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Meet the leader: Sam Pohlschneider

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What is your background? Worked on the family grass seed farm growing up. Graduated from Oregon State University with a degree in agriculture. Interned at Bailey Nursery in Yamhill, Oregon, in the summer of 1996. After graduating from OSU, went to work at Marion Ag Service as a crop adviser for 4 years. Then, went […]

New Phytophthora pathogen — not P. ramorum — found on two nurseries

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A soilborne plant pathogen not previously seen in the United States — Phytophthora austrocedri — has been detected at two Oregon nurseries and has infested an unknown number of plants. The detections have prompted an aggressive quarantine of some of the plant material on both operations as growers and authorities strive to identify infested areas and contain the pathogen’s […]

Blooming Nursery being sold to employees

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Blooming Nursery in Cornelius, Oregon, is being purchased by its employees through an employee stock ownership program, or ESOP, owner Grace Dinsdale said. Dinsdale, who founded the 42-acre wholesale nursery in 1982, said she’s been thinking about how to conduct a transition for years. She’s just been looking for the right way to do it. […]

Oregon nurseries see little impact from Plant Hardiness Zone Map changes

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s updated Plant Hardiness Zone Map that reflects an increase of about 2.5 degrees in the conterminous U.S. won’t affect nurseries as it would home gardeners. “This could mean that those areas that shifted could potentially grow plants that are slightly less cold hardy than they previously thought,” said John Keller, […]