Northeast Gardening: I STARTED GARDENING..........., 1 by redchic01

redchic01 wrote:
south. the year prior to the picture some arsonist shot at the transformer in the powerline above this area to try to start a forest fire. Gee, not much of a match for the sprinkler system, but it still got to an area of about a 150' radius before I got to turn the system on and then fire folks were there a few minutes later. most of the on shorter, bushier, died or heavily damaged. My favorite dogwood (I have no idea how the cercis lived) was damaged but the the thing bloomed great the next year! It's going to bloom great this year two (that is if the snow doesn't kill the flower buds) but it is starting to show a lot of signs of stress.