Any good presents?

16 years ago

Anybody get any rare or unusual trees for Christmas? I'd be interested to hear. I got x 2 pinus x holfordiana, 1 pinus ayacahuite, 1 pinus armandii, 1 athrotaxis selaginoides and 1 taxodium ascendens so I'm chuffed.

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kim_dirtdigger
16 years ago
Nice haul ravendonkey, although I have to admit I'll have to look up a few of those!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and is continuing to enjoy the holiday season.

Mine was a perfect, coniferous Christmas! As my husband and I sat at the kitchen table Christmas morning (which we celebrated on Sunday because our daughters & their families were home) and dawn began to break, I started to see trees scattered all over the hillside where there were none the day before. They included a 15' Picea abies 'Pendula Major', a beautiful Tsuga diversifolia, a 6' Pinus leucodermis, a 6' Abies balsamea var. phanerolepsis, a 6' Pseudotsuga menziesii, and 2 6' Picea abies. My husband hauled 3 of these trees from a nursery about 100 miles away, and had them heeled in and hidden in a tree line behind our house and had been carrying buckets of water to some of them for a month! (He gets major brownie points this year!!) It was a balmy 45 degrees here yesterday, and we got 4 of them planted. What a perfect way to spend Christmas Day!

Best wishes to you all for a happy, healthy, and conifer-filled 2008!

Kim
Embothrium
16 years ago
Sounds like some of us are getting well-chosen gifts. I got pruners and a sharpener that looks like I may actually be able to use it (pruners wrong model but I'll just make an exchange). Not collector conifers but still garden-related.
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I bought my brother a coffee bean roaster plus a supply of green coffee beans, and I think he will enjoy this, as he likes his beans roasted a certain way (light or blond) and they are more difficult to find than dark roasted beans. We do not normally exchange gifts, but this year he was diagnosed with colon cancer (at age 53) and after his surgery, he now has to live with a colostomy bag. While he was in the hospital, a couple of his co-workers (friends) visited him, and one of them did grocery shopping for us, as I was recuperating from surgery at the same time. So I made some pillows for them with fabric that I got at work. I made one for my sister as well. The fabric is from 24" x 24" samples of fabric that is now discontinued, and so I got the samples for free, but if I had had to buy the fabric it would have been $144 to $175 a yard wholesale. I also made some chocolate Habanero hot sauce that one of his employees loves, and so she will be getting some of that in addition to the pillow. The chocolate Habanero chilies are very difficult to grow and they are impossible to find in stores (very occasionally at a farmers' market here), but they have a very distinctive smoky/earthy flavor that a lot of people (including me) love. I grill the chilies over wood/charcoal to intensify the smoky flavor. Anyway, the sauce is rather labor-intensive to make, considering I have to grow the chilies, but I still feel like I'm being cheap when I give it as a gift since it costs me very little to make, other than my time. I put zippers in the pillows I made, and that was the biggest pain in making those. I've given pillows to people before who did not appreciate them - one person wanted liquor instead. One year that our family had Secret Santa, I got my BIL's name, and I made him a really nice heavy knit nightshirt, but my sister stole it from him.
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hbflair
16 years ago
Santa showed up with two Wollemi Nobilis. They were about 15" wide X 15" Tall. The foliage was a deep green with four inches of lime green new growth. I am excited about the future look of this tree!
Embothrium
16 years ago
Santa really gets around.
Pamchesbay
16 years ago
Kim: Your husband is a keeper, but you know that. You'll never forget those surprise trees, nor the time and energy he expended to keep them healthy for you.

To all the conifer lovers on this forum - I'd like to thank you for your generosity and patience, and wish you a happy and healthy new year. ~ Pam
conifers
16 years ago
Salute... bottoms up!

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