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2016 GREENWOOD RETAIL REFERENCE Greenwood finds, breeds and grows regionally superior plant varieties for California landscape professionals and helps them create successful plant combinations. WHAT MAKES A GREAT CALIFORNIA LANDSCAPE PLANT? 1. Durable Performance: The plant must thrive from San Diego and San Bernardino to San Jose, Sacramento and Redding. 2. Installation Flexibility: It must be able to be shipped and installed any day of the year, tolerate unskilled handling, and survive sitting on asphalt for a week waiting to be planted. 3. Low Maintenance: It should thrive not just with care by horticulturists and native plant experts, but by contractor crews and inexperienced “garden janitors”. 2016 GREENWOOD RETAIL REFERENCE PLAN TO VISIT Greenwood is located in Somis, an agricultural community between Moorpark and Camarillo. We’re a 55 minute drive from downtown Pasadena or Los Angeles, 45 minutes from The Getty, and 75 minutes from Long Beach. See the map on page 43 for plenty of interesting (and tasty) destinations nearby. OPEN HOUSE DAYS: We are only open to the public on Saturdays, April through June, from 9:30am to 4:00pm. Plants are available for instant gratification, later shipment or pickup. Prepaid orders can be picked up year round. See page 42 for a mail order form. LANDSCAPE AND NURSERY PROFESSIONALS are welcome year round by appointment. Please contact us for availability, delivery arrangements and trade pricing. From century-old specimen trees to annual color and bulk compost, landscape and nursery professionals can find it all in the Somis area. Boething, Berylwood, Baron Brothers and Performance may be familiar, but try Ventura County, Hartley Botanica, Valley Growers or dozens more when you visit us. Valley Crest, Norman’s, Moon Mountain and LaVerne are just over the hill in Heritage Valley. TOUR BUSES AND GROUP TOURS: Garden club and group tours are welcome by advance arrangement. Lunch and lectures at the hilltop garden are available. Page 2 © GREENWOOD DAYLILY GARDENS, INC. 8000 Balcom Canyon Road, Somis, CA 93066 (562) 494-8944 Fax (562) 494-0486 www.greenwoodgarden.com 2016 GREENWOOD RETAIL REFERENCE GREENWOOD AND THE ENVIRONMENT Can Agriculture and the Environment Coexist? We think so. At Greenwood we feel privileged to work among such a bounty of natural amenities, and that we should seek opportunities to benefit the environment as well as ways to avoid environmental damage. On hillsides too steep for nursery production we grow certified organic avocados. Pest regulations have kept the nursery from going 100% organic, but we keep moving towards that goal. The locals like this approach: so far, we’ve documented 56 bird species and 34 California native plant types (some planted by us) on the property. There are also a dozen mammal species (including California Long-Tailed Weasel) and at least a dozen different reptiles. Water - We use no imported water; only rain and ground- water, working with land contours and mulch to minimize runoff and maximize percolation. In the past, runoff from uphill farms and roads gushed through our fields, causing heavy erosion and downstream pollution. Over the years, we have been reorienting our nursery beds to slow runoff and allow our plants to remove pollutants. When finished, the nursery beds should be able to slow and clean about one million gallons per rain event, resulting in higher quality groundwater and cleaner streams. Runoff accumulates in a low area to be cleaned by Hemerocallis ‘Elves’ (front), cannas and cattails. Reuse and Recycle - A visit to Greenwood reveals many ways that we reuse potential trash, including used lumber and scrapped vehicles. All 1-, 5-, and 15-gallon plastic containers were picked up from customers’ landscape projects for reuse. Of course, we recycle the usual discards (our refuse service even recycles broken nursery cans.) Every year, local stables and tree services bring us thousands of tons of waste that we sort and compost for nursery mix and mulch. Visitor Koen Tufenkian helps John explain composting. Pollinators - Our beekeeper keeps hundreds of hives here each winter. Pollen from our nursery plants helps the bees build strength for their trip to the almond orchards. Then they come back and pollinate our avocado blooms. Since we don’t spray orchard weeds, our crew can selectively “weedwhack”, avoiding lupines, butterfly weed, clover and other bee-friendly plants. This benefits native pollinators and butterflies as well as the beehives. Page 3 © GREENWOOD DAYLILY GARDENS, INC. 8000 Balcom Canyon Road, Somis, CA 93066 (562) 494-8944 Fax (562) 494-0486 www.greenwoodgarden.com 2016 GREENWOOD RETAIL REFERENCE GREENWOOD PLANT INTRODUCTIONS/CALIFORNIA DEBUTS: With a Landscape Architecture degree and decades of landscape design/build experience, John Schoustra founded Greenwood to grow the best daylily varieties for California. Over time he sought out other plants that “performed like daylilies,” evaluating thousands of varieties until