Friday, June 18, 2010

Visit us at Hillsboro Farmer's Markets

This year is our very first year bringing our plants out to local farmer's markets here in Hillsboro. We've been going out to both the downtown Hillsboro and the Orenco Station markets and our plants have gotten a lot of interest from marketgoers. And the downtown market is just five minutes from our nursery... How much more local can you get?


Magda at our very first market date in downtown Hillsboro on a rainy spring morning.


What do we bring? We take mostly smaller items such as dwarf conifers and smaller maples, but we also usually bring out a few larger trees - whatever is showing some color and seasonal interest. We have some smaller evergreens such as variegated euonymus, a few blooming perennials like siberian irises, daylilies, or threadleaf coreopsis, and plenty of maples.


Japanese maples and dwarf conifers make up the bulk of the plants we bring to market. Blooming daylilies, flowering kousa dogwoods, and weeping goldechain add touches of color on a beautiful summer morning.


Our best sellers are our 1 gallon Japanese maples, which are only $10 each. We have many different varieties of these, so there's always something for everyone, whether they prefer the unique growth habit of 'Shishigashira,' the "Lion's Head" maple, the variegated leaves of 'Butterfly,' the deep purple of varieties like 'Trompenberg,' 'Red Emperor,' or 'Whitney Red,' or the small and spreading weeping laceleaf maples.

We've practically sold out of our 1 gallon Eskimo Sunset sycamore maples, whose variegated pink leaves stop people in their tracks (we still have plenty in larger sizes).

Marketgoers also love our fullmoon maples, especially the 'Autumn Moon' with its bright blend of yellows, oranges, and pinks.


Natalia at our booth in downtown Hillsboro on a sunny Saturday.



We only have a couple more market dates scheduled for now: We'll be at the downtown Hillsboro market on Saturday, June 26 (market hours are 8:00 to 1:30) and the Orenco Station market on Sunday, June 27 (market open from 10:00 to 2:00). If you've got some time and you're in the area, come out and visit us.

Click here for more information about Hillsboro's Farmers' Markets.

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