potting up seedlings, natives like silver buffaloberry (Shepherdia argentea), wolf willow (Elaeagnus commutata), a collection of currants and gooseberries. experimenting with container nursery, most of the plants are in pots and plug trays for this year.. last year I would have them all in the ground, but I think for some species a pot works better.. and I can ship them in the fall, basically can't do that with bare root here on the Canadian prairies, when the leaves drop and it snows the next day. #backyardnursery

wolf willow, a native shrub with blue green leaves. a nitrogen fixing, non invasive alternative to some of the other notorious suspects in this genus. here I've cold stratified the seeds for three months from jan though march, and then are about two months from planting, our greenhouse gets frost at night though april so the cold oscillation can help finish off the cold conditioning to get the seeds to germinate.

wolf willow seeds almost ripe. they get soft and them the inside goes powdery, seeds turn dark brown.

wolf willow, Elaeagnus commutata from locally collected seed