Washingtonians

[Chicken Rustler]

So where doe Quincy fit in the pecking order?

Well he aint built like a chicken so he is at the bottom. Actually They get along well. See Pierre has no concerns about Quincy. And Quincy has total respect for our birds. Now wild birds that is a whole different story.

 

[Kaneke]

I want it to be 70º year round. and rain only at night 3 days or less a week. am I asking too much ?

The rain may never fall 'till after sundown.  And then must stop precisely 5 am....

 

sounds like some of the lyrics to CAMELOT ...

hey, our area of Maui, gets a little bit warmer than that (though rarely over 78, about 10* cooler than at sea level) .. a cccoolld night is 59*, and it does rain a bit occasionally, depends on where you are on the island ... but the rain is warm .....

 

[Stumpfarmer]

My father's 15 foot tall & 15 foot wide Magnolia tree was dropped to the soil...still held it's 2" buds, unopened and after Dad brushed as much ice off, slowly the magnolia is reaching back up.
I cannot tell you how beautiful this magnolia is~~~~~~~~I MUST HAVE STARTS of this tree.
Dad hates it as it is so dense & gatheres so much snow It breaks off & creates problems.....it is a huge gorgeous thing!
That and he gave me 8 new red leaf maple starts..these are TALL red leaf maples, topping at about 12 feet.
Laced leaf,
AND he gave me another 2  Hazelnut trees, barerooted, one is BIG on top the tree is 12" the other is but a twig~
I also have 6 Curly Willow starts 1 year old and about 6 foot tall, free to good homes.

I love Magnolias, but only have five; I want the summer-blooming kind (M.watsonii or M. wilsonii) but the rabbits will do anything to get to them, tearing down yard-fence and digging under it.

The Merril has come back from a bad hit before, but I'm unhappy about loosing two huge, bud-laden tops.


March 5, 2010:

 

[Chickielady]

Nary a worry doll! Life is to live and have fun! It is far to short to do otherwise.

Aye !

 

[Chickielady]

I love Magnolias, but only have five; I want the summer-blooming kind (M.watsonii or M. wilsonii) but the rabbits will do anything to get to them, tearing down yard-fence and digging under it.
The Merril has come back from a bad hit before, but I'm unhappy about loosing two huge, bud-laden tops.
March 5, 2010:

Want some starts?
Dad is more than willing for someone, anyone to de-thicken this tree.........and it is absolutely breathtaking when it blooms.
lemme know~

 

[hallerlake]

Quote: You did??

 

[Kaneke]

I love Magnolias, but only have five; I want the summer-blooming kind (M.watsonii or M. wilsonii) but the rabbits will do anything to get to them, tearing down yard-fence and digging under it.

The Merril has come back from a bad hit before, but I'm unhappy about loosing two huge, bud-laden tops.

March 5, 2010:

Want some starts?
Dad is more than willing for someone, anyone to de-thicken this tree.........and it is absolutely breathtaking when it blooms.
lemme know~

I dearly love both Magnolia soulangeana "tulip tree" and Magnolia stellata "star magnolia" but have come to realize the air, sun exposure, and soil out here are just not enough for them ... too much freezing in the winter, too much wind, too much sun in the summer, not enough organic matter in the soil, even when "enriched" -- I have bought about ten of them and all have died within months

 

[Stumpfarmer]

...

Hey Stumpfarmer did ya get the message that I called to check on ya last eve? CL gave me yer sisters #. Said it was the only one she had.

Nope, sorry; she called this morning, too, to see if I had power on but she was in the middle of cooking pancakes.

I called hallerlake Friday morning (I think: the days got confused, there, with the dark and the cold) but my cell was dying, and by the time we got a plug-in phone I was too tired to talk. We were melting ice to get water for the dogs, cats, chickens, and sheep, and less clean source snow for flushing toilets. Since my husband isn't supposed to do much lifting, I did most of the collection of the frozen water, plus feeding the chooks and keeping the sheep company and cooking in the dark, ugh.

Another photo: the driveway at 4:30pm today:

>snipped for bandwidth<
thanks, Julia, am glad you are ok, tried to call you but our phones were out most of the time too, and when I finally got connected and dialed in, I got the recording that your number was out of service ....

Hmmm... it wasn't working, but DH whacked the jack and now it does. He unplugged the direct-line phone and put our multi-handset battery-operated ones back. Could he have, perhaps, not plugged it in all the way? Of course not, he's a computer professional!

 

[Chickielady]

I dearly love both Magnolia soulangeana "tulip tree" and Magnolia stellata "star magnolia" but have come to realize the air, sun exposure, and soil out here are just not enough for them ... too much freezing in the winter, too much wind, too much sun in the summer, not enough organic matter in the soil, even when "enriched" -- I have bought about ten of them and all have died within months

Ha ! That is odd, maybe this variety is NOT one of those you listed, as THIS one takes over in a miniature tree/bush like manner & has NO ISSUES with either native soil nor climes.
Crazy tree!
Like I said, snow & ice had every one of it's branches ON THE GROUND and this a 12-15 foot mature tree...so a dwarf species.
Once the weight was gone, up she went, covered as I said in glossy leaves and millions of buds now at about 2 to 3" tall.........Gorgeous survivor.

And edited to add: we are CLAY here...hard to figure how anything can survive that does not penetrate the clay~~~~~~

 

[Stumpfarmer]

DH's man Cave...shed roof UP in the front where the door is.

He came in the cabin all excited to get the camera this is the Yellow Transparent which is the pollinator for about half of the orchard, split in half to the roots. Weirdly enough it's the youngest tree in the orchard, planted forty years ago after the Columbus Day storm. The variety has notoriously weak and brittle wood, but this one was attacked by bark-shredding (editorial comments withheld) Eastern Grey Squirrels and had crown rot as a result.


And some time today there was a bit of wind and my beloved Merrill Magnolia lost two tops. I'm not up to photographing that, sorry.

Oh man, that stinks! I'm always sad to see a good old tree fallen. My orchard is young, and the bears get everything anyways, so I am not attached to it.

This orchard is pretty much the family heirloom- most of it planted before the first World War- all the cherries are gone, of course, and the one old Greengage may have gotten its final chop by the ice storm.

Attached doesn't put it too strongly.