Native Tree Nursery at SMU

At our Plant Sale on March 1st we had 4 species of native trees that were available bare root. To keep them healthy we have begun to pot them up into 2 gallon buckets. The buckets are half the price of nursery pots the same size. To make sure the buckets drain as well as pots we drilled holes in the bottom of the buckets.

A well planted Vine Maple Acer circinatum

 

 

The students mixed up soil for the trees and filled the buckets.

Some of the trees required the roots to be trimmed. The planting went well. We will be planting the remaining trees tomorrow March 7th. If you would like to plant some nice trees stop by at 10:00 A.M. The species we will be working with are Vine Maple, Grand Fir, Western Red Cedar, Douglas Firs.  

This amazing crew also removed the rest of the remaining Ivy roots

that we were trying to eradicate and then transplanted seedlings in the greenhouse. I somehow managed to not get a single photo of that work we were so busy 

Holding our flowering Tat soi from the greenhouse

Thank You to all the volunteers!