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Old 07-04-2009, 10:28 PM posted to rec.gardens
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Default question about river birch/kousa dogwood


"gardengal" wrote in message
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On Apr 7, 9:26 am, "brooklyn1" wrote:
"gardengal" wrote :

Clump birches are often "created" by the grower - they take multiple
saplings and plant them together in the same container or planting
hole, so they grow as if they were a multi-trunked tree. It's quite
common, as multi-trunked trees do not occur that way naturally with
great frequency.

That's just not true. The number of trunks of clump birch is created by
selective pruning, not by planting multiple trees (could be done but no
reputible nursery would, that would be cheating), planting a number of
birch
close together does not a clump birch make... usually only the most
dominant
will survive, the rest will eventually die.


So I guess 20+ years in the nursery industry, both in retail sales, as
a buyer and as a wholesale grower, speaks for nothing?



In 20 years you obviously learned nothing, and you never will learn
anything, because
those who think all knowledge begins and ends with their own are the most
ignorant. You're a verbose weasler is all... when you can't out think em
you out type em.