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Magnolia or other Tree suggestions
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 10:47:17 -0400, Peter wrote:
Thanks for the info and links.... Your're correct about the temperature.... instead of -20 it was -10 BELOW zero actual temperature including wind chill factor. (Columbia is about 20 miles north of D.C.) That was this past January / February 2003.... I remember getting a lot of calls warning me about the freeze and spending a few hours freezing my buns off trying to cover plants that had not been mulched for the winter. This included a dozen or so newly planted protected carmellia's hardy to 20 degrees. Darned that night was cold. Matter of fact, the next few days were also frigid. The carmellia's didn't survive, pulled them up, put them in storage and some are beginning to get leaves again. I did get a chance to look at some magnolia's.... for some strange reason I thought they were canopied tree's....(wonder where that idea came from). Still open to some suggestions about small canopied evergreen tree's. The plan for the center circle includes two park benchs that we'd like to shade... (all we need is a concrete checkers board to complete the image !!) Thanks again for the help...already found a few magnolia's for the backyard !!! You can't imagine how much research I've been doing on DC/Columbia/Baltimore weather. And even so, failed to read your inclusion of "wind chill." I *did* find that apparently the all-time record low *somewhere* in MD was -32 in like 1913 -- NOAA stats aren't exactly in a neat, comprehensive database. Sorry about the camellias. My giant bush (N. side of house) suffered considerably in 2 consecutive hard winters (SE VA -- south of you) some years ago, but came back and is once more threatening to shade 2nd story windows. Prune, prune, prune. I'm not good with suggestions for trees. Magnolias seem pretty fast-growing to me, but then time passes more and more quickly these days. If you want to provide shade for your benches, it may be a good choice. My Neighborhood Association has just planted 'decorative' benches at Bayside overlooks -- no trees. There are about 20 minutes each spring and fall when such an open location is humanly bearable, but they *are* awfully pretty. :-) |
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