The 2026 catalog is online and taking orders. Still a bunch to do (namely more/better photos) but the hard part is out of the way. Over 120 different products this year. Double the number of native plants and a wide selection of fruit and ornamental trees. www.zubaplants.com

"Seeds that germinate when exposed to light are called positively photoblastic" www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Seeds are sown

CLOSED For In person retail for the rest of the season. Online orders only

Meadow Blazing Star

"Buffalo officials largely ignored neighbors and violated state law in their rush to convert an abandoned community center near the Central Terminal into a training facility." www.investigativepost.org/2025/09/04/p...

In case you wanted some levity in your life this week. We made a low budget commercial with a butterfly www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVPN...

There is oppression in my neighborhood. Please share. I beg you. www.btpm.org/local/2025-0...

I grew it for the flowers, but I'm into the seedpods and foliage. (Rocky Mountain Penstemon)

Avant Garde

Canada produces more than 65% of the sphagnum peat moss used in the United States Imports of peat from Canada represent 97% of total United States imports and 85% of total Canadian production value of peat moss production in Canada is estimated at $337 million creneautourbe.ca/wp-content/u...

Service berries don't get enough love. People come in trying to buy blueberries. I like blueberries, but lets be real. Your soil PH is not 4.5-5.5 and you're probably not gonna throw down sulfur every year to keep that ph down. Just buy the service berry, but alas they keep asking for the blueberry.

True Inspiration.

Field trial of Spent Mushroom Substrate as a medium for ornamental container production. 100% SMS, 50/50, and 100% potting soil as a control.

Definitely putting rocky mountain penstemon back in the catalog.

This is mikado

Eastern Bluestar and Woodland Columbine

lol look at this lupine

Feeling some appreciation for the foliage on these roses.

Apple trees fruiting in the nursery

Hey buddy, what are you doing in the greenhouse?

Chives as a perennial border plant.

I heard you like mushrooms

How you know it's spring for real

Bowmans Root in 3 phases Mar 17 - April 20

Milkweed, Liatris, Bee Balm looking good too

Columbines are looking decent. Smaller than I'd like, but forecast for the greenhouse temps and growth look good over the next two weeks. Should pick up a bit.

How it started and how it's going

Couple of closeups from the greenhouse

Cherry trees are sold out.

Fruit trees came in and they are bigger than expected

I spend a lot of time thinking about germination. It takes 3-4 months for some of the stuff I grow. It's all super fickle. Simple temp shifts w/ us natives can wildly change the germination profile from year to year. There's 0-little info on why. Which makes me wonder a lot about climate change

Also, the Bowmans Root looking👌 My favorite plant and was a bit worried. Last year started germinating in the greenhouse w/out bottom heat. This year it needed 2 weeks on a a heat mat ~= 65-70F.

Germination w/ natives always all over the place. Digging the milkweed this year. Generally, really happy with how clean the plugs are looking. Had trays outside last year and ran into weed pressure w/ seed blowing onto the trays. Doing cold strat in the greenhouse this year def helped with that.

Climbing Roses are officially sold out! Def need more of those next year.

Bagging and Tagging orders to ship out.

Now that germination is mostly finished, It's time to start applying water soluble fertilizer (10-5-14). Starting off at .9 EC and probably finishing around 1.2 EC. The potting mix does have some nutrition. However, leaching and release timing can make ensuring proper growth a bit funky.

Germination is wrapping up decently. A few species didn't do great - Rudbeckia Hirta, Amsonia tabernaemontana, Eutrochium purpureum, and Asclepias speciosa (Germination went well but cold damaged after). Everything else seems to be doing well.

Rose Shrubs have arrived from Texas.

Starting germination with constant wattage heating cable and row cover.

I've been building a $12 time lapse nature camera. This was my first trial run.

Tiny seedlings growing in frozen soil. (Aster, Liatris, Lupine)

Great time of year to take Red Osier Dogwood Cuttings. You can often find them in wet areas along ditches, ponds, etc. I like that they don't require rooting hormone or much preparation. Will root in almost any substrate/soil. I also like that I can plant directly as live stakes.

I put together a collection of around 4,000 public domain nature poems. naturepoems.github.io (On mobile click the button in the top right)

I'm surprised by the amount of hostile sentiment on Blue Sky toward AI/Computer Vision By design BlueSky is a *free* data mining platform bankrolled by VC firms vested in 205 AI companies. They expect a ROI. What did folks think their BlueSky data was being used for? littlesis.org/oligrapher/1...

I'm excited for the new "Garden Packs" I'm adding into the online store. Better pricing for customers and should help provide a little bit of garden design guidance. 🌱🐦🐞 zubaplants.com/collections/...