Re: Red twig observation
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  • Subject: Re: Red twig observation
  • From: J* B* <j*@gmail.com>
  • Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 09:31:40 -0500
"Gloomisphere" I like that word.  I'll have to remember that one.....



On 5/11/10, BONNIE_HOLMES <bonnie_holmes@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> My red twig dogwood blooms and is blooming now. One is in the open; the
> other is understory. The understory does best.
>
> Bonnie
> ETN Zone 7
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Judy Browning" <judylee@lewiston.com>
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 2:20:35 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Red twig observation
>
> They like water, good drainage, air circulation and forest understory
> conditions.
> Some of the newer ones do thrive in direct sun. Could be the birch is
> keeping that one a little drier or hogging nutrients? Different varieties?
> Is one a C. kousa? I don't recall seeing redtwig dogwoods in bloom. Maybe
> you have a sport.
> ---- Original Message -----
> From: "james singer" <inlandjim1@q.com>
> To: "Garden Chat" <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 4:50 PM
> Subject: [CHAT] Red twig observation
>
>
> > There are two red twig dogwoods on the homestead here. They were planted
> > well before my sister bought the place so we have no clues about variety
> > [or varieties, as the case may be]. They are planted next to each other,
> > roughly 4 feet apart, on a line that runs pretty much east-west. The
> > plant that is the farthest west is under the drip line of a birch; the
> > other has no overhead cover. Mornings here are often [usually?] cloudy,
> > drizzly, and so on. Afternoons are frequently sunny. Usually by the time
> > the sun has broken through the gloomisphere, it has also passed beyond
> > the top of the birch--the upshot being that neither shrub gets very much
> > direct sunlight although the one under the birch dripline likely gets
> > slightly less ambient light throughout the day but both appear to grow up
> > and out at about the same rate. So here's the observation: The plant
> > under the dripline blooms like crazy and the other... not so much.
> >
> > Ideas?
> >
> >
> > Inland Jim
> > Willamette Valley
> >
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Jesse R. Bell

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