Pacific Northwest Gardening: plants getting bigger than labeled, 2 by momlady

momlady wrote:
I think what happens with those mugho pines is that people plant them, and then they move somewhere else before they see what will happen. They keep the idea of that cute little plant in their minds and go repeat the process the next place they live.

Here's the paperbark maple. I really like this tree. And to think, it only got planted because its predecessor got flattened when a new roof was being installed. I can't remember what the original tree was, but it was not as nice as this paperbark maple.

You are 100% correct about the difficulty estimating distances. For me there is also a laziness factor. It really killed me to dig the garden out as far as I did for the maple. What a pain in the neck! I hate digging out sod. I am really glad we persevered, but think we could've gone a little farther.