permaculture

[Loren Davidson <loren@farwalker.com>]

At 12:39 PM 10/31/02 -0700, Kelly Finigan wrote:

> PS I just remembered another two favourite pretty plants of mine...the
> Saskatoon / Serviceberry / Shadblow (Amelanchier species) - bushes with nice
> white flowers, yummy bluish berries that people and birds love...and the
> lupine - insectary and nitrogen fixer...apparently there is a variety that
> is not toxic (I think Oregon Exotics nursery may sell the seed)...

Last time I checked, their Website was mostly offline and their phone was 
being answered by another company.  This was close to a year ago; they may 
have gotten stuff back together by now.

A really excellent alternative for many western US species (including about 
a dozen varieties of serviceberry) is ForestFarm - 
www.forestfarm.com.  Their catalog is the size of a large paperback book - 
5.5x8.5 inches, 485 pages for the fall 2002 catalog - with at least a 
paragraph on each species they carry.  I've ordered from them twice; all my 
plants arrived in good shape both times, despite one shipment being packed 
in its big box upside down.  They're in a disease-free part of Oregon, so 
they have very few shipping restrictions.

Build soil,

Loren


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