Oregon. Ok, that is somewhere out to the west, says she, waving her arm over in that general direction.
The other day I was checking out YouTube, pondering whether it would be a possible direction in which to expand. You know, adding videos of important gardening topics to my business website like . . . well, important stuff. Lo and behold, my business name of Just the Gardener was already taken! What? Why? How? Seems that a boy named Isaac from Oregon was posting some Lego videos he had made under the same name. If you have a mind, go and check them out – pretty clever!
Those of you who know me are probably questioning why I would even think of making videos. Ha! ha! Momentary lapse of sanity, I assure you. Anyways, there are plenty of pretty good gardening videos on YouTube – and some pretty bad ones too – so I decided to save myself from going down that route.
Back to Oregon. My friends at Oriental Garden Supply tell me that they make buying trips out there. I know that Al has some terrific stuff so maybe it’s the climate. Apparently, Oregon has two climatic regions separated by the Cascade Mountains. The Cascades serve to block the warm, moist winds coming from the Pacific Ocean and cause relatively heavy precipitation and moderate temperatures in the western part. The eastern part has relatively little precipitation and more extreme temperatures. I’m going to guess that the western part is home to some great nurseries.
I’ve never been there, but it would seem like a great place to visit – Crater Lake,
Mount Hood,
the Pacific Coast,
. . . and the nurseries! Have any of you been there?
