a few spring pics of uncommon varieties
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Comments (10)Lisa b., I started out with with conifers in the Picea abies family (Norway spruce). My first conifer was Picea abies 'Acrocona': If you want a dwarf version of it there is a 'witches broom' dwarf called Picea abies 'Pusch': Anything in the Picea abies family would be a good start as they are hardy to zone 3. Pinus mugo (mugo pine) are also very hardy(Z2) and there are dwarf versions that are very bright gold in winter (P. mugo Carsten's Wintergold,P.mugo Zundert) also variegated(P.mugo 'Kokarde','Marand', 'Pal Maleter') Pinus mugo 'Teeny' Finally any of the Picea pungens (Colorado Spruce)dwarf cultivars might also be a good start. ('Montgomery', 'Glauca glabosa', St. Mary's) Picea pungens 'St. Mary's'. Picea pungens 'Mrs. Cesarini' Please be aware that I am no expert on conifers. There are probably much more qualified people on the conifer forum to give you advice. These are my personal opinions though, based on my personal experience in Zone 5 . Hope this helps .^^^Dan^^^...See MoreNew Pics re: a few pics thread...Kadota or fraud?
Comments (29)Thanks for the informative post mountainman. I knew that some open eye figs needed to be pollinated and other do not. I did not know that pollinating them could cause the pulp to change color. As for the poetry, I have written lots of poetry some better and some worse than the one above. Though I have never written a poem about figs before today. I just wanted express my love for figs and my unknown Keepers. I would not trade them for any other named fig. For now they are but a sweet mystery to be savored again and again. Till the Fall season over takes them and they sleep as though dead till Spring returns them to me once again. Enough now of poetry as this is not a poetry forum.lol...See MoreA few pics of the garden- taken in the last few weeks.
Comments (20)Wetsuitor: The only ones I dug up this year were 4 washies and a sago palm, each of which would take considerable protection here including heat. I will be leaving those in when they get 2 big to handle, but the washies seem to take root distubance very well and overwinter well indoors. There is of course some set back and it is slow to get growing in the spring, however I'm not ready to get into an elaborate heating system yet. I'm trying to work out my kinks this year on a trachy. Plus my wife would kill me if I had Jim's setup! I live in maybe the coldest winter 6a in America. This will be my 3rd winter here, the lowest low each of the past 2 years is -2, and -8F, HOWEVER, it is the norm to go 3 weeks at a time never getting above freezing. Last December and January, we had 9 days that got above freezing during the day, and most of those were in the 33-38F range for highs. We also had 2 3-weeks seesions of consecutive below freezing weather. The other problem is that I generally don't see grass from Dec.1 to mid-March, it never gets warm enough to ever melt the snow. Last year I lost 2 decent sized trachies and a sabal palmetto, and my minors and needle that survived received considerable damage, the minors burned 98%, the only things left were the emerging spears. Needle had spear pull with surving pups. That was with frost cloth wrapped unheated leaf cages, which provided 0-30% damage and no losses the year before....See MoreJust a few pics of my spring trees
Comments (29)Tom, I have to explain to everyone that it's not a weeping willow and that it is a Japanese Maple. I really like it a lot. Sorry to hear about your tree. Sometimes workers just don't care about other peoples property. I had the same thing happen to one of mine early on even after the owner of the company and I talked about it and to make sure to watch out for it. Not 30 minutes into the job they had broken it in half. Come time to pay the bill I handed him a check minus what I had paid for the tree. He didn't like it but he took it and left....See Moredavidrt28 (zone 7)
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