Theriault's Buds & Blooms LLC

Theriault's Buds & Blooms LLC Home-based grower and seller of perennial and woody plants; breeder of Iris and Hemerocallis.
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The sunset was unusually colorful this evening. I actually had to pull over on the way home to grab a couple photos.
06/19/2026

The sunset was unusually colorful this evening. I actually had to pull over on the way home to grab a couple photos.

The first 263 seedlings from 2025 are in, comprising the first 16 of 64 crosses.
06/19/2026

The first 263 seedlings from 2025 are in, comprising the first 16 of 64 crosses.

Step 4: break up the near-concrete ground that the 2023 crop recently vacated and work in the light dressing of compost ...
06/18/2026

Step 4: break up the near-concrete ground that the 2023 crop recently vacated and work in the light dressing of compost I'd spread on Saturday. Next step: planting 2025 crop year seedlings.

Calla "lily," daylily, and then some true lilies.
06/16/2026

Calla "lily," daylily, and then some true lilies.

Last of the last...of the "beardies" for this bloom season.
06/16/2026

Last of the last...of the "beardies" for this bloom season.

The view this morning before that big ball of fire really turned up the juice.
06/16/2026

The view this morning before that big ball of fire really turned up the juice.

I have a name for the white Japanese iris, but not for the lavender number. Of the five or so ensatas I have, only two ...
06/14/2026

I have a name for the white Japanese iris, but not for the lavender number. Of the five or so ensatas I have, only two came to me labeled. The Hemerocallis is Strawberry Candy, a pretty reliable rebloomer.

An interesting tree, the pineapple guava (Acca sellowiana). Even here in the PacNW, the growing season isn't quite long...
06/14/2026

An interesting tree, the pineapple guava (Acca sellowiana). Even here in the PacNW, the growing season isn't quite long enough for the fruit to fully ripen, tending to top out at about half the size of a small lemon before dropping off in November, and tasting like soap. I just treat it as a flowering tree--the flowers are pretty neat. The dark green leaves with the fuzzy silvery undersides are neat, as well.

And finally...the "saves" all dug, clipped and cleaned, and relocated under a grove of Douglas firs (and one-odd Norway ...
06/14/2026

And finally...the "saves" all dug, clipped and cleaned, and relocated under a grove of Douglas firs (and one-odd Norway spruce) to wait for me to line out the 2025 seedlings before potting them. Of 849 seedlings planted two springs ago, I've reduced the number to somewhere around 125.

Debris was cleaned, and compost was scattered over the bed. Nutritionally, the ground is great...but it's way heavy and more than just a little challenging to dig when things dry out. Tilling comes next.

No photo from yesterday showing digging progress, since I dug until I couldn't see. Digging will be finished this morni...
06/13/2026

No photo from yesterday showing digging progress, since I dug until I couldn't see. Digging will be finished this morning, so I am still on schedule.

One noteworthy tidbit is that the degree of intensity of purple based fans/foliage varies greatly in those varieties that have it. I pitched a host of PBF bearing seedlings because the flowers were unremarkable at best, utterly ghastly at worst, in spite of having PBF to some degree. The "keepers" express the trait on a spectrum of sorts, from barely noticeable all the way up to something like the seedling shown here, where the pigment shows almost a third of the way up the fan.

This is seedling TB 23-53K (Catch the Fever X Handsome Devil). It's an eye catcher, even out of bloom.

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1007 Fairview Avenue SE
Salem, OR
97302

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+19713124758

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