Re: Apple rootstocks or Crabapples

> Thanks Chris and Mark. You give me hope! We have several native Crataegus
> species  and native Prunus on our property. I'll have to hit the nurseries
> in Chicago the next time I visit my brother. He's not into plants or I'd
> call him and have him ship some to plant now. Or do you know of a good
> mailorder source? Got some seedlings? ;-)

Presumably Klehm's Nursery in Rockford, IL would have 'Klehm's Improved
Bechtel' / 'Klehmi'.  Make a day of it -- head North across the Wisconsin
border to Longenecker Gardens...  From there, head West to the
Bickelhaupt Arboretum, a privately held, 12-acre place with a great
collection of dwarf conifers...  Then swing back through Rockford on
your way home, visiting Klehm's and the Arboretum that they're putting
together.

Yes, that's right...  I've made this trip before.  :)

The only other source that I can locate that's not wholesale is Green
Acres Nursery at

   http://www.greenacresnursery.com/

I have to share the story behind 'Klehm's Improved Bechtel' too, just 
because I think it's funny every time that I read it.  :)

From Fr. John Fiala's book again:

   "According to Roy Klehm, his Uncle Clyde was sitting on a park
   bench with the young lady he was dating when he saw this unique plant
   blossoming in a group of native crabapples.  Having no way to mark the
   plant, the young lady tore a piece of the lace from her petticoat.
   Thus marked, Clyde returned to the tree in the fall for scionwood.
   Although the plant was named after the Klehms, not the young lady,
   years later Roy Klehm memorialized the unknown young lady by naming
   a Hemerocallis 'Pink Petticoat'.

Chris

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