Spoken much too soon.

"I like the cold weather, it means you get work done" 

Noam Chomsky

I think I spoke about the return of the sun much too soon, This so far one of the most consistently cold starts to march I've seen in awhile. I'll be monitoring for frost damage as this is the most vulnerable time. Things are in growth and pushing hard, but we have had some really low temps. 

Queens own Gardener John Anderson was in Salem, and drew a great crowd. The talk was wonderful, covering a fair bit of ground, but with a fairly intense focus, on some of the more unusual trees and woody species he has grown throughout his career. Props to the Salem HPS for getting such a great speaker to come free of charge. Wish that I would have had some flats of flower bulbs for sale at this one!

The JJA Crassifolia group I grow are starting in well despite the incessant cold

These have been shown on here for years, but I do need to point out that if you give space to the single bulbs to grow on to large mature size, the size of the blossoms definitely increase and they can produce up to 5 flowers per single bulbs, maybe more?

The cold has stuck around as evidenced by the snow still lining the greenhouse.

Oregon Myrtle wood on Oregon Ash, I think one would be hard pressed to find a better combination to create a stunning guitar then those two woods.

It's my take on a Garry Oak Leaf, Seems fitting with my home environment, Predominately oak woodlands can be found in any direction you walk from illahe. It fit nicely onto the Gabon Ebony truss rod cover. Boy if I had a penny for everyone of those leaves I've raked up in my life, I'd be richer then Kylie Jenner.

The guitar project continues despite the cold, I thought the warm sun eluded to earlier was going to stick around, instead we had the lowest temperatures of the entire winter hit the first week of March. That's never good for a gardener. Had quite a few flower heads bending over with the 22 degree temps in the greenhouse, despite a solid covering of frost blankets. Most things look to be on the bounce back, but it's been awful chilly at night and it snowed most of today.

Cheers ,
Mark