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Id tree with blue berries...better pics?
Comments (9)Hi Susan, I suspect it must have very tiny flowers when it blooms because I have never noticed the tree in bloom at all - and I'm the type who is always excited to see which of my plants is blooming each day. Do you have any guesses as to what month I should look for them, with berries this size in late Oct-early Nov? Maybe June or July? Thanks, Erin...See MoreChinese white ash, resistant to emerald ash borer?
Comments (17)the peeps who interpreted what i meant to say were correct ... additionally though... of all the diversity out there.. why do you want to bang your head on the brick wall called ash ... just before EAB came along.. in 2000 .... i invested in 6 autumn purple ash at 40$ each ... and spent ten years watching them grow wonderfully .... i just finished removing the last of them last spring .. nothing more disappointing than watching your investment.. and emotional attachment die to the vermin ... and also had some other conservation dist. ash [in other words.. green and white] and they succumbed before the other ... contrary to claims that one version was bug proof .... so i asked... why.. why.. why????? you cant find anything other than an ash or an oak???? heck.. i would plant a maple before i would plant an ash ... and i hate maple.. lol ... perhaps a new post on what we would recommend beyond ash.. would give you a multitude of ideas other than ash ... since you have so many oaks .... on the other hand.. if you are talking about investing a few bucks.. and are the experimenting type.. and have no qualms about chainsawing them when the bug hits.. go for it .... which as a farm owner you probably are.. as compared to those who get all emotionally attached to the plant babes, and who have a coronary killing a bug infested tree ....... what the heck ... worse thing that happens is you find out an ash is an ash ..... and EAB is indiscriminate .... good luck ken ps: as an aside.. is it possible that it could be against the law to plant ash.. since so many states are destroying them????? i know its a crime to cross state lines with cut ash.. could it be a crime to plant????...See MoreBerries for birds
Comments (52)I agree that Kevin has the most perfect approach. However in my case I can see myself getting arrested if I even tried to cut down or back any invasives on public property. The Nature Preserve that I was talking about has a big sign prohibiting digging, cutting, or otherwise tampering with any plants on the preserve. Even if they didn't the amount of Porcelian Berry is staggering. While the Preserve is mostly deep woods with nice wide hiking trails there is one section were it opens up into a large sunny clearing. I mean about a half acre. And what do you think is 90% of that clearing? Yes, its all Porcelian Berry. That was all here before I moved into my house and the Porcelian Berry has always sprouted in any disturbed ground around the yard and the neighborhood. So I have no guilt over planting my less vigorious Varigated Porcelian Berry in my yard. As far as cutting down the Japanese Honeysuckle that grows around some of the shrubs in the park, anyone trying to cut them would have the police called on them for defacing public property. I have never seen berries on them, just flowers but who knows. I didn't even know what to do with my mistakenly bought invasive Adult English Ivey until I found a nice grove of it climing trees in the very same park accross the street. It seems to be in that area, on those trees but not elsewhere. So I planted my little shrub....See MoreLooking for Pink Pagoda Mountain Ash
Comments (37)Garden centers here have sold all kinds of plants I never see anywhere from my car, on foot or in local collections. And nothing gets on the general market in a big way that isn't picked up by at least one wholesale company, bulked up sufficiently and sent to numbers of garden centers and other retailers. Plus even among those that are given this level of prevalence at least for a few years only a percentage become standard items, that are seen repeatedly for long periods of time. For one thing a plant has to appeal to popular taste, and stay in favor in order to remain on the everyday market. If it doesn't sell well, and quickly, it soon gets dropped by walk-in retailers. For instance when I worked as a buyer for a garden center I ordered the Coral Fire mountain ash from Monrovia. It stiffed, because just about everybody that came in looking for mountain ash wanted instead the same orange-berried Sorbus aucuparia (a weed in my region) that they were seeing around already. The plants we had were even in fruit, yet, nope it had to the familiar orange one. With the result that the actually much more special Coral Fire ended up being discounted, and certainly was not going to be replaced - once it was finally gotten rid of. Even retailers selling mail order or on the web, seeming to be oriented more to plant nuts still need the stuff to sell in a timely manner. Otherwise it (sometimes) gets given away, more often marked down or (probably most often) thrown out. It is one of the few Sorbus that does well in the humid summers of Southeastern Pennsylvania. says to me a built-in resistance to Sorbus is likely to be present in the regional market - both among producers and consumers - which could have prevented the Longwood introduction from becoming a lasting commercial success there. In other words I don't think apparent or perceived scarcity as a product automatically demonstrates lack of garden suitability....See MoreJane_23
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