Lovely pics Allison. I love the Polish Spirit clem.
As per Usual, Great pics Victor. Those hellebores are sure coming along.
Lucy, While you have the broken branch propped up, you might be able to "graft" it back to the plant. You may have already done this, but.....grab some electrical tape and take it out to the rhody with you. Then, line up the broken ends as best as possible, press them together tight, then wrap the electrical tape first around the wound. Then use the tape to make sure the wound is fully closed, and start winding between the plant and the broken branch trying to make the broken branch as immobile as possible as well as stuck to the stable plant, and broken ends still lined up. On many occasions, this does work! If it gets really wet where it is at then cover the electrical tape with duct tape or plastic. Remove that layer when dry weather is here, but leave the other tape on for at least 6 mo. If that broken branch is still green at that time, carefully remove the tape to check the wound. If it looks fully healed... your good! If not, then retape and recheck every month.
Garden Photos of '09......#5
lol.... it's actually not all that complicated. So long as the ends are matched up well and it's pretty immobile, it usually works. I think that Bill was doing something similar with a maple that last a limb in one of the ice storms.
yes i did although i used tree tape so the tree could still "breath" - i tried duct tape last year on a different maple and lost the branch.
Yeah, it's definitely the better way to go. That's the reason for the electrical tape as being the primary tape for bandaging it back together and the duct tape just to make sure that the electrical tape stays put when it rains. I have a hard time finding tree tape around here sometimes, then when I do get ahold of some.... I usually loose it somewhere!
How's the one looking that you did after the ice storm?
Might have to do it myself. My willow fence, which is attached to a four foot chain-link fence, fell over and smashed a few shrub branches. I re-attached the fence and will have to look more closely at the damage. Bummer.
A few c. sieberi tricolor are showing themselves:
Some are lurking . . .
Okay, now you're rubbing it in, David!^_^Very nice, David. Love that color in the first.
just another winterday here.
week after next will be in the 40's so generally anyone could say its getting warmer.
Nice crocus David
To be fair, I should post a wide angle view. But there wouldn't be much point. Binoculars are needed to see the crocus...
The dark photo was a surprise. Manual mode. Forgot, experimenting around inside, I had set the contrast at -2 and sharpness at +1. The "Intelligent Auto" mode is more intelligent than I am.
shelly have been out in the yard trimming all day - i did look at the CB maple and so far so good - there is no sign it is dead just nice and red
HLWS majestic red
WH Diane
Nice, Bill!
another shot
Still have a lot snow?
thanks victor
cq before trim
what make you say that? :)
and after the trim - i just cleaned up inside branches - still need to go at it with hand pruners
ugh. I'm trying so hard not to curse you all for having real signs of spring. I love living up here...except for this time of year. I go from the wonderful flowering trees in and around DC to here where I'm lucky to see flowers in spring (not a lot of bulb people here, nor a lot of flowering trees in zone 4). :sigh:
I do have moss though, and I really like this pic so wanted to share. this is on a rock on the S side of the waterfall, but is the W side of the rock. So happy to see so much moss after just a couple years.
click and you'll see the little thingys coming up from the moss (forget what they're called). here's another shot
d'oh, wrong button
I too get visits by a hawk (believe it is also a cooper's). yesterday I happened to catch it trying for something at the feeders. it missed and recouped in a tree. so gorgeous
Not speaking to David_Paul.
Wha, nice start on CQ. I agree that it looks like it needs more, but that is only from seeing what the Japanese gardener did to my MIL's amazing collection of JM that she had had before she died. He mostly just came to prune the maples, pines and grow moss. He was always tying up branches with bamboo to shape the trees. I loved her garden, but I never thought about trying to grow any in my garden until recently. Too many enablers on DG. I should have paid closer attention. I couldn't have asked him questions as he didn't speak much English. I wish I knew which ones she had, but the house has long since been sold.
'Diane' is a joy to see. I didn't order that one, perhaps I should have. I will enjoy yours.
We found a lot of rabbit damage on many shrubs this week, so we caged about 20 shrubs today including HLWS which they really stripped a bunch of bark from around the base. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Patti
evie_beevie, lucky you, moss and hawks, two of my DH favorite things. Your picture shows the reproductive part which is capsule on a seta, or commonly called a stalk. The stalk and capsule are apparent during only part of the year when conditions are right for reproduction. Hot times in Vt. Patti
In case you haven't checked the main NE Forum List, I would like to extend to you all an invite to the tour I just posted of our local Orchid Show that is running today and tomorrow!
The WNY Orchid Society's Annual Orchid Show at the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Garden
Come and explore WNY's historic Victorian Botanical Garden's GreenHouses with me as I proudly show it off!
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/957669/
Nice tree, Bill, & pretty crocus, DavidP---not even crocus foliage here yet. Love the moss--also like the lichens ie British soldiers & Pink Earth. My 4 yr old GD said today she is sick of brown grass---me too.
bbrookrd...aw gosh....yours are better hiding underground for the next few days anways.
ProMet forums tonight are very excited about this storm and when the meteorologists are having fun, its not good news....
Thinking about putting boxes over the crocus near the kitchen door. Maybe I can get a photo of crocus with a 5" to 8" wall of snow around them.
The crocus out in the lawn will to have to fend for themselves.
Howdy from Texas! Just thought I'd pop in and say "hi!". I'm having a wonderful time here. Staying at my sister's house just outside Gatesville, in Coryell County. She has 2 parcels of land there equaling 20 acres. Very nice place, and she just put a new home on it. It's not actually done, but she has moved in (the contractor is really dragging his ass on getting it finished, but that's a long story, so I won't go there). Her property is on a plataeu (spelling?), and her house has such a great view. Her property has an upper and lower level. It's a real hike to the bottom of the property.
I can see lots of potential for gardens there, but it's oh so dry here, and most of what she grows would have to be drought tolerant plants, unless she wants to do a lot of watering. I will have lots of pics to post when I return!
Take care all!
Karen
P.S. If anyone has asked me any questions in this thread, sorry if I haven't answered. I have limited access to the internet here, and I don't have time right now to go through everything. I'm a slow reader, and I'd be here an hour trying to get through it all.
Enjoy yourself, Karen
Karen, cold and windy, snow on the way, just thought you would want to know so you could sit back and smile. Have you seen any daffodils yet? Patti
Look who just came to visit...
You looking at me???
And off we go....
DyanesGarden, Great example of nature's colors at work. Nasty day here, no birds out. Thanks, Patti
Very nice, Dyane! Sharp-shinned?
Patti, you are so right. He has wonderful camouflage. I loved that silhouette link.
Victor, yes, Sharp-Shinned. I am so pleased with my new camera. Does pretty well its stock lens.
As I was typing he came back....
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If you have a bird feeder he is haunting for lunch hoerderrvs.