Digger magazine

Serving the Northwest Nursery Industry for Over 50 Years

  • Farwest-50th-banner-DM.com-728x90-1.jpg
  • NGW-728x90-v2.png
  • Digger-Employment_banner-2020-728x90px.jpg
  • NG-Survey-banner-728x90-1.jpg
  • Home
  • Articles
    • Nursery News
    • Features
    • Plants
    • Growing Knowledge
    • Operations
    • Nursery Country
  • Issues
  • Events
  • Farwest
  • Columns
    • Director’s Desk
    • Mike Darcy
    • Pivot Points
    • President’s Message
  • Employment Classifieds
  • Advertise
  • Subscribe to Digger
You are here: Home / Archives for Perennials

Unsung perennials

By Tracy Ilene Miller — Posted February 22, 2022

A treasure trove of options is available for those who want to go beyond the staples Thousands of books are written about them, as are poems, and there are even songs sung about the flowers we know as perennials. Perennials are the backbone of most garden designs and some container gardens, as well. Consumers adore […]

Filed Under: Plant Features Tagged With: Digger, Digger magazine, Perennials, plant features

Reblooming is booming

By Kym Pokorny — Posted July 29, 2020

Consumers are drawn to new annuals, perennials and shrubs offering easy, continuous interest When many consumers approach a garden designer or visit a garden center, they know two things for sure: They want low maintenance, and they want color from spring till fall. “I’m looking for successive bloom,” said Jenna Bayer, owner of Jenna Bayer Garden […]

Filed Under: Plant Features Tagged With: annuals, Digger, Digger magazine, Perennials, plant features

Visions of white

By Tracy Ilene Miller — Posted March 27, 2020

These white-blooming plants brighten up landscapes Part 1 of 2: This month: Perennials, groundcovers, bulbs, vines, edibles and Hydrangeas. June: Woody trees and shrubs. Blooms come in all variations of color and hue, but there is a special place for white blooms in a garden or landscape. “White goes with everything,” said Justin Hancock, senior director […]

Filed Under: Plant Features Tagged With: annuals, Digger, Digger magazine, Perennials, Plants

March 2020

By Bill Goloski — Posted March 3, 2020

Take a look at the next wave of annual, perennial, and woody favorites breeders and growers are introducing to the marketplace, and copy down some notes from our valuable column on plant patent and copyright protections. Growers will also benefit from tips for detecting boxwood blight symptoms in the field. In this issue: The next […]

Filed Under: Issues Tagged With: boxwood blight, Digger, Digger magazine, Marketing, OAN, Perennials, Plants

Beauty from the ground up

By Tracy Ilene Miller — Posted September 4, 2019

These bulbs offer great color and fragrance with disease resistance, and some are native to boot When gardeners, landscapers and restoration managers look to buy bulbs, they’re finding exceptional and versatile material that meets their design goals and gardening aspirations. Breeders and growers are providing an outstanding selection of commercial bulbs, including tulips, daffodils, corms, […]

Filed Under: Plant Features Tagged With: Digger, Digger magazine, Perennials, Plants, Wholesale Nurseries

A perennial favorite

By Tracy Ilene Miller — Posted June 25, 2018

Traditional and new Agastache varieties offer beauty, fragrance and other endearing qualities If not for agastache’s manifold attractive qualities, growers and landscapers may have given up on this sun-loving flowering perennial long ago for its finicky and sometimes sprawling growth habit. Agastache has endured as a garden favorite with growers and landscapers because it checks […]

Filed Under: Plant Features Tagged With: Agastache, Business, Digger, Digger magazine, Home gardening, OAN, OAN Members, Perennials, Plants

Small, tall and packed together

By Dawn Hummel — Posted March 27, 2018

The trend toward smaller spaces drives intensive use of perennials and grasses The midcentury ranch house with the huge yard is a thing of the past. Replacing it is the tall house with a small yard — and that’s changing the shape of home landscaping. Everywhere across the country, homebuilders are squeezing as many new homes […]

