Re: [SG] trees

At 02:16 PM 2/20/99 EST, you wrote:
>In Zone 4/5, upper Hudson River valley in NYS, we have glorious autumns
>followed by five months of dormancy, bitter winds , and hopefully the right
>amount of snow to blanket our perennial beds.  If we are to enjoy these
months
>of winter we have to rely on our trees and shrubs to remind us that our
garden
>is there, just another and different kind of garden involvement.
>
>The mainstay of my winter garden is the evergreens - white pine, hemlock,
>balsam and juniper.  They glow against a snowy landscape, casting lavender
>shadows on a sunny day.  Since my land is flat, I have to create a balance
>with diagonal lines and this I do with a lot of looking out the window and a
>little creative pruning.
>
> Every fall I bring down hemlock and white pine seedlings, maybe 5-6" tall,
>from camp in the Adirondacks and I plant them in a  little yard-square
nursery
>I save for them.  Nothing happens for a year, but then they take off and I
>start pruning them.  After about three years I give them away at our Coop
Ext.
>Spring Swap - nice fat little babies, or - and this has been fun  -  I
"stool"
>them.  I cut off the leader, trim surrounding growth and wait another year -
>at which time they begin to fill in nicely.  I hate "lollypop shrubbery"
so I
>hand prune in late winter and always try to prune where there is an outward-
>facing bud - so you get two for one.

I hope you own the land from which you're digging tree seedlings.  That's
illegal on BLM or National Forest or Park property, and it's darned sure
illegal from tree farms operated by lumber companies.  Margaret L
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