Re: Heating the indoors, the yard outside,too...and a question...

Marge, as I'm sure you don't need me to tell you, dwarf in these plants 
refers to rate of growth rather than ultimate size.  The definition I have been 
given is a growth-rate of 3-6" a year.  The Mugho pine we just had to remove had 
been there for 34 years, and despite my pruning, had reached 10 feet in each 
dimension, which is just about on target.It sounds as if yours has grown a bit 
faster than that - 28 years shouldn't be more than 14 feet plus the original 
30" - 2 /12 feet more makes 16 1/2 feet,  That's still pretty big.  Isn't it 
frustrating when the problem arises just because the plants are doing well.
Auralie

In a message dated 10/17/2004 3:15:14 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
mtalt@hort.net writes:
Well, Bonnie, I don't grow your particular cultivar - which I read is
a dwarf form, so should stay smaller than the Chamaecyparis pisifera
'Filifera Nana' that I have.  Mine, after about 28 years in the
garden are working on being 20' tall and trying to completely close
in over the steps to the front patio, despite my continual pecking
away at them.  Extremely lovely conifers; natural wide cone shape.  I
think mine were about 30" tall when I got them and they got moved
once after I'd had them about 3 years.

I thought 'Nana' meant small...if it does, I wonder what size the
non-nana get to be?

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