Filed Under: Plant Features Tagged With: Digger, Digger magazine, Grasses, Home gardening, Landscaping, Perennials, Plants

New USDA zone map released

By Curt Kipp — Posted January 31, 2012

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has released its first new climate zone map in more than new decades. The new 2012 map, downloadable here (various other versions here), replaces the previous map published in 1990. According to USA Today, the new map is much more localized — in fact, it’s accurate down to one-half mile. […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Climate Change, Landscaping, Native Plants, Oregon State University, Perennials, Retail Nurseries, Science, Trees, USDA, Weather, Wholesale Nurseries

Phormiums are pheatured in December Digger

By Curt Kipp — Posted December 6, 2011

Wonderful, colorful phormiums are the featured plant in the December issue of Digger, which has been mailed to subscribers. You can also read it in our new flipbook format or read articles individually as PDFs: Flax appeal (PDF) — These phormium selections offer interesting structure and dazzling colors Deep Roots (PDF) — Anderson Die and […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Digger magazine, Meta, Operations, Oregon State University, Perennials, Pests and Diseases, Plants

New Varieties Showcase award winners shine

By Curt Kipp — Posted September 1, 2011

Picking the very best plants displayed in the 2011 New Varieties Showcase at the Farwest Show was a tough task falling to no single group. Show judges handed out the official awards, while show attendees voted separately on the People’s Choice awards. As things turned out, however, the two groups agreed more often than not. […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Edibles, Farwest, Farwest Show, Landscaping, Perennials, Plants, Propagation, Retail Nurseries, Trees

  • 1
  • 2
  • Next Page »

NURSERY NEWS

Hall of Famers give gift towards horticultural industry advocacy

Verl Holden retires from Oregon Garden Foundation Board

Fall Creek promotes Dave Daniel to general manager for U.S. and Canada

NWFCS, Farm Credit West create new association

Bailey Nurseries announces leadership transition

More Nursery News

FARWEST SHOW UPDATES

Secure your 2023 Farwest hotel room and save

Farwest Show to celebrate 50th anniversary in 2023

Nursery professionals connect at Farwest

These 12 products had buyers buzzing at Farwest

Nightfall Snowbell sweeps top honors in Farwest New Varieties Showcase

More Updates from Farwest

From the pages of Digger

March 2023: Water Outlook 2023

February 2023: Greenhouse Issue ’23

January 2023: The Retail Issue

December 2022: Oregon is Nursery Country

November 2022: Transportation and Logistics

More issues of Digger

The Value of Membership

OAN Member Profile: Oregon Flowers Inc. 

These 12 products had buyers buzzing at Farwest

Creating the future generation of nursery leaders

More member stories

CORONAVIRUS COVERAGE

Virtual is the new reality – for now

Trade shows in the time of COVID

A demand ‘renaissance’ for nurseries

Western Nursery & Landscape Association falls victim to pandemic

MANTS 2021 to move online due to COVID-19

More articles

Nursery Guide LIVE

Nursery Guide LIVE clicks into place

Booth spaces still available for Nursery Guide LIVE March 17–18

Nursery Guide LIVE virtual marketplace postponed due to winter storm damage

Keynote presentations at Nursery Guide LIVE virtual marketplace provide insight on green industry trends in 2021 and beyond

More Posts from this Category

​

Updates to exisiting subscriptions can be sent to info@oan.org

News

  • Nursery News
  • Growing Knowledge
  • Nursery Operations

Features

  • Plant Features
  • OAN Members
  • Oregon Nursery Country

Columns

  • Director’s Desk
  • Mike Darcy
  • Pivot Points
  • President’s Message

Resources

  • OAN Home Page
  • Job Listings
  • Subscribe to Digger
  • Advertise in Digger
  • Online Plant Search

© Copyright 2022 Oregon Association of Nurseries · Admin