Re: Gene's greenhouse NOW Sycamore

Plant parsley & fennel - they're host plants for the swallowtail
caterpillars.
I lots of them every year.


On 1/20/06, Johnson Cyndi D Civ 95 CG/SCSRT <cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil>
wrote:
>
> Around here they are a great shade tree. I love mine in the summer, I have
> a
> chair hammock suspended from one branch and I sit under the tree watching
> a
> couple hummingbirds flit about, listening to the pond fountain. The bits
> of
> stuff that drop off aren't a problem for me, either they drop into the
> front
> garden and vanish or I chew 'em up with the lawnmower. The bark can be
> lovely as it peels off, showing all sorts of dull green to deep brown
> shades. I hear they are food for swallowtail butterflies - sure wish with
> my
> six sycamores I'd see more than two swallowtails a year. But they do have
> their drawbacks. Mine always seem to be full of whiteflies by summer's
> end.
> They don't have any fall color; the leaves turn a dull brown and hang onto
> the tree for a long time. The dead leaves once off don't make any attempt
> to
> break down or decompose, they just pile up in huge drifts (maybe if I
> lived
> in a wetter climate it would be different). I do have one that is now
> showing signs of anthracnose, not so good. I have to have them
> professionally trimmed every two years, which is expensive.
> If I lived somewhere else I probably wouldn't plant one as close to the
> house as mine are now, but I probably would put one in where I could sit
> under it in the summer.
>
> Cyndi
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
> Behalf
> Of Cathy Carpenter
> Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 5:27 PM
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Gene's greenhouse NOW Sycamore
>
> They are a messy tree. I am forever picking up bark, twigs, and seed
> pods all over the back yard. Not to mention the anthracnose that
> afflicts sycamores almost every spring.
>
> Cathy, west central IL, z5b
>
> On Jan 19, 2006, at 5:20 PM, Zemuly Sanders wrote:
>
> > Bonnie, I'll be on the lookout for some in my flowerbeds this
> > spring.  I love them, too.  I transplanted one to my yard last
> > year, but I don't have room for any more.  I hate to pull them out
> > and throw them away.  I'll let you know what comes up.
> > zem
> > zone 7
> > West TN
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bonnie Holmes" <holmesbm@usit.net>
> > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 4:29 PM
> > Subject: RE: [CHAT] Gene's greenhouse
> >
> >
> >> Do you have any seedlings?  I am trying to get some sycamores to
> >> grow on
> >> our property.  We purchased one...only one area nursery had one for
> >> sale...my DH and I think they are beautiful.
> >> Bonnie ETN Zone 7
> >>
> >>
> >>> [Original Message]
> >>> From: Johnson Cyndi D Civ 95 CG/SCSRT <cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil>
> >>> To: gardenchat@hort.net <gardenchat@hort.net>
> >>> Date: 1/18/2006 11:59:05 AM
> >>> Subject: RE: [CHAT] Gene's greenhouse
> >>>
> >>> It doesn't get cold enough where I live to need real heat inside the
> >>> greenhouse. I put in 3 big plastic drums full of water, figuring
> >>> it would
> >> be
> >>> a kind of thermal buffer for when the temps drop. I guess it works.
> >>> Sometimes if it is forecasted to get seriously cold I'll run a
> >>> little
> >> floor
> >>> heater at night. What I should have done is buy a bigger fan.
> >>> Even in
> >>> winter, when the sun is out it gets hot in there, upwards of 90F.
> >>> By the
> >> end
> >>> of March I've moved everything outside. Mid-summer it will get
> >>> over 120F
> >>> (comes in handy if you need to dehydrate veggies or fruit leather).
> >>> I have a dilemma now though. When we sited the greenhouse there
> >>> was this
> >>> small struggling sycamore nearby. It was a side of our yard we
> >>> didn't use
> >>> much, didn't irrigate. I didn't figure the sycamore would cause a
> >> problem. I
> >>> guess it got enough water from what drips onto the greenhouse floor
> >> because
> >>> it got big in a hurry. Now it shades the greenhouse quite a bit
> >>> when I
> >> bring
> >>> in plants end of October, and here the dead leaves hang on the
> >>> sycamore
> >> for
> >>> months unless there's a really big wind. On the plus side, most
> >>> of what I
> >>> bring inside is the stuff from my patio which has been in partial
> >>> shade
> >> all
> >>> summer anyway. But the tree is not going to get smaller...so I
> >>> need to
> >>> decide what to do about it.
> >>>
> >>> Cyndi
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [mailto:owner-
> >>> gardenchat@hort.net] On
> >> Behalf
> >>> Of Cornergar@aol.com
> >>> Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 7:14 AM
> >>> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> >>> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Gene's greenhouse
> >>>
> >>> I think I am grateful now that I made the decision to go passive
> >>> solar
> >> only
> >>> in my grnhse so I do not have any gas bills. I do have power so
> >>> in really
> >>> extreme weather I can leave lights on for enough additional
> >>> warmth to keep
> >>> from
> >>> losing everything. It seldom gets below 28F even with several
> >>> cloudy 0
> >>> degree
> >>> days in a row. Of course I'm not really "growing" anything...just
> >>> holding.
> >>> But it
> >>> works for holding the more tender things in 1 gal pots and I can
> >>> be out
> >>> there
> >>> potting up plugs and bare root in Feb. Don't have running water
> >>> 'tho which
> >>> is
> >>> sort of a pain but do-able. By the end of Mar I'm bursting at the
> >>> seams
> >> but
> >>> by then I can start hardening off which isn't too difficult as
> >>> the pots
> >> have
> >>>
> >>> been subject to a hard life already! Am still anxious to try
> >>> hypertufa.
> >> It's
> >>> a
> >>> New Years resolution! I like this time of year..Anticipation is
> >>> high ( and
> >>> the
> >>> body doesn't hurt too much yet). kathy
> >>>
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX
zone 8A

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