Re: now CES gardens was- and still sort of is- Pinus stobus'Contorta'

move it later? You have to be kidding. I don't move trees of any type unless it is to remove them forever.
 
I really am not worried about the height.. the sky is the limit there.
All of our wires are underground here and run along the property lines,
so that is not an issue with me. It is the width of the darn thing that
is concerning me....

 
It is very slender now comparing it to it's height. If the ratio was to
stay the same, it would only be about 5ft wide in lets say 10 years....
but that is not what I am reading on the internet. sigh.

 
Plan on walking around the property with it and see if I can find a better placement for it over the weekend.
 
Donna

----- Original Message ----

I don't think your spot will be ideal forever, but it could stay there 
awhile and then you could move it later.  I'd have to go to the gardens to 
check the current height of ours, but I'm guessing it's getting big.  We 
bought it about 2000 in Michigan with some other nice evergreens to start a 
conifer garden.  After a couple years we had to move the entire planting to 
another location where they've been since.  This garden has looked fine the 
past few years, but all of a sudden it appears way overcrowded and will need 
thinning.  I think that once these trees get esablished after a few years 
they really start growing.  I don't believe 'Contorta' will ever get as big 
as as an ordinary White Pine, but I found one site that reported "over 40 
feet".

We do have lots of plants, about 1300 varieties in a smallish area.


Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donna" <gossiper@sbcglobal.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 8:46 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] now CES gardens was- and still sort of is- Pinus 
stobus'Contorta'


> Just how big is your CES display garden Kitty.... you sure have a zillion 
> and one plants there!
>
> Since we are similiar in climate and conditions, what kinda growth rate
> does it have? After reading a few things about it, I am thinking that
> spot is not going to be big enough for it ... sigh.
>
>
> Donna
>
> ----- Original Message ----
>
> We have a Pinus strobus 'Contorta' in our Conifer Garden at CES display
> gardens.  Very nice.  We also have Bhutan Pine, Pinus wallichiana 
> 'Zebrina'
> and a Dragon-Eye Pine, Pinus densiflora 'Oculus-draconis', that I think
> you'd dig.
>
> Kitty
> neIN, Zone 5
>
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