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Comments (1)hi ralph .... i dont think anyone here is going to be excited with your reliance on the leylands ... the upside of fast.. simply has too many negatives ... but you could use some.. but dont plant them altogether ... no use spending 10 years to grow a screen.. only to have the whole die.. whereas between the thuja.. if one thing dies.. the others remain ... i would hope you could find something outside of the leyland family.. but also outside the thuja.. since you have a lot of those.. though they are rather bulletproof ... maybe another cyrpto or two ... the norway spruce is a telephone pole tree ... it will be a monster in a couple decades .... i would NOT plant one.. without at least an acre or two .... perhaps you wont be around to worry about it in 20 years.. whatever ... on this one: Cupressus nootkatensis .. look for the pendula ... and finally.. you said: I currently have a few eastern red cedars near 50' and would prefer that most trees don't tip out that high for posterity. ==>> as you are noting.. conifers are trees... and they really NEVER stop growing ... its all about annual growth.. and how fast they grow skywards.. per year ... nothing magically stops growing at some given height ... so something that grow 3 feet per year.. will be 30 feet in 10 years ... where as one foot per year.. 10 feet ... with screening.. its maddening.. because you want it screened yesterday .... but you dont want it 100 feet tomorrow.. what a wicked game we play ... see link for tutorial on growth rates.. and more ... good luck ken Here is a link that might be useful: also look for the link for coniferbase ... and figure out how that works.. to MAYBE get info on various cultivar names .......See MoreSevere weather - check in please!
Comments (36)Sorry to have worried everyone! We've had only rain and some wind...nothing significant... so I never thought to check in with everyone. There was a tornado (a rarity) viewed by friends last night at rush hour about 20 miles north of here, but I don't think it touched down. The kids and new baby are doing fine! Everyone settling in to their new roles, and baby Melanie is only waking up once per night, so MOm here feels quite human! I'll try to post pictures soon. Thanks for worrying about me!!!...See MoreWed's Severe Weather Check-In Thread
Comments (53)Glad to hear everybody is ok. We spent Wed. Night in the cellar. Here in SW OKC we received over 10" of rain and multiple tornado threats. We spent over 5 hours in the cellar and crawled out to find a river running in front of our house and as far north as I could see!! I think the flooding scared me more than the tornadoes. My daughter and grandson (he's 3 1/2 ) were here and she stayed overnight because she couldn't get home because of the flooding. I am ready to say enough is enough. Our house sits on a hillside to no water in the house, donkeys were in the barn, dogs in the cellar, so all are ok. I am dreading Friday and Saturday, I guess we will be back in the cellar, I just hope the rain is light....See MoreMemorial Day Severe Weather Check-In Thread
Comments (24)Amy, We were laughing about that same sort of issue the other day. Usually, we are dry and the clay contracts and we have a hard time getting doors to shut and lock properly. Tim is always having to make little adjustments to the hinges and locks to keep them working well. Beginning with last summer's and autumn's rainfalls, the clay expanded and the house was more or less back to normal and everything was working. Now, with continual rainfall for months on end, the constantly expanding clay has the doors getting harder to close again, but in an opposite way from when the problem is caused by contracting clay. You have to laugh about it or it would make a person crazy. We spend most of our time either extremely dry or extremely wet, and precious little of it "just right". I hope drier weather is coming. At our house, we how are just a smidgen under 35" of rainfall for this calendar year. Our mesonet station is about 4" behind us, but even so, it has almost a year's worth itself. Normal or average rainfall for us is 34" based on all the years the Mesonet station has existed or about 38 or 39" based on the 30-year-average. I cannot imagine what we'll end up for this entire year if the rainfall doesn't drop off drastically. George, Been there, done that, with the water trying to suck the boots off my feet. I'm gonna need a boat if it keeps raining. We have sunshine today, y'all, and have had it for at least a couple of hours so it is hot and muggy outside where Tim is mowing and indoors as well, where I've been in the kitchen blanching and freezing oodles of snap peas and snap beans. At least it is a good year for legumes. My food processing is up for the day, so now the kitchen can cool off but Tim will be out there making mud ruts in the lawn with the mower for a while yet. I hope to be outside in the garden tomorrow morning picking tomatoes, and probably more sugar snap peas. Of course, that depends on whether or not it rains tonight. There's tons of wildflowers blooming all over now, on both sides of the river, so at least the bees, butterflies and other flying things should be thrilled. This morning we had a blue bird world out in the yard with all sorts of the birds coming for their birdseed breakfast---we had indigo buntings (which I've only seen a handful of times, mostly in the last year), painted buntings, bluebirds and blue jays. There were tons of other birds, most notably mourning doves and cardinals, but I was enthralled by the many kinds of blue birds all visiting at the same time. In every direction that I looked, I could watch blue birds flying here and there, jockeying for position in the area where I'd scattered some bird seed for them. Dawn...See More- 11 years ago
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