South Dakota Spring

harv2016

10 years ago

Seeing all the great pictures made me want to post a few of my spring garden. What a difference a year can make. Last year it was already hot and dry. This year a wet cool, long spring

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Cher
10 years ago
Everything looks lovely there. Spring is being good to your gardens. That first photo is really fantastic.
Cher
dietzjm
10 years ago
Very nice pictures, Harv. Things are looking great!
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keefesn1
10 years ago
Beautiful. What is the variegated maple in your second picture, carnival?
whaas_5a
10 years ago
Nice, hope to see more!

Thats a Norway isn't it?lol
sprucebud
10 years ago
A beautiful garden.
Richard
gardener365
10 years ago
Glorious Harv.

Dax
alley_cat_gw_7b
10 years ago
Real nice!.....surely theres more!!!!
harv2016
Original Author
10 years ago
There's lots more, it's gotten to be a real addiction, thanks in a large part to Coenosium Gardens. I'll try and get a few pics this afternoon again, playing hooky from work. That is a varigated maple in the pic not sure of the cultivar. Beautiful tree but it all ready has a few small branches reverting to green, not sure what a perrson can do about that?
maple_grove_gw
10 years ago
Hi Harv,

You must prune off the reverting branches on your maple. They'll grow more vigorously than the variegated branches, and it's best to cut them off as soon as possible. I have to do this every year on my A. campestre 'Carnival'.

You have such a lovely garden! It's a treat to see your large specimens, and everything works together so nicely. I look forward to seeing more.

Alex
tsugajunkie z5 SE WI ♱
10 years ago
Thanks for the pix, Harv. Look forward to seeing more.

tj
ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
10 years ago
how did i miss this???

sublime...

had you not titled the other post #2... i may never have gone searching for this one ...

ken
arceesmith
10 years ago
Very nice! How many years have you been building this garden? You have some nice old specimens there! What Zone are you?
taxo_man
10 years ago
Everything looks great. Well done.
Jeff

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