Main Street Trees

Native Trees headed for restoration of a wetlands

Main Street Trees — Sat, 19 May 2012 05:32:42 +0000

A lot of medium sized mixed riparian trees were very nicely wrapped for their trip to a restoration of a wetlands in Cobb.

Welcome Julian!

Main Street Trees — Fri, 18 May 2012 06:51:43 +0000

A big welcome to the new guy, Julian. We love having him here and he is great with the plants and animals. Julian fit right in and is a huge help with all the goings on here at Main Street Trees. He already knew a lot about native plants and picks up new things very fast. It is great having someone who fits in so well and can help us grow great trees.

A Lime Tree goes to a new home

Main Street Trees — Mon, 14 May 2012 06:05:03 +0000

Angel’s dwarf Bearss Lime Tree was too tall for her vehicle so she pushed it home 2 blocks from the nursery. I guess you’d call this buying locally!

Robert Young Bamboo – new canes

Main Street Trees — Fri, 11 May 2012 15:59:22 +0000

This month the new fresh cans are popping up on the Robert Young Bamboo. They are striped with yellows, greens and red wine colors. This is one of my favorite bamboos. The height will get to about 14 feet and the cane diameter is about an inch in diameter or more if your stand is happily fed. Some of the canes jog in a zig zag of about 6 inches called knees. This style of bamboo is in the runner category so it should be contained with a sturdy barrier or kept in a container. If you have a lot of space and do not mind, it will spread to a wide area but usually will not travel under pavement. Usually folks are glad they took the time to submerge a perimeter and then let it fill that area beautifully. The new canes coming up right now will be their final diameter and will grow 6 inches per day to their final height and then just get woodier, stronger over the next 5 years.

Heirloom Apples

Main Street Trees — Sat, 05 May 2012 23:52:22 +0000

Here in Napa at our suburban farm we grow apple trees. We have new varieties, common varieties and heirloom varieties. One of the oldest is probably Ashmead’s Kernal Apple from 1700. I’m sure it never won a beautiful fruit award but it is a high scorer in taste tests. Click to the apple page on the website to see our list including Gravenstein 1669, Waltana 1910, Golden Russet 1845, Bramley’s Seedling1813, Belle de Boskoop 1856, Northern Spy 1800. It is no wonder that the heirlooms have been preserved when you taste them. Worth growing because they taste great.

Clumping Bamboo

Main Street Trees — Fri, 04 May 2012 15:56:37 +0000

These large boxes of clumping bamboo can be planted to create a visual barrier and a sense of privacy. We can pull them out of the box for easier transporting. Clumping varieties usually don’t cause a problem spreading like runners can. We also have clumping bamboo in smaller sizes such as 15 gallon and in other cane shapes and colors.

Orange Trees

Main Street Trees — Thu, 03 May 2012 19:43:16 +0000

Gardeners who are spreading the fruit ripening over more of the year can have flowers on one tree and ripe fruit on another. These Trovita Oranges ripen in the spring and summer when the winter ripe varieties are in flowers. The fruit is great tasting and there are few seeds, thin skin and they are easy to grow. Even the peels can be used to flavor excellent beverages and foods especially if you avoid using pesticides that can collect in the skin oils. The trees can be grown as a shrub if winter covering is needed and that way the fruit is easy to reach. Oranges create year round beauty in your yard.

Orange Blossom Special

Main Street Trees — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 16:49:49 +0000

Orange Blossom Special is not only one of the most famous Bluegrass songs of all times but a good reminder of how fabulous it is to be walking by a citrus in bloom and get the sweet scent as a surprise gift.

Special Handling on the Acorns – New Oak Trees

Main Street Trees — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:56:19 +0000

We carefully collect acorns to grow up to sizes for people to purchase and plant so that they can have more oaks trees on their property. Acorns planted would do the job if those busy critters don’t munch your tree as a snack. The Quercus lobata or Valley Oak and the Quercus agrifolia or Coast Live Oak are both fairly fast growing oak trees. The Q. douglasii or Blue Oak though is slow growing. We have some that are crossed in nature with the Valley Oak and it is much faster growing (than straight Blue Oak) called Jolon Oak. It is CUTE!

Starting Fruit Trees – Most are Grafted

Main Street Trees — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:56:11 +0000

We all can graft our own trees and the local chapters of California Rare Fruit Growers will help you by making available way more varieties than you could ever need and will show you how to graft your own with several workshops per year. Here at Main Street Trees we offer some fruit trees that are grafted and some that are not. Some are of a large size and already had yummy fruit last year. If you are in a hurry for fruit you can buy a tree that already has a nice shape started and will probably have fruit this year. If you are not in a hurry, you can graft a branch onto a tree you have or start your own rootstock and make a fruit cocktail tree. Grow short trees or bushes and you can reach all the fruit without a ladder. Grow fruit close together through pruning have smaller plants and more variety of fruit to harvest over the year. More different varieties in smaller spaces can provide you with more food security. Fresh local food – your back yard!