u/Mikes_metalworking

I went to Crowfoot Nursery today to purchase a coastal redwood, of a blue variety today. Ended up going with Simpson Silver and Steel Blue

10/10 experience, it’s run by a lovely older couple whose passion for trees is evident in the quality of the saplings as well as when they talk about the trees they’re growing.

They also have the most extensive and coolest collection of conifer cultivars I’ve ever seen! Maybe a dozen different types of coastal redwood as well as giant sequoias! There’s a lot of cool atlas cedars, spruces pines and Douglas fir cultivars as well.

The prices are fantastic and if you’re local, by calling ahead you can schedule to visit the nursery in person to pick out your tree and get a good visual example of how mature specimens will look.

https://www.crowfootnursery.com

You guys need to check this place out!! Coolest selection of trees I’ve ever seen!

Purchased a Simpson Silver coastal redwood cultivar (and a few others redwood cultivars!) from a place called Crowfoot Nursery located in Sandy Oregon. https://www.crowfootnursery.com

Best experience buying plants I’ve ever had in my entire life!
A husband and wife team runs the business and are growing dozens upon dozens of exotic conifer cultivars focusing mostly on redwoods!
They’ve got 10+ coastal redwood, giant sequoia, atlas cedar, and spruce varieties of cultivars on hand for each species and a couple more too!

Not being paid to advertise or anything, they’re a really nice couple and grow some amazing trees and I’d love to help them spread these wonderful cultivars out to the world.
If you’re local to Portland I’d definitely recommend giving them a call to stop by and visit the shop in person. They do online orders as well for anyone not local.

Best wishes!

I purchased this eastern red cedar from Jonsteen and the foliage is a surprising silvery blue color! I’m wondering if it’s a cultivar and if it is, what kind?

When I look up pictures of these trees in their native environment they have a normal green color compared to this little fella. I live in a suburb of Portland OR, and it seems to really like the climate almost doubling in height this growing season.

I’ve got a couple grams of Monterey Cypress, I recently found out that the Willamette Valley where I’m located, isn’t a great place to grow these trees because of cypress canker.

Looks like these trees need to be planted along the coast and not inland even if the USDA hardiness rating says it would be ok.

Anyone on the Cali, or Oregon coast feel free to shoot me a message. I’ll send these for free if you can cover shipping!

Got them from Sheffields Seeds first week of June.

Edit: Monterey Cypress from California not Mexico, typo,

Monterey Cypress, was growing amazing until this weekend.

I live in the Willamette Valley region of Oregon and we had a nasty heat wave over the weekend. Temperatures were around 100F for a few days and the tips of a fe w needles on the Monterey Cypress turned brown from heat exposure presumably.

I was reading about cypress canker and I’m worried I may have planted the tree in the wrong climate despite it being well within the USDA hardiness rating for the region.

My aunt has land on the Oregon coast, and I was wondering if I should dig this little guy out of the ground and transplant it before it gets any bigger?

Thanks