On Nov 2, 9:11�am, kenji wrote:
In article z,
�barbie gee wrote:





On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, Gregory Morrow wrote:

Newbie wrote:

Not for you apartment dwellers, but for those who are into gardening....

Leaving aside Chalet, Lurvy's, and Pesche's, which I have already
checked (and they do have some good deals), are there any great "end of
seasin" plant sales worth driving to that you know of? Up to 90 minute
drive from Chicago would be ok. Must have decent stock left to choose
from, and rock bottom clearance prices! Thanks.

Ask barb...I think she said she gets most of her stuff from those planters
on Michigan Avenue...

;-p

hardee harr har.

oh, hey, who knows of any Japanese maples around town that have got seed
pods on them? �I want to try my hand at growing some from seed.

that's gonna take a long time. Yer what 50+? You'll be into getting SS
checks by the time it's 4 feet tall.

Just drop the 100 bucks and get a six foot one already pruned.

Very good advice. Most Japanese maples grow so slowly that before
they are 4' tall his kids will be collecting SS. Japanese maple is
one of those trees that the older it gets the more slowly it grows...
it can reach 2' within ten years but need another twenty years to grow
the next foot, and another thirty years to grow the next foot. So a
Japanese maple planted from seed can easily take sixty years to grow
4'. And to have one true to form you pretty much need to buy one
that's grafted. At my last residence my next door neighbor had
planted a 4' Japanese maple in his front yard when he first moved in,
he was an original owner and moved into a brand new house. He retired
and moved more than forty years later and his tree was only about 7-8
feet tall but nearly twice as wide, a very nice looking specimen
tree. I only lived there 15 years and hardly noticed that tree grew
at all. I don't recommend planting a Japanee maple seed and actually
expect a tree within ones life time. Even relatively fast growing
trees when planted as saplings will take a lifetime before they can
legitimately be called a tree... anyone wants fast growing plant grass
and vegetables.