RE: update on garden/bottle brush

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• To: <g*@hort.net>
• Subject: RE: [CHAT] update on garden/bottle brush
• From: &* &* <j*@prairieinet.net>
• Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 20:55:55 -0600
• In-reply-to: <073c01c3e5ae$ea364040$bff2d33f@oemcomputer>

I skimmer thru the hort page and it sounded wonderful. But I think it
would be too large for the space I am trying to plant. Maybe in another
area...

Donna


> 
> 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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