She is about 30 years old and stands out from the rest of the trees because of her beautiful silver blue color. Quality seed trees like this one provide the seed for our superior Christmas trees. O ur cones are usually harvested about the first of September. Here Bev Willey is picking the cones off another one of our quality seed trees. This is one of our late budding trees with a beautiful silver green color.
H arvesting seed is a tedious job.
Here Ken Willey is doing the first of many steps by breaking apart the dried cones. The brackets, which make up the cone, will be discarded. Note the cones drying in the warm sun. T he next step in the process is planting the harvested seed. Continue on the journey to Seed and Transplant Bed .