Rainier Cherry

With the coinciding rise of the local-food movement and a greater social consciousness of sustainability motivating backyard gardeners to repurpose landscape spaces to provide crops as well as beauty, the demand for "edible ornamentals" is increasing.  Eagerly anticipated, our 'Stella,' 'Bing' and 'Rainier' Cherry trees will arrive on the newly-patented Zaiger Dwarf (3CR178) rootstock.  This is a true-dwarf stock which will make these lovely trees practical for the urban gardener.  Suitable for container plantings or edible landscaping, they will reach only 8-12 feet un-pruned, and bear at a young age.  For spring bloom, this is certainly one of the most attractive small utility trees.  Another fruit-producer with ornamental qualities is the Weeping 'Santa Rosa' Plum, which maintains a smaller profile in the yard due to its structural training, but puts on a beautiful flower display followed by dusky reddish-purple fruit. 
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Winter is, above all, a time of reflection and rejuvenation, for gardens and their keepers.  It is a time of human reconnection with each other, and in some way, with the earth.  It is a season which has a power to bend us, ever so gently, to its will-to pace us. In his musings on the world around us, author and journalist Hal Borland wrote that, "To see a hillside white with dogwood bloom is to know a particular ecstasy of beauty, but to walk the gray Winter woods and find the buds which will resurrect that beauty in another May is to partake of continuity."  And that continuity, we believe, is precisely what makes gardening essential to a rich, vibrant life. From all of us at Magnolia, best wishes for another beautiful year in the Northstate!