2014 Pruning Q & A Section Co-Op
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Comments (16)I have grown two Deutzia, Nikko and Chardonnay Pearls. Yuki Snowflake is supposed to be an improved Nikko, with more flowers (I personally don't see how any more flowers would fit on my Nikko) and better form. I am happy with Nikko, but would have to see them side by side to see if I agree that it's an improvement. D. Chardonnay Pearls does have nice chartreusy spring foliage, but in its current spot of half day sun and then bright shade in my garden doesn't stay really bright all season, though it does stay less true green than many of the surrounding plants. It doesn't bloom quite as fully as Nikko. D. Cherry Blossom sounds nice, with same the same short stature and pink blossoms. Deutzia is in my opinion a one season shrub, with its full spring flowers, but is a small green blob the rest of the growing season and a fine-textured twiggy blob during winter. I am not sure if I would grow Deutzia if I had restricted space, but since that isn't an issue for me, it is a shrub I enjoy, is disease and insect free, and takes virtually no maintenance in my garden. It does suffer some tip dieback in years of less snow, so needs a bit of light pruning some years. I have grown several varieties of Sambucus, S. racemosa Sutherland Gold and S. nigra Black Lace, plus unnamed species plants of both. My Black Lace as well as both species have been healthy and trouble free in the two years I have had it. The jury is still out on Sutherland Gold. It came as a small mail order plant and isn't in an ideal spot, but it has survived so far in its two seasons in the yard. I have read that at least some of the yellow foliaged plants are somewhat less robust, but time will tell on mine. S. Lemon Lace is a new plant, so I think only folks who test plants will have grown it, but from reading it looks like it has a good chance to be a great plant. Here's S. Black Lace...See MoreBirds and other mobile features in the garden 2014 #6
Comments (76)Love to see the turkey poults growing, Claire. Great pictures. I am sort of following two parallel threads showing young turkeys, yours and a facebook thread of the organic farm where we buy our thanksgiving turkey every year. Theirs are a heritage breed, very close to the wild turkeys, and out on grass, as turkeys are meant to be (not scrunched up into tiny pens and fed GM corn). Both sets of photos make me happy! I think your moth may be a promethea moth, Pixie. Also I love your photo of the running fawn. Jane, your beautiful pictures of the rose breasted grosbeaks made me recall the huge flocks of evening grosbeaks we had long ago during an era where we fed the birds. Since I haven't seen any photos of these beautiful yellow birds on any of the threads, I looked them up and am very sad to see that their populations are in decline now. Since we had the house painted last fall, we have had no swallows build a nest on our porch as in past years. Perhaps next year... However a pair of tree swallows have raised a large brood in the birdhouse out in my orange garden. You can hear the chorus of loud chirping as you walk by! Here's one of the parent birds ready to deliver a meal to the little ones. They spend all day, every day, collecting bugs to feed the babies. I expect the small ones will be taking flight shortly and the parents will finally have a well earned rest! It makes me so delighted to have beneficial birds nesting in the house once again now that I have prevailed in my campaign to rid the area of HOSPs (English sparrows). PankajT, nice photo of the red-bellied woodpecker. Seeing these birds in New England is one of the least objectionable effects of climate change, much more welcome than influx of ticks for instance!...See MoreIs this cane dead? A visual guide for cold zone spring pruning
Comments (52)HI folks Sorry I've been off posting since last fall - I've missed you all. Partly I've been online so incredibly long hours teaching (university) that I haven't been able to stand being online any more than I have to be. Also, I had a devastating garden-wide bout with Rose Rosette Disease last fall and had to take out about 20 roses and prune ABSOLUTELY everything else to the ground to hope to avoid catastrophic rose disaster. I'll post separately about that, maybe this weekend. Suffice to say for 1000 roses several of which were 12' tall and 10 years old (owning their own dumpsters) this was an exhausting and demoralizing fall. To respond to folks in warmer zones that just got that bizarre freeze all the way to Texas, it doesn't hurt to wait a bit to prune. Dead canes don't cause the rose problems any more than long fingernails cause you problems beyond inconvenience, though if there is downy mildew spotting it's probably good to prune sooner than later. I try to wait till the rose starts leafing out and you can see what is alive at that point. Seil, no I'm not remotely pruning at this point - the post is several years old and was from mid to late March. We're still recovering from the snowiest January ever and one of the coldest Februaries ever. Thank heavens it was in that order! Under the snow it's always 32 degrees however cold the air gets, and we had easily two feet of snow (16" in one snowfall) protecting everything. It's just now starting to melt with temps this week into the 40's all week, but it'll be a long time till I'm out in the garden. Great tips about not pruning once-bloomers Seil. Fortunately those are among the roses that don't take any pruning at all and I almost never see winter damage. Occasionally I'll see a once bloomer shed a cane for some reason, but that can be pruned out after the spring bloom to avoid disrupting the other canes. For the first year ever since growing roses, i have absolutely no rose pruning to do this spring. Everything was pruned to the ground so it's a matter of seeing what resprouts from the ground, and anxiously checking for any signs of RRD and ruthlessly digging out. No second chances or wimping out. Glad this post is helpful! Cynthia...See MoreWhich model has more storage area in fridge section?
Comments (6)Buehl, I'm wondering if that's just when its in "flex" mode? Also, the Samsung also seems to have a near-zero-footprint icemaker which adds space. What sometimes counts is non-wasted space - even more than capacity. I need roomy space in both fridge and freezer, due to my having no need for a separate freezer. Nor do I have need of an icemaker - can't stand iced drinks. Trust me when I say that every aspect of my life is "different strokes than other folks". I currently have a 1997 Kenmore S.B.S. which is 25.2 cu.ft. and has more roominess than this-year's GE 25.4 S.B.S.! Basically, the old-fashioned Kenmore was designed with more storage space everywhere, due to its design (despite it also having an icemaker. You can sorta get an idea of my fridge from this smaller model except mine has a narrow compartment resting above icemaker: http://c.shld.net/rpx/i/s/i/spin/image/spin_prod_1088814212?hei=333&wid=333&op_sharpen=1 What I did, was made a "hack" in the form of 2 cheapo plastic baskets.. (First a long rectangular one, http://ind5.ccio.co/CD/8C/zC/414N1MHRg2L.jpg?iw=300 and on top of that, a square one).. Then used wires to connect the baskets to the shelf-guard of the narrow compartment that rests above the icemaker (where I barely fit 2-packs of margarine). Via my homemade cheapo-extension, in addition to said margarine I can now store (in both the rectangle & square basket sections) my four 3M-type pain-gel-paks, plus a lidded-thermal-mug wherein I sometimes freeze grapes or berries. By comparison, aside from its fewer shelves (both inside, and in the doors), you cannot do such hacks atop the latest GE side-by-side Ice-makers. Nothing to hook onto. It's ridiculous how few practical thingies there are inside the GE, and how much wasted space as well, such as the nonCantilever silly sliding-shelf abuttments being dirt collectors and wasting real-estate on inner walls. So why the GE is so popular, I can't fathom....See MoreLoveplants2 8b Virginia Beach, Virginia
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