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StarhillForest Illinois, IL(Zone 5b) Mar 21, 2006

OK, now THAT makes sense!

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ViburnumValley Scott County, KY(Zone 5b) Mar 23, 2006

Anyone who wants to see what the stalwart red-flowering quince can put up with merely needs to drive into Louisville KY on I-64 westbound from the Frankfort area. Between exit 15 at Hurstbourne Lane and exit 12 at I-264 there are three miles of Chaenomeles speciosa lining both sides of the interior of the four foot raised bed in the concrete Jersey barriers that separate opposing lanes of traffic. The hundred thousand or so Euonymus alatus (planted at the same time about 10-15 years ago) have basically all died, but the quince are hanging in there.

The state transportation cabinet has spent some serious tax dollars this winter giving the whole mass (mess?) a haircut with a aerial bush hog and then hand removing all the dead bodies. The wee quince are just blooming now (though the freezes may have extinguished any flowers this year). Crews are installing brand new bare root plants of some kind in the space formerly known as The Great Red Stripe. One of these days I'll slow down and do some 55 mph (80 kph) identification and let you know what the replacement plant might be. It IS mulched with pea gravel.

At three miles long, eight feet wide, three inches deep, and 150 pounds/footł, that's a little over 1,173 ydł and 2,376 tons of pea gravel.

You do the math. Some quarry made out like a bandit.

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PrairieGirlZ5 Thornton, IL Mar 23, 2006

Isn't a little too early for the math questions? ;-)

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