lms wrote:
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[Dr. Brownell]
Didja kill the first one?
oh no, it didn't croak, it's immense and symmetrical, absolutely unfazed by
winter and truly stunning in blum.
Vintage has it OR, which is *very* tempting. Though I seem to have I've
lost my Vintage list.
another Sunsprite,
I still don't share your enthusiasm for this one. It just blows so
fast.
a dozen years ago I planted
a second Sunsprite that to this day (as far as I know) is only a few inches
high,
Which goes to show, it can be impossible to gauge the worth of a plant
from just one runty recluse.
and has never gotten above this level. Totally beyond me how
it's done this, but it won't die and I keep it as a 'study'.
yeah, I have a few of those. Eventually I usually plant something else
too near it and it finally fades away completely. And the one cane
wonders. I can only ask why, but have no answers.
Actually, there's no reason why I keep it,
other than the fact that I'd probably kill something
else, like the columbine that keeps it that small heheh or the daffs and tulips
beneath if I 'did' anything about it. live and let live you know.
So how are your larkspur?
[Cass wrote}
which taught me a thing or two about pruning this year. I BR'd mine to
redecorate, and I'll be damned if it doesn't look soooo much better
after the vicious attack of cutting all the canes back to about a foot.
hmmmph. Well I've kept this very interesting comment of yours firmly in
mind ever since I read it. Yesterday I hacked back some stuff pretty
mercilessly that I've considered treating this way for several years
now, but have wimped out every time, til now. Cut back harder! I know
I need to cut back harder.
As the plants get thoroughly leafed out, it gets ever more traumatic to
cut off all that stuff that is looking so perfectly good. But I DID it,
thanks Cass. Yesterday.
Mount Hood, Saint Patrick, Sheila's Perfume - all planted in a fairly
shady spot so gangly as all get out. I felt that the taller, the better
to reach the sun, but it had to be done. Now I wait. Grow, GROW
dammit.
So, what will I hack today?
the landscape is noticeably different this year, even the horseshoers noticed
it, said things looked more 'open' for some reason. yeah, new chainsaw.
ooooh, what did ya get? That's my next purchase, after a couple of
months of playing Chainsaw 101 with a Stihl that is too far away to use
here.
more
horsepower. the first time I fired it up was on this 20' cottonwood branch,
god knows how much it weighed,
jeez, the potential is awesome, ain't it?
but I was bracing myself about 10' up on the
ladder, and when it dropped with the mightiest craaaaaaack, it came back on
me and knocked the breath outa me as it glanced off my chest,
MACK!!
then my arms,
then my leg, didn't get me anywhere. half an inch closer god knows what kinda
gaping holes I'd have
Yes!!!
where but I got down and had a good laugh and felt real
good about my new toy. I *did go reread the instructions
I read the book for the Stihl all the way through three times before I
even fired that thing up. I am such a chicken. But sheesh, I've lived
in logging country. I know just how dangerous this stuff can be.
You keeping your chipper busy? I got everything sharpened this spring,
and boy what a difference.
another Paul McCartney, Barbara Streisand, Amalia, some kinda
'Autumn' gd climber, and Fire Meidelland. That oughta do me.
no way. There are so many more roses you need, I am positive.
Regina