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Pacific Northwest Garden Forum: Small Deciduous Specimen Tree
Quote silver_ creek · Reply · bullet Posted: Nov-05-2008 at 6:57pm. I'm kinda "ho hum" on styrax; great while in bloom but not much fall color or winter form (I do like the winter form on Styrax obassia. ...

General Gardening : First Killing Frost
Author: silver_ creek Subject: First Killing Frost Posted: Oct-16-2008 at 6:53pm It is getting good fall color, mostly deep maroon. It's planted away from the main ornamental garden, along one of the trails to the creek, so I don't see ...

General Gardening : First Killing Frost
The frost was hard enough that most of our Japanese maples look like they will go brown rather than their usual brilliant fall tones. Oh, well. The stewartias look like they will get fall color, and the Parrotia and Nyssa sylvatica seem ...

general gardening : crocosmia: how have you liked it?
a bird took action, and we now have a deep red (not that much orange to the color) crocosmia blooming in the garden. it needs to move, but i think i'll keep it, in a different place, because the hummers obviously are overjoyed.

woody plants : small deciduous specimen tree
author: silver_ creek subject: small deciduous specimen tree posted: jul-03-2008 at 3:54pm oh, the parrotia is a beautiful tree, but more subtle than the paperbark maple in its bark. the winter form is very graceful, in the same way a ...

woody plants : small deciduous specimen tree
both have fantastic fall color. also note on size- the parrotia can get quite wide, compared to a paperbark. i have both trees (actually 2 parrotia and 4 paperbark maples) and the paperbarks are definitly more upright in habit.

flora & fauna : my top ten natives
author: silver_ creek subject: my top ten natives posted: may-08-2008 at 6:51pm i have to agree with vaccinium ovatum as a top ten choice. others on my list- sword fern...if nothing else will grow, plant a sword fern. ...

[log] fear and loathing in the citron solar
she's starting to to regain some color to her quite pale complexion too. addison tells the servants firmly that they are to bring lucretia de'mandrake to the citron solar immediately. then he turns and says, "tris, can you make it ...

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