Yesterday I started some veggie seeds - Delicata squash, Cool Breeze cucumbers, tomatoes, Territorial Seed's Mexican Strain tomatillos, etc. I took cool season flowers seeds (calendula, nigella, etc.) and planted them in flats which I then put in the greenhouse. (This greenhouse is a 8' x 4' affair, made of two panels of rigid wire fence paneling, bent and the ends anchored in the ground, then covered with plastic. It's large enough to stand up in, and has wood framed ends and a real hinged door. G made it, from an idea from our friend R of Seaberry Farm.) I also started petunias, etc. - warm season flowers which I'll keep on heat mats - with the veggie seeds - for awhile.
Today I took 20 evergreen huckleberry cuttings, and 8 Philadelphus lewisii, the native mock orange. Except for the Mexican mock orange (which also starts easily from cuttings), this is the mock orange that is the starting point for the cultivated cultivars, the basis for all the hybridizing work that's been done. It's a beautiful plant. Kruckberg (Gardening with Native Plants of the Pacific Northwest: An Illustrated Guide, by Arthur R. Kruckberg, University of WA Press, 1982) says it was introduced into Britain by David Douglas in 1825. I put these cuttings in the greenhouse for added humidity, some warmth.
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