Surviving Minnesota!

[jerryse]

Rainy day here . Hey how far north are redbud trees . I will include a pic of one not fully open blooms .

 

[ebrockman]

Rainy day here . Hey how far north are redbud trees . I will include a pic of one not fully open blooms .View attachment 2609954

Jerry, as relates to Redbuds, they are hardy as far North as the Twin Cities I believe? I had them at my place when I lived in Iowa. If I could find one hardy this far North I would have had one long ago. I have never even seen one near the shore of the lake in Duluth or Superior, and that is approximately a hardiness zone above the hinterlands here.
Hope you are on the mend and soon back to normal!

 

[duluthralphie]

I found a “Minnesota Strain” of Redbuds.
They appear to be hardy to zone 4.

However, I don’t think I have ever seen one around here.

I am in Zone 4a.

 

[jerryse]

You can often push zones to one zone colder . Due to the fact that weather will sometimes go colder on rare occasions . Zone 5 to -20 here but a couple of years ago we hit -27 . Most plants survived with little damage .

We have sunshine today and a dry week ahead .

 

[ebrockman]

We have rain here this morning and a couple more days of it according to the forecast?
Central Iowa is zone 5 and I do miss the redbuds, cherry trees, shagbark hickory and Japanese maple. There may be a strain of hickory that is hardy here, but I have not found it.

 

[duluthralphie]

We have rain here this morning and a couple more days of it according to the forecast?
Central Iowa is zone 5 and I do miss the redbuds, cherry trees, shagbark hickory and Japanese maple. There may be a strain of hickory that is hardy here, but I have not found it.

Now I have to look up Japanese Maple.

Is the butternut a hickory? We use to have a few around here, but I haven’t seen one in decades now.

 

[hmarg06]

We have some butternut by us, but I don't think many anymore. My mom remembers many more trees when she was younger. I'm almost as far south as you can go in MN.

 

[jerryse]

Now I have to look up Japanese Maple.

Is the butternut a hickory? We use to have a few around here, but I haven’t seen one in decades now.

They are walnuts . The most cold hardy of the walnuts . Rare due to butternut canker disease .

 

[duluthralphie]

Last year I planted way too early. This year I might be too late.

I have everything started now. I just don’t want too big of plants when I transplant.

We should be close to frost free in 6 weeks. Maybe

 

[ebrockman]

Ralphie, I would suspect that you might find a Japanese Maple that is hardy in your zone there. The closest I can come up here is a Korean Maple which is nice but not in the same class as Japanese.