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the green gardener
created: Jun 11, 2008
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Yard is hard clay and rock, the type of sun that will wither you before you reach the door from the driveway. Tried a raised planter using a 50/50 mix 6" deep. No luck with that but the lilies did really good but only the first year. Lilies do good everywhere else in the yard though.
GOLO member since July 2, 2007
June 11, 2008 12:59 p.m.
GOLO member since December 9, 2007
June 11, 2008 4:21 p.m.
June 12, 2008 1:50 p.m.
GOLO member since July 2, 2007
June 12, 2008 9:00 p.m.
June 12, 2008 9:57 p.m.
GOLO member since December 9, 2007
June 13, 2008 9:12 a.m.
GOLO member since January 20, 2008
June 16, 2008 8:44 p.m.
BUT... there are sprouts coming off the base at the root. My question is, do I saw off the big part at ground level (then spray with Prune Seal?), and save one shoot for the new tree?
OR... should I wait until next year to see if the tree will come back out? And if that is the case, what about the shoots from the root?
It's just a run of the mill maple that I dug up from my dad's farm... not Japanese, or anything of the specimen variety.
GOLO member since September 20, 2007
July 2, 2008 11:38 a.m.
We also have a HUGE bradford pear that did like your tree, the tree died, we cut it and it grew from the root and is now huge, that was 15 years ago.
GOLO member since July 15, 2007
July 3, 2008 5:52 p.m.
GOLO member since September 9, 2007
July 9, 2008 5:22 a.m.
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