have ordered the tent and the chairs and balloons! What is a sale without balloons? While on the drive through the farm I noticed the highbush cranberry still red with ripe fruit. Some of the burning bushes are starting to turn a few red leaves and some maples as well. Pretty soon it will be a riot of colour here and action too – everybody will be getting into the fall season. Here are a few of the items we will be putting on sale..

Shademaster Locust

Sunburst Locust

Skyline Locust

Deborah Maple

Emerald Lustre Maple

Emerald Queen Columnar Maple

Baby Blue Eyes Blue Spruce

Redmond Linden

Blue False Cypress

Sargenti Crabapple

Ornmental Pear

Crimson King Maple

The Highest Trees in Toronto!!!

Posted on May 4, 2012 by paohorticultural.com

We have been busy! We were in downtown Toronto hoisting 26 of our large Hornbeam Trees up 66 floors to the top of the new (under construction) Shangri-La Hotel. That was scary going up the side of the building in the construction elevator! The trees weren’t scared though! They came up via the fastest crane that I have seen yet. These trees will have the pleasure of growing right along side a view of the CN Tower. But almost beside the top of it. The Globe and Mail were there to take pictures check it out on their website – “The best pictures in the last 24 hours”. As well as the pictures below! We had a new load of Norway Spruce and White Pine come in – nice big specimens. Talk about instant garden! There are some pictures listed below of the installation – and I hope to get back on site today to view the finished landscape. But from the pictures you can see the effect of providing and instant screen. We will be starting to receive our shipments from the west coast where they have experienced alot of rain – so the product is looking extremely lush and green, it shall be arriving next week. Some of our unique perennial selections and ground covers will be starting to arrive today and within the next couple of days. I will keep you updated with photos as they come in. On a personal note – I have a pet peeve. If you live in suburbia as I do – you know that backyards can be in close proximity. And of course you can’t pick your neighbours. I like our neighbours – they are nice people. But we like to entertain on our deck in the yard. And when you come out our back doors to go onto the deck you get the a glimpse of our neighbours yard. They have planted a toilet. Yes people – a toilet. A real toilet. With plants coming out if it. Let’s just say – I am not amused. Please don’t think about this idea as a landscape feature – it is not.