Best listing of named cultivars with photos?
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Advice needed on best TTTF Cultivars and Spring vs Fall overseed
Comments (106)Well, I finally did it...overseeded the 10-month-old TTPR/KBG lawn with TTTF and KBG...and it worked! So it can be done...but read on to find out how I did it...I was quite careful due to what people on here had told me about the PR messing with the germination of other seed due to allelopathy. I did this a little over a month ago now. I actually prefer the lawn consisting of a mixture of these three species, guess I'm odd since no one else here seems to like that three-way mix). We're at ~4.5 weeks now. The existing PR thankfully did not prevent or delay germination of the new seed. The TTTF started to come up within 6 days, and was fully up in about 3 weeks time. The KBG just started coming up last week. Perhaps it wored so well because the PR was only 10 months old. Or b/c it got heat stressed. Or b/c I mowed it to ~1.8 inches before hand on the last mowing before starting the project. I also thinned the lawn fairly drastically prior to over seeding, by utilizing heavy core aeration (three passes) and also verticutting (two passes). I brought up a lot of dead and living grass in the process. I'm currently touching up the few spots that need it with a little extra seed. Here are some photos of the project (same area plus or minus a foot or two) at the various stages for reference (I do consider it a successful outcome even if it was my first time doing it and I learned a lot!): The top photo is the before photo, taken on 8/17/12. The middle photo is about ten days after overseeding, on 8/29/12. You can see the existing PR and KBG, and the TTTF was in the midst of germination, but is hard to see in the pic. And the bottom photo is from 9/21/12, taken right after the first mowing and application of starter fertilizer (I decided to hold off on the fertilizer until after germination so as to slow the growth of the existing grass to prevent it from overtaking the new grass. I'm glad I did this). Here is what I used for overseeding: -TTTF (approx 75% Firecracker LS and 25% Bullseye) -KBG (approx 33% each of America, Bewitched, and Rugby II) -A low amount of the existing TTPR seed blend (see below) was mixed with the fescue and KBG seed; I only used this in those areas that were really bare after the verticutting/raking. In this way, I created a uniform lawn in the bare spots that blended with the old grass. (The existing lawn prior to overseeding was a blend of KBG and three cultivars of TTPR sourced from from Allied Seed: ASP6005, ASP6002, and ASP 6001.)...See MoreWhat is the best male/cottonless Eastern Cottonwood cultivar?
Comments (12)Treeguy: You have my sympathy. I Love eastern cottonwoods also. It is amazing to me how so many people miss the glories of this tree--Have they no eyes to see with? No ears to hear with? I grew up in a house in NJ that had a huge cottonwood outside my window--the glories of this tree defy my powers of description. The sound: on hot summer nights with hardly a breeze stirring, the leaves of this tree on their specially constructed vertically flat petioles allowed those leases to flutter so gently in almost no breeze--what a wonderful sound--almost like a gentle rain in the trees! And sight: just look at one of these trees on a hot summer afternoon in the hazy distance, again in a slight breeze--the wonderful living shimmer of it all! Sit under one when there leaves are all in motion--now in some ways I am a child of the "sixties" (I was a little old at the time) and know a little about the psychedelic craze and the strobe lights and other kinds of visual things people experimented with. Well, there was nothing, and is nothing like the dancing light under a cotton wood when the breeze is right! I could go on and on. And these trees get a bad rap for being weak--not really true (I posted about this earlier in detail) and a short life--again, not really true. They can make 70 to 100 years, or even more. That can work for me. And I was interested to learn from salicaceae that my "noreaster" is a hybrid. I had noticed the smaller leaves but I did not take the clue. For the best effects the larger leaves really help. I got some cuttings from another cottonwood in my area, but now I am wondering if that was not also a hybrid. What a nuisance--more people need to open their eyes and ears to the glories of this kind of tree and make it available. AAARRrruugh! If I were you in the current situation of no male cultivar being available, make a point of identifying a male tree in your area and get cuttings. If you don't have one identified yet, next year do it, and get the cuttings the next. But it may be possible to root one after the leaves come out. If you want to do this, I can share my ideas about how it might be done--or I am sure you could come up with a couple of things to try. It may work well. Anyway, it is worth the wait if that is what you have to do to have the process of identifying and then cloning your tree. --Spruce...See MorePicea pungens 'RM' Cultivars: Asking For Photos
Comments (13)These brooms were all found in Red Mountain, Colorado (just outside of SouthPark, CO) by Jerry Morris and Rich Eyre. I don't know exactly how many there are but I have heard of the following. Most of these were all found in one or 2 days. They supposedly just picked an arbitary number to start with and went from there. Picea pungens 'RM 201' Picea pungens 'RM 203' Picea pungens 'RM 204' Picea pungens 'RM 205' Picea pungens 'RM 206 Choice' Picea pungens 'RM 208' Picea pungens 'RM 209' Picea pungens 'RM 210' Picea pungens 'RM 211' Picea pungens 'RM 212' Picea pungens 'RM 213' Picea pungens 'RM 216' Picea pungens 'RM 217' Picea pungens 'RM 218 Ladies Choice' Picea pungens 'RM 219 Prostrate' Picea pungens 'RM 222' Picea pungens 'RM 227' Picea pungens 'RM 228' Picea pungens 'RM 229' Picea pungens 'RM 230' Picea pungens 'RM 233' Picea pungens 'RM 236' Picea pungens 'RM 239' Picea pungens 'RM 240 Rich' Picea pungens 'RM 241' Picea pungens 'RM 242' Picea pungens 'RM 243' Picea pungens 'RM 245 Cone' Picea pungens 'RM 246' Picea pungens 'RM 247' Picea pungens 'RM 248' Picea pungens 'RM 249' Picea pungens 'RM 250 Special' I'll bet that makes things a bit more interesting....See MoreConifer Cultivar Photo Gallery Index, 2010
Comments (90)Whats just as impressive is that all the pics are still here! I was just thinking of the lack of activity and picture posts here after seeing other forums bumping with activity and picture posts...which by the way DON'T have a separate gallery. This forum was discriminated!...See Moreivysmom
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