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@ Glaswegian. Looking at your second picture, I have a couple of comments about your planted tree. 1) A newly planted tree should never need so many ties to the stakes. One should be lots and it usually is not needed. the lowest rope is never needed. You want the tree to move a bit in the wind to strengthen it's roots. 2) You have had the tree for a year now - it is time to take all ties off. 3) From the picture it looks as if the tree is still in burlap. this should be removed at planting time. At this point, I would dig down to see if any roots have come out of teh burlap. I would not expect this to be the case. if there are no roots outside the burlap, I would dig the tree up again, remove burlap and any wire, and replant the tee. This should be done in either spring or fall. 4) I see a cone of soil/burlap around the trunk of the tree. This is not a good thing. the tree should be planted so that soil is flat around the tree. the depth should be even with the point at which roots start to flar out from the tree. A lot of times this is below the soil level when a tree is put in pots.

Peanut butter tree in this region will be the Clerodendrum. It is a west-side item that will not survive the winters in Cashmere - even over here the coldest winters - such as the one in 1990 - kill them back. Here the main problem with the locust may be branch breakage, which can be sudden and severe on small examples. But there are numbers of it planted that have been around long enough to be more than 30 ft. high. Otherwise the common way to get moisture-loving trees to grow east of the mountains is to plant them on a heavily irrigated lawn. In addition to moist root zones specimens so located also enjoy the humidity produced by all the evaporation of water from the turf, which is very poor at shading the ground due to it being such a short layer of vegetation (when photographed from high altitudes grasslands appear as bare, brown dirt). Winter cold you can do nothing about except wrapping or enclosing each specimen in insulating materials every time it is going to be too cold for them. As with the watering issue it would be a lot easier to choose trees adapted to your existing conditions. As you can see from the native trees and shrubs growing on nearby undeveloped lands it is possible to have an assortment of woody ornamentals on a dry climate site without pouring on the water. In addition to those species native to the area there is the large pool of those coming from similar conditions elsewhere in the world to draw from. For ideas of other candidates you may like to visit and explore the Finch Arboretum in Spokane and the Yakima Area Arboretum in Yakima. Or at least look to see if either of these have online information about what trees and shrubs are in their collections or have become features there. These are conventional watered plantings made in lawns, for the most part. If you do some searching on the web there are also some publicly accessible demonstration gardens and plantings on that side of the mountains that may be of interest, including ones closer to home - in Wenatchee for instance. Another resource is the S. Searles book Garden of Joy. Used copies are offered online. This is about gardening in the inter-mountain region, shows that there is quite an assortment of decorative garden plants that are suited to planting within it. Otherwise you might like to find your Sunset Climate Zone in the Gardening section of the Sunset Publishing web site and then look at the plant descriptions there, to see what they indicate is suitable for your Zone. Or pick up a copy of the Sunset Western Garden Book. This post was edited by bboy on Thu, Dec 11, 14 at 12:58

i think it is heavily temp related .... e.g. related to a hard frost of freeze overnight ... which i presume sara doenst quite get .... regardless ... it nice to have a tree ... that doesnt require raking under for 2 or 3 weeks ... bam.. down ... bam.. cleaned up ... bam.. lol ... ken