Thuja plicate "Forever Goldy"
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can you recommend a conifer?
Comments (1)Cupressus macnabiana. May eventually get too large, but will be a long time doing so. Broad, rounded shrub with a delightful spicy-resinous foliage scent; California native on dry sunny sites. Resin...See MoreTree help
Comments (40)Here's a quote from that site, lol: "The myth of Ceanothus being short lived is primarily spread by incompetent gardeners that insist on applying drip irrigation, summer water and soil amendments. Upland native plants hate all three. Expect a 25+ year life in most well tended (no overwatering, no soil disturbance, no fertilizing, no drip, no application of soil amendments) gardens." Although we will have drip, our landscape company is going to put in deep watering tubes (I don't know if there is an "official" name for those) for the trees. Sounds like it otherwise thrives on neglect...sounds like my kind of tree. LOL!!! Don't get me wrong, I know all these things we put in are going to require some care, but with the size of our lot, I need some things I don't have to do much to so I have time for the things that do require care. And so I can spend time in my veggie garden. So since the guy at the nursery pointed out that Saucer Magnolias aren't messy like the Southern ones, I've spent the morning looking for a good variety of it that stays smallish (not 20 feet wide...maybe 10) and truly isn't messy like the Southerns. Any suggestions? The nursery has Vulcan but I'm not sure that's the best choice. I just wonder if what he said about Saucer's not being messy is really true of all the Saucers......See MoreTree Selection
Comments (13)Never one to hold back an opinion.........purple leaf plums are crap trees - put those out of your mind :-) And birches have issues in hot climate locations like the Sacramento area, are not at all drought tolerant and are falling prey to bronze birch borers all across the country. In your location, you really need to be considering very drought tolerant plants and few, if any, that you have considered/listed/mentioned are very drought tolerant at all. And some will require regular, routine irrigation if they hope to thrive at all. Here's a couple of listings for you to consider: Drought Tolerant Trees for Northern California Sacramento Tree Guide - you can sort by size, water needs and deciduous or evergreen [Top Ten California Native Plants[(https://www.houzz.com/magazine/10-top-california-native-plants-trees-and-grasses-stsetivw-vs~29024144) Water-wise Shrubs List Water-wise Tree List Note that the last two contain some plants I would not consider to be very drought tolerant even in my PNW very mild summer droughts - I wouldn't include any Japanese maples or the smokebush, for example. And just as an FYI, saucer magnolias are neither evergreen, very drought tolerant and are quite messy, especially when their flowers go over....See MoreArborvitae or Juniper - Clay soil and Rabbits
Comments (11)You have no deer or you think what you are seeing is being done by rabbits anyway? Out here it's the deer that barber the 'Smaragd' hedges. With rabbit damage to conifers that I have recognized being limited to fall clipping of entire branches from true firs and spruces for winter nesting material. Forever Goldy is a Thuja plicata selection. Deer keep the accessible branch sections of the one wild T. plicata I have seen on my 5 acres stripped bare of foliage. Rocky Mountain juniper cultivars like the two you listed may find your eastern location too humid. As is the case with my area, where despite there being a continuing history of Juniperus scopulorum and Colorado spruce cultivars being prevalent at local outlets intermountain species such as these are not well adapted here, develop problems. The two arborvitae species being seen in swamps in the wild does not assure that a nursery grown specimen being flooded from the first winter after being placed in your low spot will tolerate it. Because wetland conditions vary from one place to the next and it is the total combination of circumstances, the complete package that determines what will grow on any given site. Also you will of course have to do something about the summer dryness. At least during the early years of a new planting. Under water in winter and baking in summer is just about the toughest possible combination....See MoreA S
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