Re: update on garden/bottle brush

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• Subject: Re: [CHAT] update on garden/bottle brush
• From: &* K* <b*@ix.netcom.com>
• Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 07:56:29 -0700
• References: <E1AlkbK-00024H-00@albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net>

HEllo Donna,

    I had a beautiful Winter King growing outside the garden Center window
in Terre Haute In. The robins and cedar waxwings loved the huge clusters of
red-orange berries. In fact the waxwing flock cleaned the entire tree in
about 15 minutes.

I think this is a great tree.

betsy
colorado
only 1 1/2" of snow from the weekend boo hoo
>
> On the deciduous end, Chris wrote a Plant of the Month article about
> Crataegus viridis 'Winter King'  (hawthorn) that makes it sound a
> most interesting plant if you wanted to use something more tree like
> - and I think hawthorns can be pruned to hedges as well.   I don't
> know if birds like the berrys, but it sure seems a 4-season plant.
> I've never grown one; can't actually say I've ever seen one; don't
> think they like my climate.
>
> http://www.hort.net/profile/ros/craviwk/
>
> Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
> mtalt@hort.net
> Editor:  Gardening in Shade

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