Is Selleck still alive?? Hee hee.
2009 wish list
Yes, he's still alive, Victor. Watch yourself. He's only five years older than I am. I just love him, and think he's still the best looking man on TV.
He was on Boston Legal not that long ago, and I love the series he did of Jesse Stone.
Did anyone know his real father played his grandfather on Magnum PI?
And who saw Boston Legal last night? How sad that fine show has come to an end.
Hee hee. I was only joking, Polly!
Good thing you said that, Victor. I know you're a youngun, but don't be picking on us olderthanyou folks.
be careful with with anyone from a town with the name Hannibal Victor!!
Good point, Bill. Only takes a few letters to go from Victor to Lecter!
LOL
Yes, Tom is a favorite! I LOVE the show - Bones.
Youse guys are too funny!
That is one of my favs, too .... That episode a couple weeks ago on the airplane was funny.
I just realized this is a wish list not a want list. I wish they made more Crepe Myrtle's that were hardy for z5, 4,and 3!
Hannibal Victor! I love it!!!
But, seriously, folks . . .
I "wish" for all available resources for free! (Oh, wait, that's my Santa wish list!)
Every fall/winter, when I see the winterberry bushes, I kick myself for not getting one. I never think of them any other time of year. I just put up a sticky note to remind me next year!
Cute, Sue! Any shrub or tree with berries is wonderful for the winter.
True - I have a barberry, but that doesn't last all winter.
Nandina does. Winter King hawthorn does. Some viburnums last into the winter but usually not throughout. Hollies - both deciduous and evergreen do nicely. Some crabapples too (my neighbor's does.)
My crabapple doesn't last - only because the robins feast on it all winter!
I have some beautiful crabs, that keep theri berries over winter, but the birds don't seem to care for the berries. Which one do you have, Sue?
Polly, I have no idea. I think it's a "wild" one because it came with the property, which was an old farm before we moved in 15 years ago. Here's a shot of (part of) it this past Spring. (Ah, Spring . . . !)
Love spring
Thanks anyway Sue. It's sure a pretty one.
I'll third that, JoAnn! A beautiful place to see crabapples is along rt 104. around the Sodus area. They interplant them with the apple trees there, and it's just beautiful in the spring. Apparently they help pollinate the apples. They have numerous varieties.
Does anyone know the names of crabs that the birds love the berries on? I've always wanted a Bechtel after seeing it in the book on Tasha Tudor, but I understand they are quite disease prone.
We have a bird planted crab which the birds work over every yr. so they must like a variety of them.
I have four different ones, and the birds don't seem to care for any of them. They are all the new disease resistent ones. Maybe I need to get some of the old fashioned ones then, and not worry about diseases.
Or maybe the birds have too much other stuff to eat here. I don't feed them during the warm months, but they love the ornamental grasses during the fall and winter, and I give them birdfood in winter.
I do have a chokecherry, and the robins come and strip it every spring. It's comical to see, they do it over a period of two days, at apparently the precise ripeness.
neighbors have an cherry of some sort ,I'm not a tree expert.
It blooms in May and is beautiful all summer. The cherries hang on all winter and in early spring befor crocuses are blooming April I guesss, the robins come and strip it. Dont know whu they leave it alone all winter.
Yes we have winter robins.
Other birds leave it alone, we have many crows that wont touch it either.
Cant figure that one out.
Found one of this yrs spring catalogs: decided I need Peppermint stick phlox & a green primrose. I would guess that the older crabapples have been around for so long that the birds are used to the taste. The disease reistant types may offer a new & different taste. No sign of disease on the bird planted one, but it is a single tree rather than an orchard.
Mine is a single tree, but I'm sure it would turn into an orchard if I let it. The berries that fall to the ground are very vigorous in sprouting seedlings. I did take three sprouts the year before last and planted them along a property boundary - they're about 2 feet tall now.
Where I am located is called Cheektowaga, which is the local American Indian name for "Land of the Flowering Crabapple!" Of course, they are just about everywhere here.
My crabapple tree suffers from some kind of blight. My father bought 4 of them, two white and two pink. He planted two in our yard and gave one of each to the next door neighbor. Must be 35 years ago, now.
I think one of our front yard football games as a kid did in the white one, but the pink one is still there today. The neighbor JUST last year cut down his pink one, which also had that disease, but his white one is unaffected. Since he cut his down, mine (the remaining pink one) has bloomed and fruited better than it has in a good decade. It seemed to have rust spots on the leaves which would all whither and drop off by August, seldom blooming, even more rarely fruiting.
I hacked it back sharply, removing all but the thickest of branches a few years or so. Looked bonsai for the first year. And of course, everyone told me I just killed it after I trimmed it like that ... ha! "Oh you can't trim trees like that without killing them." It looks like the Whomping Willow from that harry potter thing, so that is what it's called now.
Hacking it back like that seems to have helped it fight off the infection a bit. I should ask my neighbor what he found out the ailment was and what he treated it with.