My Stick Trees Think It's Summer!!

My sticks have blossomed. I left them soaking in the house too long before planting them and, without a greenhouse, I have to keep the fragile little guys inside. To plant them, I had to thaw out the soil first. LOL

Being single, at least I don't have to fight with anybody about my choice of location. If I put them anywhere else, the cats will nibble their little heads off . . .

I was supposed to have received 4 Cornus Florida (flowering dogwood), 4 Cercis Canadensis (american redbud), 3 Koelreuteria Paniculata (golden raintree). I was thrilled at the golden raintree, as I haven't grown any to maturity before. And I had one mystery "stick".

They are all marked with temporary color on them so you can identify them. Yeah, right. :-)

So five of them have truly leafed out, I can see very swollen buds on a couple more. The first one, the mystery stick, Mary says might be a Lagerstroemia Indica (Crape Myrtl)e, if the color on it is right, based on a plant identification guide she had from Arbor Day. It was the first to make an appearance.

Pretty crazy lookin' as the only life is in the the two branches, which protrude out either side of a very frail-looking, almost straw-thin, stalk.

The other four that are blooming appear to have Koelreuteria-like leaves, even though they're marked in different colors.

Here's the one that's the farthest along.

This is the most exciting thing in the kitchen!!

They are so darn cute! Will be interesting to see what they grow up to be!

The way it looks Katie is, that is the Crape, leaves look like mine, the next pic looks like the Red Bud, mine started leafing at the trunk, same shaped leaves. Mine are kept in a cold room.

The second pics' leaves have lobes or teeth on the leves, which is more like the golden raintree. The red bud doesn't have those??? So you have leaves now? That's great!!

Mine does, unless they painted them wrong, would be my guess.

I think you're right. They definitely painted them wrong. Both redbuds and dogwoods have smoother leaves than this. But I'm not really tied to the outcome - I didn't order trees, just renewed my membership. The trees are a bonus and I'd love to have some golden raintrees to share at some point down the road . . .

I only wanted the Crepe realy, but would have liked the Red Bud too, But Free Is Free
Don't ya know.
can't have anything for nothing these days

Well, and they really aim to please. If you called them and asked for one of the trees they give away, they would probably give one to you.

Don't forget that I'm still saving the white cornus florida for you. they're sitting on my driveway for the time we eventually get together . . .

One of these days we'll get together somewhere along the line, I have the spot for them and more, at least if my stick ones make it anyway.

Katie 59 are you going to the green elephant? I donated some golden rain trees and I can throw in a crepe mrytle and a red bud if you'd like pixy is coming over again I think. Heidi

I will be at the Green Elephant, Heidi. Yes, include them, if you'd like!!

Great I will send some with pixy when she comes again. She did get some golden rain trees I think. I think she will post what she got yesterday. Glad to support the cause. When I'm done with Daves tonight I sit in my kitchen and pot up seeds. My kitchen has plants in it and my fridge is full of seeds. We know our priorities. Heidi

I've decided that I need lots more hostas and astile for my shady border (all around the west edge of my property, really), so I'm hastily gathering seed for more of those to see if I can't get some seedlings started this year. I'm thinking that maybe my single trillium will be inspired to reproduce if it has some leafy companionship. Right now, that border is grass, salmon berry, elderberry, sword fern, bracken fern with ranunculus, herb robert, and what I call shotweed thrown in. Arghhhh.

Kathy - If I still have the dark pink astilbe in the orchard, you may have it. it was struggling - not enough moisture. Let's see if I can locate it next month...
Also - I could divide one LARGE Hosta - I don't know the name, but my friend called it Big Blue. I need to move it, and can divide it at that time. Yes, that would be March!

Heidi beat me to it. Yes, I do have golden raintrees. I have everything I got at Heidi's for the swap put together in the driveway, and I'm adding stuff from my place to it. When people come over next weekend they can go through what's there and take stuff for their yards and for the swap. I'm going back up on feb 26. Got two really nice poplars that someone with a large piece of property would be able to use well. Some sawtooth oaks, lots of the polygonum (the pink stuff), some creeping veronica, some nice arum italicum with a yellowish variegation, a magnolia grandiflora, a water oak, tibetan gentian, variegated japanese elm, viburnum plicatum tomentosum, a prostrate rubus from Heronswood (ground cover) , knautia, that grass people wanted (the name escapes me) , some other stuff, too. I didn't even make a dent in her stock, but my car was full. Mostly trees and shrubs, a few perennials.

