Added on April 25th, 2018
Cashman Nursery has a wide variety of new cultivars
that we are bringing in for the 2018 season!
Many newly developed plants are bred to have improved disease resistance or a better growth habit that make them excellent substitutions to the industry standards we are all more familiar with.
We have carefully selecte...
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Added on April 24th, 2018
Deciduous Trees
Common Name
Scientific Name
Image
Burr Oak
Quercus macrocarpa
Ohio Buckeye
Aesculus glabra
“Flame” Amur Maple
Acer ginnala
‘Sensation’ Boxelder
Acer negundo
Amur Cherry
Prunus maackii
Saskatoon Serviceberry
Amelanchier alnifolia
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Added on March 24th, 2018
For a quick overview, see the comparison chart/table below »
Care and Planting
Plant the graft (the bulge near the union of root and top) at soil level. Leave a depression around the tree for a watering well. Frequent watering (once or twice a week depending upon conditions) is necessary the first few years (and the...
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Added on March 23rd, 2018
Many small fruits can be grown in the Bozeman area. Although a small planting area may suffice, it should be an area that receives a lot of sun. Care must be taken to select varieties of fruits which are hardy in this climate and adapted to our soil type. All fruiting plants need generous quantities of water to produce...
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Asparagus is my favorite vegetable. I learned to love it when, as a child, I harvested ‘wild’ asparagus with my mother behind our house near a railroad tracks. The asparagus there wasn’t native, but probably remnants of an old patch or it grew there from seeds dropped by birds. Asparagus is native to the coastal ...
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Fruit trees are a beautiful addition to your ornamental and edible landscape. Growing fruit trees can also be a rewarding hobby. Hardy varieties of apple, apricot, cherry, pear, plum, and plum-cherry trees do well in Southwest Montana. We carry select varieties for our high altitude and ...
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Added on February 5th, 2018
The latest National Geographic magazine had an article entitled “Why Birds Matter”. Birds do matter. But don't trees also matter in much the same way? Like birds, trees are essential to our environment and beautiful to look at.
Trees are valuable for our well-being. They absorb carbon dioxide and provide oxygen ...
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Added on February 5th, 2018
Every year, during their October meeting, members of the Gallatin Garden Club report on “What Worked and What Didn’t Work” in their gardens.
How our gardens turn out in a given year is, to a large part, dependent on our weather. A quick recap---After a cold January and early February, we had above average temp...
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Added on December 17th, 2017
By now, if you were going to plant spring-flowering bulbs in your garden, you have completed that task. But to brighten up the indoors throughout our long winters, many of us like to "force" colorful (red, pink or white) amaryllis and fragrant paperwhite narcissus bulbs.
Amaryllis and paperwhites will not survive ou...
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The showy shrub around town blooming now full of huge, round, white flowers is hyrangea. Most of the hydrangeas around here have white flowers but plant breeders have been working on new hydrangea varieties that are hardy with bigger, more colorful blossoms and a longer bloom time. Since the year 2000, 90 new hydrangea...
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