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[Slinglings]

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Great! Let me know when you would like to come over. I'm home during the afternoons, as well as on most weekends. If you don't have a large vehicle to transport it, we could prune the limbs back (I've cut the two that I planted behind the garage down to short stumps, and they will grow 6 feet in a season, easily) or I can drive it over in my van.

Jennifer

I have a van and have actually dug up and moved one of these before a couple years ago. I pruned it way back before digging it up, but I think that I didn't dig up enough roots or didn't water it enough, or didn't prepare the hole enough because it didn't survive. It was transplanted in spring/summer. I think fall transplants work out better for me. AND my front yard is all freshly tilled and ready for planting. I could come up Tuesday or Thursday during school hours. Send me a message...

 

[hallerlake]

*If* I get someone to help me dig (which: not so awfully likely) and IF Deirdre has room, I may be able to bring some lilacs and Carolina Alspice to Chehalis, but in general, if anyone wants what I can give, that means they need to come and dig. I do have shovels, spading forks, and pots if you don't want to deal with bare root plants, but I am outnumbered by garden these days.

The trick is I've got birds I'm bringing birds for people and a third person who wants to carpool with us.

 

[hallerlake]

this was directed at ItsRen--- I would take either of your trees, and I think now is actually a good time to move plants in this area? I have a tree called a golden *chain* tree, I wonder if it's the same thing? It is covered in yellow strings of flowers for a few weeks in summer, the bees love it.

Golden Chain tree is laburnum. Golden Rain tree is Koelreuteria paniculata.

 

[RaZ]

Ok, just this part made me laugh with how much has been coming down lately. Sorry.

Glad you laughed. I tend to forget that you folks get tons of rain. I haven't seen a drop in weeks, even though the hurricane brought rain everywhere else.

Golden Chain tree is laburnum. Golden Rain tree is Koelreuteria paniculata.

According to the USDA, this tree has not been documented in the NW. But that is not to say that it isn't there.
Anyone know of a good book for trees of the Pacific Northwest?

 

[itsren]

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That's a good idea. The greenhouse has a hole with a flap for a hose to go through. I could run an extension cord through it and find a way to hang the heat lamp. They will definitely be supervised.

The grass is wet, or I'd do it right now. Hopefully it will dry off in this beautiful morning sunshine.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

*If* I get someone to help me dig (which: not so awfully likely) and IF Deirdre has room, I may be able to bring some lilacs and Carolina Alspice to Chehalis, but in general, if anyone wants what I can give, that means they need to come and dig. I do have shovels, spading forks, and pots if you don't want to deal with bare root plants, but I am outnumbered by garden these days.

Explain this Carolina Allspice...it is a bush, a small tree, does it have spice/seeds ?

I was grouching about it back along, it's this flower:

which, in seedlings, may or may not be skunky (the scent does not breed true, and is not a simple SS/ss/Ss thing) the leaves and wood are alspice scented, and I planted it for use in potpourri, back when I did that as a Farmer's Market vendor.. It's a nice understory shrub, with bright yellow fall color.

Also, looking out the window, avilable for the digging: Pineapple quince (root suckers, but this is not a grafted plant), at least one or two Hamamellis mollis (Yellow Witchhazel), species Siberian Iris, and two thuggish shrub honeysuckles, Lonicera fragrantissma and Lonisera amurensis, both of which would be grand parts of a mixed barrier hedge and have edible berries that the tweety birds like. And oregano, God save us all, I can contribute oregano to feed all the bees there are in August. Several very nice if prone to root- running geraniums which I can share but am not actively trying to get shed of, and one horribe thug which I'd only recommend if you're trying to green up a traffic calming circle (Claridge Druce). Speaking of horrible thugs: Summer Wood, an insect-discouraging artemesia, and Motherwort, a nice friendly calmer and encourager of milk flow and bearer of beastly seed-burs. I'm encouraging mints and lemon-balm for the chickens, so that's what's going into any holes I can encourage.

I also have a bunch of bearded iris in gallon and two gallon pots which need rescued and sent on to real homes, because as much as I love them they're too much work to keep weeded when I am not supposed to lean over and my knees and hips have lost their "squat" gear.

OH: and for the crazy-brave, I have a Long John Silver climber in a pot which has reached the point where next fall it will be setting off 10-20 foot long canes and getting ready to bloom its head off. Would do well on an ugly fence or outbuilding but would not put another one on a house.

(Multiply by a thousand or so, blooms from late june until August-ish)

 

[itsren]

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I have some suckers I haven't cut off. I could dig 'em. This picture doesn't show the thick branches because I was looking up at the blooms. And, of course, it's not in bloom right now.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Both of the SLRWs have single combs (which happens, alas, as my SSHs showed me) but they're most easily sexed by looking at their body feathers, and probably not until they're older. Wyandottes take a LONG time to mature. The BLRWs in this picture are twelve weeks:

Okay, I was wondering if it was just a different kind of comb. I'm not too concerned about the comb being wrong, I don't consider single combs to be ugly and I'm not going to show them. Last night I watched them some more, and Tandoori's comb was looking pretty red. The 3 biggest Wyandottes were all squabbling and the rest of the chicks were just trying to get out of the way. As soon as Tandoori is fully feathered she may be going out to a friend's flock in Carnation.

Around what age should I be able to tell if they are cockerels?

Thank you!!

Jennifer

10-12 weeks is when you can be sure; the biggest early signs are the different back markings, though, cockerels have a "cape" of different pattern over their shoulders while pullets are evenly marked below the neck.

 

[Nikki99]

I hope you take time to watch the video.
It gives a good background of how this all started.
My Family has been supporting Wreaths Across America for a few years since I saw it at another forum.

Couple years ago I bought their "Thank You" cards at link below.
When you meet a Vet or see they are one I always ask to be sure cause some wear caps and they aren't one.
I have got out of my van at stop lights after seeing bumper stickers and gave them a card.
They are blown away that people still care.
http://www.wreathsacrossamerica.org/store/service-appreciation-cards/

Here you can find the locations for Washington State.................
http://www.wreathsacrossamerica.org/locations/

Thank you for posting this video and info! Watching this made me eyes watery a few times. My family and I will definitely be looking further into this to see how we can contribute.
I also saved the link you posted to get some of those thank you cards. My husband is a veteran of OIF 1 (Operation Iraqi Freedom after Sept. 11th.). Ever sense he's been out of the military, we've had military plates. One day a man noticed that in the parking lot of Walmart. A total stranger noticed. He approached us with what we thought was a business card but it was a military appreciation card. He handed it to my husband and thanked him. That was 2005, we still have the card on our bulletin board. We will never forget that.
So, thank you for posting this, now we can "pay it forward".

 

[itsren]

this was directed at ItsRen--- I would take either of your trees, and I think now is actually a good time to move plants in this area? I have a tree called a golden *chain* tree, I wonder if it's the same thing? It is covered in yellow strings of flowers for a few weeks in summer, the bees love it.

I'm not sure about the chain part - the paperwork that came with it said Golden Rain Tree. Let me see if I can find a link to a bigger tree online. Mine is still young, and too small to bloom.

Here try this. http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=image&fr=mcafee&va=Golden+Rain+Tree

It is supposed to grow to be a big tree - way too big for our yard.

And the Red Bud is the kind you typically see in neighborhoods. It's very slow to grow. http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=image&fr=mcafee&va=Red+bud

Are you going to be in Chehalis?