Our new shipment has arrived with some beautiful trees and shrubs.  We received 5′ Hollies that are gorgeous.  Some beautiful Tri-colour Beech 15′ – 18′ tall – 3″ Caliper.  Some 20′ Dawykii Purple Beech and some Red Obleisk as well.  The Boxwood Spirals are 54″ tall and so green and lush.  We also received Some beautiful Columnar Pine – perfect for those tight places.  And lots of Japanese Maple have arrived with more on the way.  The Japanese Bloodgood Trees look so good people were buying them right of the truck without them being untied.  We got some Acer palmatum dissectum ‘Emporer’ that are lovely as well.  We also received some specimen Pinus sylvestris topiaries in different shapes and sizes.  The lower yard looks beautiful with all the new colour as compared to fields that are emptying and weedy.  I took some pictures of  plants that arrived but they don’t do the trees any justice, I guess the sun isn’t right.  I will take some more in the morning when the light is Better.  Here are the pictures to wet your appetite.

Emporer Japanese Maples

Sculpted Pine Topiary

Tri-colour Beech in the background. Some Endless Summer Hydrangeas in bloom.

Japanese Bloodgood Maples with the Purple Beech in the background

Japanese Bloodgood Maple

My blogging has dwindled lately but with all that is going with the yard being moved and all the planting it is a lot to keep up with.  Our nursery looks so sad with all the trees being moved – we are 70% done.  The fields are all weeds and holes.  Sadly, there are casualties, damaged root balls, and death of trees that are dug at the wrong time.  There is also the issue of drought when the trees have been dug and placed on top of the ground waiting to get to the nursery.  There have been losses and many of them but we move on.  It is really overwhelming that there is so much to do.  There is still all the statuary to move and the potted plant material and the office.  I don’t think we will make our deadline but it certainly hasn’t been for lack of effort.  We have been working 7 days a week since March at least 12 hour days.

On a happier note the new nursery looks great and finally becoming a reality.  We have our first shipment from Oregon arriving n Monday which is exciting.  Lot’s of Japanese Maples, large Boxwood Spirals, Hornbeams and Beech trees and more.  We are all ready to order our second load but holding on until we see what happens with the move.  But I will post pictures of the new product once it arrives.

This is where are Crimson King Maples were. Notice the Crab Apples dug up on the side.

This is where the Princeton Gold Maples once stood.

This where the Serviceberries were

Norway Maples ready for the new nursery.

Trees lined up along the roadway for pick up

Maples and Gingkos ready for the new nursery

Weeds and holes

Wagon Loads of Trees to be moved

Ivory Silk Lilacs just planted in at the new nursery

Beginning to take shape – there are our Princetons!

Another row complete

On my walkabouts the last couple of days I was able to finally take some pictures of flowers.  The sun hasn’t been out and the pictures are kind of gray but it least it is a glimpse of colour.  The pictures don’t do the colours justice.  The bright green of the new leaves coming out just isn’t captured.  There is a picture of the green maple leaves that are just so bright it drew my eye.  I noticed the Crab-apple blooms are ready to pop and there should lots of pink out there next week.  With everything moving around here I found another bunch of Magnolias with bright pink buds.  Our trees are beginning pile up in various parts of the yard and we should start moving them next week.  Right now it is dig, dig, dig.  I noticed some of our Japanese maples took a beating this winter as well as some of our yews but I know we aren’t the only ones.  The baby robins are doing well – I took a picture but stood far away ad zoomed in but you can’t really see them.  I also put a picture in about 10′ – 12′ white Cedars, we are getting a lot of calls regarding privacy issues, so I thought I throw in a picture.

Lilac Flower

Espalier Apple

Weeping Peashrub

Beech Leaves

Serviceberry Tree Form

Ornamental Pear

Baby Robins

Rain is good.  It is good for the plants and it greens the grass.  But for us – it makes muck.  And it makes for machines to get stuck in that muck. And it makes my white dog Monty brown and smelling like wet dog.  Eeewh.  But things are blooming and spring is trying to come out.  The trees are about 3 weeks behind.  I was tagging a Weeping Nootka Cypress tree with a customer the other day and as I was putting the ribbon on we spotted a nest with beautiful blue eggs in it.  They have since hatched but I have yet to get a picture of the babies…momma bird is a little protective.   The digging goes on and next week we start planting.  Looks like a lot of the Maples have been dug.  We dug a large 60 foot Beech tree the other day (I have yet to download the pictures), and trucked it down the road to our new location.  It is always remarkable to see those big trees in the air. The Magnolias are blooming now and I have started documenting the move…here are a few pictures from last week and I will get some more downloaded from this week.

Robin’s Eggs in the Weeping Nootka Cypress

Freshly dug Freemannii Maples

Paperbark Maples freshly dug and ready to be moved

Rows of Magnolias ready to be moved

Another view of Magnolias

Leonard Messel magnoia

The bright yellow plumage of the Weeping Willow

And the digging continues