Cherry Update And Rain

[greenstorm]

Alright, so I went to the local David Hunter garden center, where they had 4 varieties of cherry on a graft. The trees were so much better and more solid looking, though they were about twenty bucks more. I always have the urge to rescue stuff from home-depot-type places, but if I want something healthy that will last that's certainly not the way to go for this. I also saw a robinia 'purple robe' there, which I want to look up, and some 'apple blossom' clematis armandii. Also jerusalem artichoke, but no horseradish as yet. There were some large trees there as well - standard as opposed to dwarf, so you're lookin at I think 35 feet or so. That might almost be tall enough for the corner, though unharvestable as cherries. Hrm.

The world needs more broadleafed evergreen shrubs and vines.

It's raining now on the big pile of mud in the backyard that is The Trench. It rained on me at the nursery, too. Nice to be out in, but I'm underdressed and it's cold. I'll be glad to get home and crawl into bed -- I've used up my warm bath allowance for the day, so that's what I'll do.

Take care.

Comments

[darthmaus.livejournal.com]

Are the armandii all evergreen? I think it was the 'snowdrift' ones I was looking at the other day.

[greenstorm.livejournal.com]

Yeah. The snowdrift and standard are white-flowered, while the apple-blossom is very, very subtly purple-pinkish white. :) Good to have both.