You beat me to it....the one I"m thought of immediately is co tea crabapple: malus hupenhenis I planted it 15 years ago because I loved the strong horizontal branching. In part shade it has proven less than ideal, but in full sun it should be wonderful. It is not without its flaws, lighter flowering every other year is the main one. But it has never gotten diseased and its flowers are lovely. There is another stunning one that has gold berries. Actually more striking in fall than the red crabs, I think. My suggestion is to go to a good nursery mid fall and see the branching patterns of trees without their leaves. If you go to one that has a good selection of crabapples, you can see the effectiveness of the winter fruit. A tree with 4 season interest is the best bang for your buck. Which makes me think of kousa dogwoods. Some have a wonderful horizontal branching, the bark is nice as it matures, the berries are pretty but not near a sidewalk and the animals enjoy them, and of course the flowers are present in early to mid June when the spring flowering trees are finished. lotsa new varieties, do your research and have fun. Fall isthe best time to plant, too.

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There are plenty of shopping streets/neighborhoods here that going to a mall is not a necessity. Not all malls are all covered here either, particularly Century City Mall, which has a parking structure, but you walk outside to go from store to store. Third Street Promenade is all outdoors, as is Rodeo Drive. Melrose Avenue is one of my favorite shopping streets, but I also like Sunset in the Silver Lake district. Hollywood and Highland also has a large central area that is open to the sky. There's really no need to cover these areas, since we don't have cold weather, and it's usually not too hot. Lowspark, you are not a weather wimp if you can handle living in Houston in the summer! I lived there when I was going to Rice, but I never managed to stay there in the summer. Rice closed for the summer when I was there - they didn't want to subject the students (and professors and staff) to the heat and humidity. DB had been telling me that Circuit City had been late with all their payments to Sony, and so we were not surprised when we found out that they were going into chapter 11. We bought a new TV recently and ended up getting it at Best Buy because they have a brand (Insignia) that got good reviews and was well under the employee discount price that DB could get from Sony for a similar LCD widescreen TV. I gave our old widescreen TV to the neighbors, for helping us move it out of the house. It was a rear projection TV and was huge!! I'm much happier with the flat screen TV, and our old TV, even though it was HD, was not compatible with Blu-ray. DB had bought a Blu-ray player a couple of weeks ago at a company sale (at Sony) along with an AV amplifier, but we could not get a picture on our old TV with it. Finally, I broke down and bought a new 47" Insignia flat screen LCD TV, and we're much happier with that. We only have a few Blu-ray discs, but we're starting to collect them. The old DVDs are supposed to look better on Blu-ray player, but it's difficult to tell. Lars

>When the plant is ready to grow and develop its root system< Transplants that aren't in such poor condition or circumstances that they are unable to produce a normal level of growth will generate new roots the first spring after planting, continue with a comparatively small amount of root growth the first summer after planting, and have a major push of root extension (60% of the annual total) the first fall after planting. With winter hardy stock in suitable climates perfectly timed plantings will occur right before the fall root rush, resulting in immediate substantial engagement of the new site. One year, therefore, is way too long for roots to have not grown through wrappings - and healthy plants definitely do not pause their root growth for a year after planting. While shopping for trees at my favorite nursery, we recently overheard another customer ask a staff person about installing her newly purchased B&B tree. “When I plant my tree I should take off the burlap and twine, right?” she asked. “Oh no,” exclaimed the sta ffer. “You don’t want to disturb the root ball. Just peel the burlap back from the trunk and leave the rest intact. Otherwise, the root ball will collapse and the tree will die.” At first glance, this appears to be reasonable advi ce. Balled and burlapped, or B&B trees, are much heavier than containerized plants and one can visua lize the root ball collapsing and crushing the root system. The weight of the root ball also helps stab ilize the tree and prevent tilting or falling. Finally, the root ball soil contains beneficial microbes and other soil organisms that can help ease transplant shock to the root system. With these benefits in mind, why would you consider doing anything differently? https://puyallup.wsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/403/2015/03/bb-root-balls.pdf