Trees & Shrubs

Hemhostaholic, do you have a picture of your Abies? I put this on my "wish" list this year and hoping I'll be able to find one at an Open House we're going to next weekend to add to our conifer garden.

DB: so nice to hear that today is the prettiest day of the year for you. I hope each day just improves on the prettiest.

ditto

Nice thought. Wish all days were like this one here today. Just spectacular - one of the ten best.

Great day and I even accomplished a lot. I could do this for the next month and finally be up to date.

Great day here too but I did nothing (gardening)!! Getting ready for family tomorrow.

Pirl and Harper - Thanks! What a lovely thought, Pirl...and I wish the same for you and for us all! It was just absolutely sparkling!! Tonight - can you imagine!!??? - it is going to be 39 degrees at 3:00 a.m.. I just came back in from going up to my potting shed by flashlight to put my pots of mesculin greens up under the porch. I set them out in the open in my garden sink to keep our grandsons from knocking them off their plant stands today, and then when I saw the forecast....yikes! They'd probably be ok anyway, but it's taken a bit of effort to keep the chipmunks from cleaning me out again, so I'm not taking any chances with these two pots.

Victor - glad you had a gorgeous day too....did you go for a hike?? Great day for one! Our walk this morning was just the berries!! :) (love that expression - my Mom used to say it a lot)

Victor - you were posting while I was asking if you went for a hike.....I guess you couldn't .....enjoy your gathering with family tomorrow! Ours was today.....all the grandsons....yeah, I'm tired!!

Thanks!

rcn-I don't have pics of anything yet. I just got my iMac, had an oldie but goodie laptop from Gateway, I think it was about 8 years old...and I just got DSL. So, I haven't gotten around yet to getting a digital camera, but that is on my wish list for xmas this year. Go figure, I have no problem dropping about $200 for one tree, or a new Payne daylily, but I can't budge buying a digital camera...LOL... Many of the better catalogs offer the Abies koreana 'Hortsmans Silberlocke' but if you call them up, you'll find out that most of them are only about 12"-18" tall...Now I don't know about anyone else in here, but a slow growing evergreen, at a foot and a half...I'd probably be pushing up daisies, or weeds, before it was anything substantial. I bought mine, preorder, at a local nursery, they ran, for 6', about $250 each...again, back to the digital camera thing...lol.

Thanks Hem, even though I DO have a digital camera, I'm terrible about keeping up to date with photos of the gardens :( I'm in the market for one of the slim designs that will fit in my pocket so the camera will be readily available - my older Olympus is never where I want it, or need it!

Hem, check eBay. You can get a good used camera for very little.

rcn, bought this one for DD last Christmas for those EXACT reasons. She loves it as it's so small but takes great pictures!!
These are the dimensions.....the rest you can read about on the link.
Height 2.3 inches
Width 3.6 inches
Depth 0.8 inches
Weight 4.3 oz

http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/Fujifilm-FinePix-F470-Digital-Camera-Silver/sem/rpsm/oid/146852/catOid/-16941/rpem/ccd/productDetail.do

pixie, thanks! checked it out, looks like new model (F480) will be available this month and might be just what I'm looking for AND it's less expensive than the Nikon I was looking at :)

glad I could help rcn!

rcn and Celeste - does this model have a macro setting for close-ups of flowers?

Louise, not that I can tell but it has a great zoom on it so that may be why. This one has a macro, you can read the reviews from other people to see how they liked it. http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/Panasonic-Lumix-DMC-LZ7S-Digital-Camera/sem/rpsm/oid/186858/catOid/-16941/rpem/ccd/productDetail.do
actually this doesn't say macro on it either, so im really not sure.

This message was edited Sep 3, 2007 11:01 AM

Hey Victor....Months after your posts convinced me to put in Heptacodium, I finally got one. On sale too---$22. Not bad as its about 3' tall. Going in the primo spot in the yard--in the corner of the house between the front and side porch and between the walkway and the house. There's a ratty magnolia there now which I have to tear out. Sun from sunrise until noon, then a little sun coming through the porch later on. When it gets above the side porch, it will have full sun all day. Do you plant anything under yours? I'm thinking of saturating that square plot with spring bulbs. Any ideas?

Louise & rcn, I use this one but it's not pocket size.
http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-path=10387/10388/6547&pq-locale=en_US

Hi David - congrats! Good choice. You'll certainly love it. My branching is pretty much to ground level and I've yet to trim it up. I might do that soon since the exfoliation is really nice now. I do have some bulbs around it and one Clematis growing up it. I'll post some photos soon. It's about to bloom.

Louise, yes, the Fuji and Nikon models I'm looking at both have macro setting: here's the link I used for comparison of the two I'm looking at http://www.imaging-resource.com/CAMDB/compare_results.php?sections%5B%5D=1291§ions%5B%5D=1341&submit=Compare%20-->

Sorry Victor, now, back to the "topic" :) Looking forward to seeing pics of your Heptacodium. The 10' +/- tall tree we thought we lost has sent out new growth around the base and hopefully it will continue. The wonderful bark on the "dead" tree is a sad reminder of what it used to look like :(

Celeste and rcn - very helpful info and links....thanks very much!