Autumn leaves and chrysanthemums inspire broadcast from Portland Japanese Garden
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Chrysanthemums and autumn’s bold colors and will be the talk of the town on Saturday morning, October 17, when In the Garden with Mike Darcy hits the airwaves at 9 a.m. Tune into KXL Newsradio 750-AM to hear Mike Darcy broadcast his show from the Portland Japanese Garden, where Kiku Matsuri, the Chrysanthemum Festival, is taking place October 17-25.

Click here for a live stream broadcast of the show.

At 9:30, Mike will talk about trees and fall color with Nancy Buley, marketing director for J. Frank Schmidt & Son Co., wholesale tree growers of Boring, Oregon.

Nancy will advise listeners that there’s no better time to choose and plant trees that will brighten your garden view. Fall is a great time for planting, and a fine time to choose trees that offers up great fall color along with all the other reasons to plant trees.

Here’s a partial list of the trees to be featured In the Garden. You can also learn more about these trees by visiting your favorite garden center. J. Frank Schmidt & Son Co. serves a national customer base including these excellent garden centers that offer our trees to the local gardening community. Happy planting!


Ed Wood Maple

Oregon and SW Washington retailers

Name Location Phone
Al's Garden Center Woodburn 503-981-1245
Aspenridge Tree Farm Redmond 541-548-7512
Boring Bark & Landscape Boring, OR 503-668-3219
Boring Square Garden Center Boring, OR 503-663-9797
Chet's Garden and Pets Grants Pass 541-476-4424
Cornell Farms Portland 503-292-9895
Drake's 7 Dees Nursery Portland 503-256-2223
Farmington Gardens Beaverton 503-649-4568
Ferguson's Fragrant Nursery St. Paul 503-633-4585
Garland Nursery Corvallis 541-753-6601
Gray's Garden Center Springfield 541-747-2301
Greer Gardens Eugene 541-686-8266
Guentner's Gardens Salem 503-585-7133
Johnson Bros Greenhouse Eugene 541-484-1649
L & S Gardens La Pine 541-536-2049
Portland Nursery Portland 503-231-5050
Redmond Greenhouses Redmond 541-548-5418
Shorty's Nursery Vancouver, WA 360-892-7880
Tsugawa Nursery Woodland, WA 360-225-8750
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