Re: Is it winter?
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 2:58 pm
Icarreau, got to hand it to you on the musical talent. I'm a Zeppelin fan, Stairway to Heaven was our high school prom song. I don't want to get started on those memories...
dskoon, all but the BCP are natives, but I'm told BCP should do okay here in PV. When I saw the BCP, I didn't hesitate to grab it. Don't think I've ever seen one outside the White Mountains, certainly not growing around these parts. I'd like to get my hands on a nice foxtail pine, too.
3Deserts, I tried germinating BCP. So far, nothing showing. However, I do have three giant sequoias germinating, cute little buggers sitting on one of the chairs by the window in the dinning room. It will be a few years before I get them in the ground, if they make it that far. I found the BCP at Grand Pa's Nursery in Descanso about five miles west of Pine Valley. It was the only one they had, and it is a nice bushy specimen, too.
I'm trying to get an englemann Oak (a white oak variety). Englemann are found only in SoCal. An interesting factoid is that San Diego county has more native oak species than anywhere else in the world. The englemann is the rarest of them all, and biologists are finding them resistant to the goldspotted oak borer, that blasted beetle-blight culprit that is killing multitudes of the CA live oak (red oak variety) down this way. I found a 24" boxed Englemann specimen for $210.00, and I'll get it if the current buyer backs out.
Hey Rick, I'm going to call Chalfant's Tree Farm and see if they have any foxtail pine. Either way, from their website, it looks to be like a nice tree farm worth visiting next time I'm up that way. I'd get another BCP if they have no foxtail.
Got another 0.25" of rain last night. It was a good ground soaker, this last system... 1.7" total rainfall for the month in PV. Looks like we are headed for a nice drying out. All of the holes ought to be good and wet for today's planting.
Cheers!
dskoon, all but the BCP are natives, but I'm told BCP should do okay here in PV. When I saw the BCP, I didn't hesitate to grab it. Don't think I've ever seen one outside the White Mountains, certainly not growing around these parts. I'd like to get my hands on a nice foxtail pine, too.
3Deserts, I tried germinating BCP. So far, nothing showing. However, I do have three giant sequoias germinating, cute little buggers sitting on one of the chairs by the window in the dinning room. It will be a few years before I get them in the ground, if they make it that far. I found the BCP at Grand Pa's Nursery in Descanso about five miles west of Pine Valley. It was the only one they had, and it is a nice bushy specimen, too.
I'm trying to get an englemann Oak (a white oak variety). Englemann are found only in SoCal. An interesting factoid is that San Diego county has more native oak species than anywhere else in the world. The englemann is the rarest of them all, and biologists are finding them resistant to the goldspotted oak borer, that blasted beetle-blight culprit that is killing multitudes of the CA live oak (red oak variety) down this way. I found a 24" boxed Englemann specimen for $210.00, and I'll get it if the current buyer backs out.
Hey Rick, I'm going to call Chalfant's Tree Farm and see if they have any foxtail pine. Either way, from their website, it looks to be like a nice tree farm worth visiting next time I'm up that way. I'd get another BCP if they have no foxtail.
Got another 0.25" of rain last night. It was a good ground soaker, this last system... 1.7" total rainfall for the month in PV. Looks like we are headed for a nice drying out. All of the holes ought to be good and wet for today's planting.
Cheers!