Pix - can you save some for me? I'll take some polygonum, speedweel and knautia and maybe the magnolia if nobody else wants it.

Katye and I are coming together. We should be there at around 10:00. But of course we'll need directions . . .

I'll dmail you. Okay, Katie, I've got some of the polygonum for you, the veronica, a magnolia (that's the last one of those). I'll see if there is more knautia. I have the wheelbarrow full of the stuff that isn't in pots. I have to dig to see what's there. I planted some of the polygonum underneath my beauty bushes today. We'll see how that does. I think the pink bloom will do nicely against the leaves. The shrubs bloom pink in the spring, then they need a little something to spice them up during the summer.

Great. Thanks, Pix.

Hi Mary -

Hope you catch this post. I have a question about my Arbor Day trees. I appear, so far, to have 3 kinds of trees. Two of them have toothed leaves, one does not. Unfortunately, the dogwood and redbud don't have toothed leaves, so whatever I have is something else. While it looks like one of the toothed-leaf kind of plants might be Goldenraintree, the other is different - has a tip and one "tooth" on either side of the leaf.

I didn't get a "list" of possible plants from Arbor Day. Can you check your list and tell me what the other tree possibilities might be? If the list is too long, don't bother. I was just trying to narrow my options down.

Thanks!

Kathy

Hey Kathy give me a minute, I will scan it .

Oooooh, you're great. Everything I can find makes it sound like they're all goldenraintrees, but their leaves are in differing patterns. I've drawn pictures. Wish I had a scanner.

For some reason I cant find it, I know I had listed them in one of the other treads,
I have mine marked .
Dog wood (4)
Red bud (3) 1 has leaves are tooth
Rain tree (3)
Mrytle (1) has leaves not tooth

When I find it, I'll send it, I move things around in here now I cant find anything.

Maybe I just need to wait - and got all goldenraintrees. Mine were color-coded and I marked them based on that. But apparently they were all wrong - and I have 4 goldenraintrees so far. I don't mind, as I didn't order any of them; I just hate the mystery. I already have a few young mystery trees out there now.

You has told me earlier that the green-marked tree was crape myrtle. but, of course, now I know that the color-coding isn't always right. I just thought that maybe you had a longer list of options that they didn't send to me or show on their site. Thanks for checking. I sure do appreciate it.

We'll just have to wait and see . . .

That was the only list I got, ( wish I could find it) and it match the number of trees I got. makes me wonder, what do I have. LOL

Katie, got the knautia for you.

Thank you, Pix.

So it looks like my little trees are rhus aromatica. Turns out that kwanjin had the same thing happen with her Arbor Day trees. The trunks are a little like the Koelreuteria, so I'm guessing that the person who was supposed to mark them with paint made a mistake. Anyway, she had asked the question on plantid last year and somebody remembered it.

They look like a nice little plant, though I'm not sure whether I have enough sun. And I'll go back to Arbor Day on general principles because I want some redbud and some goldenraintree.

It's a kind of cool plant

http://www.sbs.utexas.edu/bio406d/images/pics/ana/rhus_aromatica.htm

http://www.swcoloradowildflowers.com/Yellow%20Enlarged%20Photo%20Pages/rhus%20aromatica.htm

http://www.wildflower.org/gallery/result.php?id_image=17523

Funny, though, a search for this doesn't come up on their website. I wonder if they contract out and the mistake was made by a supplier. Hmmmm. Mystery.

I don't know which thread I was on but here is Boo with his new toy Tilly gave him> So happy and protecting it from the others .

Here is my big unit Butter trying to be small. She knows my favorite dogs are pomerainums.

Whoops Here is the queen

Awwwwwww!

Heidi love the pic, Happy he likes it.

Katie, did you say you have a Golden Chain tree that you don't want? I wish I had known you wanted a golden raintree. I have one! I'll put your name on it. If you have a golden chain tree and you don't want it, I'll take it for my friend who is a new gardener.

Oops, sorry. I don't have golden chain - I have golden rain (from arbor day). It's one of their standard free trees and I had just wished that I had had one that survived from previous orders. It looks like I got a couple of goldenrain trees with this order - and then a lot of rhus aromatica.

The golden chain is a laburnum, as I recall. Some or all parts of it are poisonous, I think (have to check). Anyway, that one I don't have.

Pixy both those were in the free pile I don't know if you got a golden chain or not. They are small but grow fast.