Re: Spring?
gardenchat@hort.net
  • Subject: Re: Spring?
  • From: B* <b*@comcast.net>
  • Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 01:20:12 +0000 (UTC)
If you remind me in the fall, I can send you some redbud to plant. I have seedlings all over the place. 

B 
ETN Zone 7 
Remember the River Raisin, the Alamo, the Maine, Pearl Harbor, 911. 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Aplfgcnys@aol.com 
To: gardenchat@hort.net 
Sent: Monday, May 2, 2011 6:57:21 AM 
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Spring? 

That sounds like you have lost them, too, so maybe it's just the 
nature of the tree not to be long-lived. There are a couple of suckers 
from this one, so maybe we will have a tree again someday. 
APL 

In a message dated 5/1/2011 11:55:45 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
pdickson@sbcglobal.net writes: 

Sometimes I have had redbud trees come back from the root. It takes a 
while 
but they seem to be stronger since the roots are strong. 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Aplfgcnys@aol.com> 
To: <gardenchat@hort.net> 
Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2011 5:52 PM 
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Spring? 


> Spring finally seems in full swing here. The sun has finally put in 
> an appearance for a couple of days. It's not really warm, but nice 
> enough to be out without heavy coats - 60s and not too windy. 
> 
> I've had my hands full making up the folders, exams, etc. for our 
> Horticulture School this coming week, I have neglected the garden 
> dreadfully, but finally got my onions in this afternoon. Of course, here, 
> with spring weather you get shad flies which make itvery uncomfortable 
> to be out very long. 
> 
> All the fruit trees are in full bloom. The dogwoods look much better than 
> last year. The magnolia, for once, made a good showing without being 
> frost-bitten. Most years we have a frost just as the buds are opening, 
> and 
> they are all blackened. One very sad note, however, is that my redbud 
> (Cercis canadensis) seems to be completely dead. It was especially 
> nice last year, so I can't imagine what did it in, unless it was the 
> extremely 
> cold weather. Most of my perennials came through the winter in 
> surprisingly 
> good shape, which I attribute to the very thick snow cover that we had all 
> winter long. Since the redbud was above the snow, maybe it just isn't 
> that hardy. 
> 
> APL 

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