The "Frosty Stuff"... #2

lol. I'm lost all of the time.

This message was edited Feb 5, 2009 11:18 AM

Yeah, women. We're hard to read. LITERALLY!!

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Can't imagine going from Billy Bob to Brad Pitt! Like hell to heaven. Scotch broom is also repulsive. ^_^

I'm with you, Patricia. Although the circumstances have certainly taken the gleam off Mr. Pitt for me . . .

I'm the only one, I guess, who likes SB. I understand it's invasive, but I like it, nonetheless. Sheri has one with red in the blossoms on her property.

I think it's pretty too. But then I got to watching it take over a hillside, not good for the other plants.

I think if you've ever had to try to eradicate it from somewhere, you wouldn't like it anymore! that's just a guess though :-p It is pretty though. I put it up there with raccoons: they're cute, but I still detest them. Scotch broom is pretty, but I still detest it!!

Scotch broom is beautiful. It also has a soft yellow type as well as the regular and the red. I saw a yard one day that had a broom as a topiary. Funny. We are trying to get rid of it in our complex. I've spent years trying to pull it on our road. Now they are spraying it with Roundup so I dropped off the environmental committee in protest.

Just goes to show that even in the natural world, you get more respect if you play "hard to get". :-)

crimson queen in the snow

coral bark maple

celestial dogwood - another crimson queen - and the coral bark maple in the back what is a large bed now with a blanket of snow.

I love the row of coral barks against the snow. Mmmmmmm. I hadn't yet figure out where to plant mine, so I gave it to the neighbor, figuring I'll get to see it every time I drive by, so it was a win win.

I'd love to have a stand of them, though, especially if we start to get snow every year. Lovely!

How much snow do you all still have? When does the ground usually start to show?

thanks katie - that is only one cbm btw.

how much snow do we still have? it is the middle of winter here - more snow to come - we have a couple of feet on the ground maybe more.

I've been out of Alaska too long. Having snow on the ground seems so foreign to me. So does the ground start to show in May or before?

That is ONE beautiful cbm. :-)

Oh, I happen to love Scotch broom, though I don't have any here. My mother had one here some time ago, but it died at one point. Would like to get another someday. Like the one with red blossoms.

Karen

Karen would you like me to send you a few dozen seedlings!? At least once a week I walk the property and pull the little buggers! When we bought our property it was covered in the stuff, many of them where taller than me, 5'3" My dad and I spent weeks hand pulling and digging every last one of them, unfortunately the seeds can germinate for up to 75 years (found that little ditty out from one of the members on the Washington State Noxious Weed Control Board) so I will be harvesting offspring for many years to come :0( Spanish Broom is a class A noxious weed and Cytisus scoparius is a class B noxious weed. I love the bright yellow color but I despise the fact that it is not a "polite plant."

Those are great Bill!! I'm with Katie, the coral bark with the snow for background is really striking! How old is the Crimson Queen? It looks as though it's been there a while.

Those scotchbroom seeds are so potent that, whenever we are fighting a forest fire in an area that has them, but have to travel to a different area that doesn't have them to sleep for the night/or day, we have to set up a "wash station" before leaving the fire area to wash down all the vehicles and equipment so as to try to avoid helping the spread of them.

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Karen we will see ground in a 6 weeks or before - i hope

hi shelly - yeah the cbm is nice - although this is the one that had a major branch break to the ground - there was still bark attached so i picked it up and wrapped it - if you look close you can see the green wire i used to keep it up - i will very lucky if this heals.

and the crimson queen - victor asked the same question which you may have seen - it is about 11 years old - bought it a home depot - had really bad damage - i've moved it from my previous home and transplanted once more here. the one in the back is about 8.

I had a scotch broom once, too, Karen that bit the wheatie. It was red. I've never seen any seedlings spring up. Must be an east coast thing. We kill scotch broom. :)

Rachierabbit, maybe I shouldn't get any seedlings if they are that bad for spreading. I don't know how they are here. I think I have seen them around various areas, but I don't know if it's listed as a noxious weed or invasive here. Maybe I should get a more well behaved variety, if there is such a thing. I wonder if there are sterile varieties?

Karen

Some nurserys have broom varities that are not spreding or invasive. Some catalogs carry them also.

I've seen those brooms that are the other colors, they are cytisus hybrids whereas the actual scotch broom is Cytisus Scoparius. The hybrids are really pretty and I've heard good things about them not being invasive...... but I just can't bring myself to buy one of those things.

I live in the foothills and there isn't so much scotch broom here - but ranunculus repens is rampant (say that 3x fast). that plant is my nemesis, but is as prevalent and herb robert and shotweed, so I can't imagine ever getting rid of it.

I don't know if Sheri'sCytisus was planted - I think it was there when they bought the property and built on it. That would imply that it seeded itself and was not sterile. I just assumed that it was a natural occurrence, but don't really know.

Bill, good luck with the coral bark. It looks as though you did as good of job as possible to mend it back together. If it was ment to have that branch.... then it will.

Jan, I'm not nice to scotch broom either!

Katie, I thought that I read some where that, that ranunculus can be 'blacked out' if you have large patches of it(big project I know) if you don't want to take the round up approach.

There's still a little ice on the little fir.

OOPS, I meant to say that I killed it , but not on purpose. LOL

lol, either way.... I'm good with it!!

Redchic, I vote for you having the best frost for picture taking. Second would be the hoar frost.

I second that!

Lol... you two are funny.

You know in highschool when they vote folks: the most likely to succeed, most likely to be a millionaire, etc, etc, I never would've thought that I would have "best frost" lol. But hey, I'll definitely take it!! I have a feeling that tomorrow it will be snow. But, I won't be home during the time of day, tomorrow or wed, when the sun might actually be hitting anything (about 10:00- 1130 it comes over the hill horizon).

Not sure if this makes the grade for best frost, but it's cute.

ummm... I don't know. I'm just going to call this 'a fungus.'

Looks like it's been dipped in rock salt. Neat crystals. The fungus...yeah.

haha

Lot of beauty in the "frosty stuff"

hmmmm.... I don't know about that fungus. But thanks!

Nice, Shelly!

Karen

twisted fern

thanks Karen!