If its a woody tree, here are some pruing suggestions
http://www.treedictionary.com/DICT2003/tree_pruning/


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Sincerely,
John A. Keslick, Jr.
Consulting Arborist
http://home.ccil.org/~treeman
and www.treedictionary.com
Beware of so-called tree experts who do not understand tree biology.
Storms, fires, floods, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions keep reminding us
that we are not the boss.

"Travis" wrote in message
news:Lzovi.3291$r14.3000@trndny06...
Hey, Maddie here......
The heat wave here in Faerie Holler has produced more droughts, higher
prices in milk and bread due to grain prices the farmers are having to
pay, lower gasoline prices for whatever reason (!!?? probably in
preparation to Shrub's hike in Fed gas tax....) but the magenta screaming
watermelon pink crape myrtle is loaded with so many flowers it's leaning
over the fence into the pasture where i flung the black widow spider last
week and her eggs and kids and dead mate.......the white crape myrtle is
****ed at me because i never trimmed the dead bits back after the killing
freeze. but the fig tree is loaded and with all this heat, i might have
figs before October. one can hope.

I blew my grocery budget which is pennies as I'm not working yet, on a
sedum from Lowes knows how to drive me insane. Her name is Frosty
Morn.....she adores this heat.

There is one ginormous frog that is ugly as mud living in the Frog Holler
BBQ fountain. Ferns are thriving because the humidity is spoiling them
despite the heat. It's gotten up to 107o with gods knows what the heat
index is with the humidity (humidity?? in this drought? yeppers). Black
eyed susans, pinched back May knight salvia, Blue enigmas, towering 4's
and I'm gathering seeds to the yellow 4's frantically to share with anyone
wanting them. Zebrina great grand sisters are crispy on top with
thousands of seeds, but below, where I shoulda whacked it, new growth and
new flowers.

no sign of sweet Autumn clematis alas.....a reseeded petunia returned this
time in the pot of yellow Baptismia, fever few is everywhere and I have
one rare clump of snow on the mountain euphorbia I'm praying reseeds
everywhere next year. Poinsettia euphorbia is also everywhere, but I
adore the shots of orange in unexpected places. The hummer is frantically
supping on everything. And the other day he spotted the red and cream
flowers on the crown of thorns euphorbia house plant on the nook deck
railing and was flittering about all squacky and estatic.

Magenta phlox is winding down, so I pinched it, the white dwarf butterfly
bush gets pruned and the flowers are cranking out and providing sweet warm
honey scented flowers for all the floaters. Monarchs, Artillary, skippers,
varieties I have to hunt in the butterfly book to see who they are.....The
double althea in the back has three colors of double ruffled flowers
packed on the branches. I planted them together and it looks like one
bush........

Herbsonne Rudbeckia has reseeded all over but the finches adore the
flowers that nod and flop about like lazy teenagers. I see signs of fall
crocus or colchicums peeping up out of barren pots, the hosta's underneath
the black cherry tree are blowing me away and beginning to flower. The
lighter colors draw your eye as you pull in, but the mass of foliage is
what slaps you up side the head first.

The Cereus cactus has three buds, one is ripening at a fast pace thanks to
this heat and I hope it holds off for it's night debut and one night
performance until Tuesday.........Little sedums on the railings on the
kitchen deck are blush pink in the heat and sun, they look like toes, so
since I dug them in the sands of my sister in law's cottage yard, I'll
call them Michigan toes............gbseg

It's too hot for gardening, but I'm out there sweating buckets, which is
how I almost put my hand upon that black widow female last week. she had
made a nest underneath the pads of prickly pear I'd dug up from Miz Mary's
side where I'd planted them 11 years ago and had decided to plant them
around the mailbox with the rest. It's in the pasture and has been
trampled by the cows since Benton put them back over on my side again.

Downstairs, I have an invasion of Wolf spiders. Not poisonious, but scare
the hell outa me when they confront me and don't run quick enough. I
usually don't kill spiders (except Recluse and maybe a Widow if I had to)
but this has become an exception. The plants on the balcony are thriving
in the heat and humidity because they're the tropicals and adore this
environment. Soon enough it will be fall and time to think of bulbs and
perennials. I will be just hoping I can stay in Faerie Holler for a season
(year) and not be pushed to dig up and move my beloved plants. Despite my
obvious absence in the gardens, a lot of things go on without me,
including the Vinca major.......alas. it's thriving and growing feet per
day it seems. evil stuff......

I miss you all and the lack of communication, and each day is a blessing
when I wake to see the assorted winged dinosaurs at the front suet basket
moving the Heavy Metal grasses and Golden rod that I decided to let do
what it wanted to. The gardens are different again this year and I don't
mind. Soon there will be someone with as much passion as me who will
shape and mold the gardens with his hand and I will tell you when it comes
about. I wish you all well, and I love each one of you. Keep in touch as
best you can, send e-mails to and soon I hope
you'll see me on the newsgroup again! I have lots of pictures to share on
the binaries as well..........((((huge MADDIE HUG)))))))

madgardener, up on the steamy ridge, back in FAerie Holler overlooking a
hazy and almost obscurred English Mountain in Eastern Tennessee, zone 7,
Sunset zone 36
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Travis in Shoreline Washington