Geneva, NY Sequoiadendron
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Comments (2)Thanks for the reminder, milehigh. Cummins was actually my next email stop, since I haven't heard anything from my fellow orchardists on this obviously obscure variety and I haven't had a return of my email to the WSU program that seems to be the only online source of information on NY486....See MoreBuffalo, NY Southern Magnolia update
Comments (31)March 9, 2009 - Update I checked all magnolias - all except for Edith Bogue have burn on their leaves. The burn is not severe, however the winter has been colder and windier than normal. My magnolias normally lose leaves in the spring when new growth begins so I am not too concerned with springtime leaf dropping. The trees have burlap screens on the side where the Sun would normally shine on them in the afternoon and the burlap is on the side that the winds normally come from. I gently "wiggled" random buds on all Magnolias. A stiff rigid bud indicates winter kill and possible die back. All buds that I tested were flexible indicating that they survived to this point. I have done this last year so I am confident that they have survived the worst of this winter....See MoreSequoiadendron giganteum "Pendulum" from seed???
Comments (11)It will take time to tell, and honestly, I doubt any will show the trait, but no reason not to be hopeful, and growing a tree from seed is always a good endevour. There are different levels of apical dominance in different weepers, where some would grow straight along the ground without training, others slowly swoop this way and that, but generally head upwards, while still others grow straight as an arrow, with weeping side branches. This post was edited by unprofessional on Mon, Apr 28, 14 at 7:21...See MoreGiant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron) in Mid Atlantic
Comments (7)This has come up before, several times, but, at least it gave Resin another opportunity to reuse his favorite (only?) joke about North American placenames. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. Guess what? Ely is not literally Ely. I mean, sure there are some out in the sea, but that's true anywhere around the coast of the British Isles. The eels aren't ordering drinks at the local pubs and serving as tourist guides. Yet. They grow best in zn 6 or 5b areas where nights are cooler. Even one at Planting FIelds Arboretum, on maritime influenced Long Island, looked like complete cr-p after the past 3 hot summers. I have a picture but I don't have time to post it. The one at Longwood looks ok but heck, it's Longwood, maybe they spray the thing each year with $2500 of double distilled neem oil or something similarly outlandish to prevent disease. They have an endowment of more than a half billion dollars so they can afford to keep their trees looking perfect. There are a couple others in Philly area that look OK, that's about the southern limit AFAIK. I think the best looking ones on the east coast are probably in upstate NY, New England, etc. Has to be a place w/summer nights Fortunately there's probably a fairly consistent border with the region in which the hardiest clones of Sequoia semprevirens can be grown, with some gaps of course. South of Philly, east of perhaps Harper's Ferry, WV (the "front range" of VA&MD), or along the coast up to Long Island, try S.s., otherwise S.g. NB the existing so-called hardier S.s. like 'Chapel Hill', which withstood -10F in NC, are not known to be selected from the coldest valleys where it grows. The current zn 10/9 parts of its range might have been zn 8/7 during the ice age. My research indicates 'Swarthmore Hardy' is probably 'Chapel Hill'. This post was edited by davidrt28 on Sat, Jun 15, 13 at 20:30...See MoreSmivies (Ontario - 5b)
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