RE: perennials DIGEST V3 #39

The yellow tips are so distinct -- it was like a beacon in the bleak winter weather at the nursery -- I'm surprised it is not listed "somewhere."  But as the nurseryman said to me -- they have come out with so many new cultivars lately that they really don't "know" how big they are going to get yet!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: OXFORDWALT@aol.com [O*@aol.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 6:04 AM
> To: perennials@hort.net
> Subject: Re: perennials DIGEST V3 #39
> 
> 
> In a message dated 1/27/2004 12:01:57 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
> perennials-owner@hort.net writes:
> 
> 
> > j. s. "Moonglow
> 
> In Gardening With Conifers by Adrian Bloom, he lists 
> Juniperus scopulorum 
> 'Moonglow" as "one of the more reliable cultivars in cooler 
> climates ( zones 4-7 
> ) forming a broad, densely foliaged coulumn with erect 
> branches, bearing more 
> semi-juvenile feathery foliage than most.  It is a bright 
> silver blue in 
> summer, more steel blue in winter and best in full sun."  
> height 6-8 ft   width 
> 12-18 inches with ultimate height at 26-33 ft and width at 
> 24-36 inches.  There 
> is no mention of a 'variegated" form.  And I could not find 
> one at the ACS 
> website database http://www.conifersociety.org/
> Hmm.  I don't get "forming a broad" ,etc. when it's only 
> 12/18 inches.  
> Perhaps we should say not broad, but rather slender. 
> In Bucks County, Walter
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