Re: Out of Scope - Altitude Trees?

 >>>>>>Apparently this fellow never heard of "timberline." Margaret L

Well above a typical timberline you can find small very charming scattered 
groupings and isolated specimens of trees called krummholz.  They are 
especially beautiful and I am totally sentimental about 
them.  Mountaineering was a hobby of mine in my wild youth <g>. On top of 
that (eee, bad pun) I spent twenty years land surveying in the high 
country.  The trees are very old and stunted by wind, exposure, and short 
growing season.  Maybe this is the very charming alpine look that this 
person is seeking.  A couple of leads for info....Don Howse of Porterhowse 
Farms is very knowledgeable about both dwarf conifers and high altitude 
trees in general. Their website is at:

http://www.porterhowse.com/about.htm

It has some articles in the form of downloadable files.

Their e-mail is:

Phfarm@aol.com

Some dwarf conifers are spendy, but they last forever and once established 
are truly "low maintenance".

The archives of Alpine-L are public and may have some discussions about 
high altitude trees.  Check them out at:

http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/alpine-l.html

If this interests Ben, but he does not find the information that he seeks 
in the archives, there is a click-on at this page that will bring up a 
fill-in screen to join the list and ask questions there.

Dwarf conifers range in size from small mounds that never exceed a foot or 
two that some rock and alpine gardeners are so crazy about all the way to 
the relative dwarfs that may eventually reach fifty feet.  In some cases 
the "dwarf" is the 40 foot cultivar of a tree that would naturally attain a 
hundred feet or more.  Some of the easier cultivars are very popular for 
public landscaping. There are plenty of easier ones in the range of ten or 
fifteen feet.  I wouldn't imagine that anything too small is desirable 
since the skiers would "find" it.  I am famous for this.  Just a couple of 
weeks ago I managed to slither into the well of the only tree in sight 
while cross-country skiing ~above timberline.  ::wink::

Hope that this helps and that your move is going smoothly, Duncan.  Those 
Bobcats are fun, but watch out!  They roll easily.  ~Take care.

Cheers,  Louise
Corvallis, ORegon US
Cool Mediterranean



   

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