DR's in mine opinion, seem to be relatively easy, robust trees. I don't know about absolute Winter hardiness of the species but have to agree with Wisconsin that sometimes a tree just dies for no apparent reason. A few years ago, I planted one that did well for a few years, then last Spring, after it had started to leaf out, we hit an early April heat wave with high wind and heat (mid 90's) for three days. The tree looked like it got blasted with a torch and never recouped so I chucked it and planted a half dozen others. They seem quite sensitive to temp/humidity extremes when leafing out and before the foliage is really hardened off. I would give it another shot. PS. Northern growers should be aware that this tree has a LOW tolerance to road salts which will do them in as much as extreme cold. I half suspect that mine was done in by salt and chemicals from an adjacent drive way and pool!

Oh, boy! I've been sick and coming back and reading this is like...well, like a mandate to go to the nusery! Most of you guys have warmer gardens than me, but these still have to be plants that'll show up early here too. Nippersdad, this is my first year with Edgeworthia. My friends all went crazy over it some time ago, but I looked at those silly flower-on-stick blooms and, as much as I love fragrance and winter bloom, decided to pass. Then I saw a mature plant all leafed out in another garden, and wow! The foliage is lush, even a bit on the tropical side, and it makes a very handsome plant for a position you'll be passing by a lot. Not so in winter, but then you get to spend the whole fall and early winter watching and waiting as those buds swell, so it is really a prize. That's very valuable information about daphne, Steve, and I'm writing it down to remember. It's still on my must-have-someday list so I haven't managed to kill it yet. What a great trip, Razorback. I love the Tama types but they sold out during a trip I made with friends to Fort Valley before I could grab one. Speaking of wanting more room, I used to live about 15 minutes from Descanso Gardens and 20 from Nuccio's Nursery, but my entire garden, carved out of the side of a mountain, totaled about 4000 square feet. I had 5 camellias in the shady back. Candytuft's always been on the list, Mk87, but it suddenly jumped up big time on the tidy groundcover list I'm trying to put together. I have so much dirt to cover and am already seeing that vining groundcovers are going to be a major hassel to control in large spaces. Thank you. A plant that's doing very nicely in my garden is lime thyme. Lemon thyme kept dying back after a while, but lime thyme's looking very pretty and fresh out there right now. If rodents (I assume) hadn't eaten my little species tulips, they would have been a wonderful picture. I'll be trying again. I don't mind all the learning experiences so much, it's that they take soooo long! I'm afraid of what another of these cycles is going to do, even though I have no winter-flowering camellias yet (it's so cold here I have to stick with winter-hardy, with maybe a couple of my favorites tucked against the house. What a difference these warm temperatures made since my post on New Year's Day, though. My tiny Osmanthus delavayi now has tiny buds at each leaf joint, so it will bloom after all, and both witch hazels, virginiana and Primavera, are opening flowers I thought had been killed by that early cold. These are my first from them, and I was thrilled to find their fragrances lovely and easy to discern from even one open flower (turns out they start blooming from the bottom, so I'm on my knees in the mud checking them out). Also looking very nice out there is Lavandula stoechas, Spanish lavender. The label's gone (do birds fly off with them?), so I don't know what cultivar, if any, but it's a very handsome tidy mound of a pretty pale green-blue-gray. And has a wonderful fragrance when you brush your hand over in passing or pinch off a piece to carry along. It's not in an especially dry or well-draining spot but doesn't seem to have been bothered by the rains so far. My husband needs me. A window just blew out of his workshop.

Might I ask what summer top pattern you are using? DamascusAnnie is right about the swatch. That's the first thing you'll want to do. I personally knit tighter than the given gauge. If the pattern is a simple one and includes a schematic you can use your gauge to personalize the sweater with whatever yarn you would like. I just did this with a dress recently and I used Grace yarn. Sometimes the only problem with using larger needles when the yarn is of smaller gauge is that the weave in the fabric tends to be looser making the garment a little more "revealing" than one would like.

water when a plant needs water ... insert a finger.. and find out how it all works in your soil ... some needle loss is not uncommon are transplanting ... and after the first winter.. the future is all in the buds.. and what they do this spring ... and you dont mention how big the transplant was .. nor if it was ball and burlap ... you need to provide pix if you want anything more than WAGS ... and no one can tell you how it works in your soil .... in your yard... in your area ... ken https://sites.google.com/site/tnarboretum/Home/planting-a-tree-or-shrub