the few that best met the needs of California landscape professionals could be selected and propagated. Here are John's selections: Daylilies: Also: Black Eyed Sun Rosy VistaTM Canna ‘Chocolate Inferno’ PPAF demiTM Salmon Polar VistaTM Clivia ‘Ember’ PPAF and ‘Mega Mango’ demiTM Sunshine Dusky Rouge Iris ‘Great Grandma’s Purple Flag’ Frankly Scarlett (2003 All-American) Pelargonium ‘Burgundy Lady’, ‘Dark Nebula’, Lavenderr VistaTM (2007 All-American) ‘My Valentine’, ‘Pink Fringe Party’, ‘Punch’, Lemonn VistaTM (2013 All-American) ‘Queen of Hearts’, ‘Queen of Orange’, and ‘White Lady’ Salvia ‘Love Child’ New Pelargoniums for 2016! This year we present 3 significant steps forward in pelargonium breeding by Jay Kapac, a local but internationally known hybridizer. Although many of his pelargoniums have sold by the millions throughout the world, these 3 are especially bred for California gardens. All are drought and heat tolerant, with far longer bloom periods than their predecessors. ‘Queen of Hearts’ and ‘Queen of Orange’ are the first new varieties in the Unique Pelargonium category in decades and ‘My Valentine’ starts blooming at least 2 months earlier than most Regal Pelargoniums. Pelargonium ‘Queen of Hearts’ PPAF Pelargonium ‘Queen of Orange’ PPAF Pelargonium ‘My Valentine’ PPAF Like Lewis Carrols’ Queen of Hearts, This queen is clothed in irresistible Most Martha Washington/ Regal Pel- this plant rules with feverish intensity, velvety two toned orange/salmon argoniums bloom from April - June, clothed in velvety black and red blooms blooms. Growth habit is more formal making them the classic Mothers’ from February to December. Soft, than ‘Queen of Hearts’, giving the Day flower. ‘My Valentine’ starts in slightly cascading gray-green foliage is impression of an 18” diameter parsley February, with deep pink/ cerise so vigorous that you may want to cut it shrub covered in blooms. blooms held just above tidy dark back hard twice per year. Unauthorized propagation prohibited green foliage. Blooms continue Unauthorized propagation prohibited. through Summer and Fall. Unauthorized propagation prohibited. Page 4 © GREENWOOD DAYLILY GARDENS, INC. 8000 Balcom Canyon Road, Somis, CA 93066 (562) 494-8944 Fax (562) 494-0486 www.greenwoodgarden.com 2016 GREENWOOD RETAIL REFERENCE GREENWOOD’S SHRUBS: LILAC, SAGE AND ROSE Salvia (Sage) ‘Love Child’ We consider the fragrance of Cleveland sage leaves and the fragrance of orange blossoms to be part of the essence of California. The Somis hills are home to Salvia leucophylla, which has beautiful 8 ft. tall silvery foliage setting off bright pink blooms, but the foliage fragrance is not exciting. Thankfully a bee arranged a tryst between the two sages in our garden. The resulting ‘Love Child’ is a great garden plant 2-3 ft. tall by 3 ft. wide with the unmistakable fragrance of Cleveland Sage and the pink flowers of Salvia leucophylla. 1g $12.00 5g $25.00 Syringa (Lilac) ‘Snowy’ Beach Party™ For years, Californians had little success with lilacs. Growing them is not the problem since lilacs are as tough as their closest relatives, the privets (ligustrum.) Lilacs tolerate heavy clay, high pH soils and under or over- watering. Getting lilacs to bloom in areas with mild winters is the challenge, since most require a substantial winter chill. The few varieties that will bloom for us (like ‘Lavender Lady’) produce disappointing flowers or Rosa ‘Incendio’ fragrance. Dense, glossy dark green foliage makes Incendio an ‘Lavender Lady’ is a parent of our introduction, excellent ground cover. The incandescent display of 2-inch ‘Snowy’ Beach PartyTM. Unlike Mom, ‘Snowy’ Beach blooms in shades of apricot, orange and red makes it a PartyTM produces large clusters of intensely fragrant white stunning accent or mass planting. Spent blooms drop blooms in gardens from Laguna, Huntington and cleanly. Can be pruned with hedge trimmers. Great near Long Beach to Malibu, Ventura and beyond. The original the coast. Avoid planting in soils with high salt content or 12 ft. tall plant is growing in the half shade of an avocado pH to avoid foliage chlorosis. tree, where it never freezes. It grows equally well in Ohio, Deep 4” $10.00 5g $20.00 where they appreciate the mildew resistant foliage and powerfully fragrant bloom clusters. For best bloom, plant ‘Snowy’ Beach PartyTM where the low winter sun won’t beat down on the crown of the plant. Plant it on the north side of a garage, fence or evergreen shrub, or just place a rock, flower pot or garden furniture to cast a shadow on the crown. 4” $10.00 1g $15.00 5g $35.00 15g $115.00 Page 5 © GREENWOOD DAYLILY GARDENS, INC. 8000 Balcom Canyon Road, Somis, CA 93066 (562) 494-8944 Fax (562) 494-0486 www.greenwoodgarden.com 2016 GREENWOOD RETAIL REFERENCE AGAPANTHUS Agapanthus are rightfully some of the most popular (some say too popular) perennials in California landscapes. Native to South Africa, they thrive in our climate, producing mass bloom displays with little water or care.
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