Re: training as a standard
- Subject: Re: training as a standard
- From: D* M*
- Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 03:15:56 -0500
>In a message dated 8/3/01 8:47:06 PM Eastern Daylight Time, llmen@execpc.com
>writes:
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> You can take advantage of these straight stems if the plant is young
> enough (works best if from seed) to work up Rose of Sharon (Hybiscus
> syriacus) as a single stem into a nice, small tree.
>At 3:01 AM -0500 8/4/01, Claire Peplowski wrote:
>>I absolutely love this idea. I have done it with a tatarica honeysuckle to
>>keep it in the garden and leave some room for a few other things. I did
>>not think of doing other shrubs. Rose of Sharon next! Thank you so much for
>>the pic - a really good job.
Have you ever seen the Forsythia that Wayside Gardens offers that
has been trained into a standard?
http://www.execpc.com/~llmen/stdforsythia.jpg
I'm really not a fan of Forsythia because of their bush habit, but
this is neat. I wonder if they had to do a graft to obtain the
standard (upright) portion of the stem.
The idea with the tatarian honeysuckle sounds nice also, except for
the problems we have here in the Midwest with the Russian Honeysuckle
Aphid, which is leading lots of folks away from L. tatarica (I don't
know if there are any resistant varieties). Not fatal, but very
disfiguring.
Do you have any photos?
Don Martinson
Milwaukee, WI
<yes, I know, this all belongs on the Wood Plant list, but...>
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