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Here's a pic of the limber pine, newly planted. I think it's beautiful.
(pardon the mess behind it, the bare stems are iron weed I chopped back halfway today)
Very nice. Is there a better pine for blue than what you show? The only one that comes to mind would be Pinus peuce 'Pacific Blue'.
No snow here and we haven’t been close to freezing. It looks like you might have some cleanup work.
Mind that this is just a forecast.........
Yes, if predictions are correct, the stratospheric warming could split the polar vortex in two, causing one to center near Hudson Bay, driving very cold arctic air further south than ever.
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I'm surprised a good nut would float but sometimes several tiny bubbles will stick around the shell and creates bouyancy.
Lots of tannins in the bitternut nuts and that's what causes the bitter flavor.
For spring planting, there's a 120 cold stratification period after 4 days of soaking the nuts.
With Fall planting, you just plant the nut in the ground and keep them moist.
It's important to protect the planting spot with some hardware cloth pinned to the ground, or squirrels will find them and dig them up and not even thank you for the treat. ;-)
Covering with mulch retains moisture.
And remember to protect the new seedlings from Rabbits and Deer next spring.
Beautiful fall day today and the garden was hoping!
Seeing a couple monarchs around.
More Sulphurs then I’vevseen all season.
The Dahlias are all loaded up with bees
Monarch!!!!!! haven’t seen one in years
Mine was planted 23 years ago this fall, and is now >25' tall and wide. At my location, it flowers from the last week of August thru late September, and the calyces are effective for most of October. And of course it's a great late season pollinator plant, as well as providing food for the birds. As it matures it does require some annual thinning & deadwooding, but IMO is worth the effort. Photo today (10/10/26):
Nice conifer garden. It reminds me a bit of what the Gall brothers have done in Moline, IL.
Ditto to the above.
So many wonderful pics again, so different, so soon?
Has anyone visited the garden in person?
Has the gardener entered any local garden competitions?
Acer tegmentosum. I don’t know if it’s unique, but the fall color change starts uniformly at the leaf margin, which I find interesting.
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@BillMN-z4a No red maple in the picture. All the color is in Korean maple and the big trunk in the left of the photo is a honeylocust that shades the Korean maple.
Very dry here, and most things not coloring well. A couple of exceptions: Nyssa sylvatica 'Autumn Cascade'
Quercus sternbergiia
And a hickory across the road
Interesting thread as I started seeking out more shrubs 2 yrs ago. I have had mostly a good response. I can't get Fothergillas to do anything for me so I threw out the last one.
I have a deer problem and horrible issues with squirrels and a groundhog digging up all the perennial beds and dislodging the plants. I have tried crushed peppers, ammonia and wire nothing stops them.
I am almost 76 and still have plenty of energy and strength and desire it's just the animals that are wearing me out.
What flowering shrubs and interesting barks are you planting? Nothing very big as I have limited spaces although I guess I can always find room for something special.
Zone 7a Shenandoah Valley Lexington VA ( Winters keep getting colder and Summers hotter and drier ) c
I am going through the same process, replacing many roses and herbaceous perennials with more tough evergreen shrubs and shrubby plants, but for slightly different reasons. My summers are getting increasingly hot, long and brutal, so plants that coped fine five or ten years ago are really struggling now. I am likewise physically struggling to provide the increasing water levels they need to limp on. I still love gardening and always will, but when the maintenance becomes a chore rather than a pleasure it’s time to change tack.
maackia, I've read in at least one popular book that weeping eastern hemlock is ranked at the very top of beautiful weepers. I agree. I saw a large, beautiful specimen at Swarthmore College, PA. I've read that the low hemlock weepers don't attract much attention from the HWA.