We are all predated in life by someone, or something. My nursery is not an original idea in anyway, in fact it was always my dream to recreate a classic British alpine nursery, where I could walk slowly through the raised brick beds, in a tweed jacket, perhaps with an unlit briar held in my palm contemplatively with my other hand behind my back and pontificate about the difficulties of propagating Eritrichium in such a cold damp, winter wet climate. So before me in the Northwest was a fantastic rock garden and alpine plant nursery run by an enthusiastic retired couple, young for their years, called Wild Ginger Farms. I’m proud and honored to keep some of their plants in cultivation. Before them was Mt. Tahoma and before or I guess during that time a bit as well was Grand Ridge, and so on and so on it goes. Anyway, Wild Ginger found a fantastic Bush Monkey Flower selection in the Coastal mountains of Southern Oregon they named ‘Firewalker’. I am proud to keep it going here and since monkeyflowers are my jam, this is a no brainer, it’s a NW native, hardy and tough here in Western Oregon, dynamite flowers and small enough for any rock garden. What else is there to need?
We are all predated in life by someone, or something. My nursery is not an original idea in anyway, in fact it was always my dream to recreate a classic British alpine nursery, where I could walk slowly through the raised brick beds, in a tweed jacket, perhaps with an unlit briar held in my palm contemplatively with my other hand behind my back and pontificate about the difficulties of propagating Eritrichium in such a cold damp, winter wet climate. So before me in the Northwest was a fantastic rock garden and alpine plant nursery run by an enthusiastic retired couple, young for their years, called Wild Ginger Farms. I’m proud and honored to keep some of their plants in cultivation. Before them was Mt. Tahoma and before or I guess during that time a bit as well was Grand Ridge, and so on and so on it goes. Anyway, Wild Ginger found a fantastic Bush Monkey Flower selection in the Coastal mountains of Southern Oregon they named ‘Firewalker’. I am proud to keep it going here and since monkeyflowers are my jam, this is a no brainer, it’s a NW native, hardy and tough here in Western Oregon, dynamite flowers and small enough for any rock garden. What else is there to need?
