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Will the weather be able to stop Lowry tomorrow?
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Pretty cool visualization there.
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We opted for the BloomStruck cultivar since it only grows to around 4-5 feet. We didn't want to block our front windows. On a side note, it really is helpful when you do the planting and know what you actually have in the ground for maintenance purposes. I couldn't imagine trying to figure out what previous owners had.
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I'm actually pretty happy otherwise with how the gardening is coming along. All the new plantings are showing signs of new growth. The spirea particularly look healthy, and the lily of the valley and hydrangea in the last couple of weeks have shown new growth as well.
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Its sister tree and the lower branches all have red-tinged new growth leaves, so all hope is not lost for me.
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I grabbed a variant specifically for fall color, I think they are autumn blaze.
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I'll have to look into that, because I really don't want to lose it after my very deliberate attempt to find a blazing red fall color to plant.
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I'm also struggling with one of my red maples at home. I'm not sure what happened to it. We planted two a little over a year and a half ago, trunks about 2 inches at their thickest. One is thriving, but the other lost the top of its crown. Full foliage around the middle and bottom though. I've weeded and watered, but still not seeing any signs of life on top.
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Speaking of diseased trees, I was always bummed once I found out what the Ostrander Elms gravestone was all about in the middle of Cornell's campus. This is the view I was familiar with, but Dutch elm claimed Ostrander's about 100 years from their 1877 planting. These two pictures are roughly taken from that same intersection, looking in the same direction.
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Bissell really is my go to. So many great options, and now that you don't have to camp out for a four pack it's all the better.
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2019 Short/Medium Range Severe Weather Thread
OceanStWx replied to snowlover2's topic in Lakes/Ohio Valley
I definitely wouldn't feel super comfortable about that sharp eastern edge to the slight in IL. -
Beds are all mulched. Peonies have flowered and hydrangeas are starting to get a purple tinge to them, so it appears I haven't killed anything yet.
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Just like the freshets of old. I mean there are still scars from the late 1800s in NH. Stripped the mountains down the granite.
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Yeah, when the stratus comes in it usually fogs in hard at GYX because we're 400 ft, but once you get into the Royal River Valley it clears out. The real trick is figuring out when all the low elevation sites go dense fog vs just the hill tops.
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I lucked out. Three neighbors have had to bring someone in and completely replace their lawns. And one of those even failed to come in nice. I think we were starting to lose it last year but I took a page out of Kevin's book and bombed it with fertilizer. Went away on a long weekend vacation and came back to a lawn that choked the mower a few times. Otherwise it's full on trench warfare at Chez Legro. Fighting yard by yard to hack the weeds out.
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Hard to eff up Pebble.
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We are in Portland, barely. We live out near the Falmouth line because that's the only place we could find a plot to build on but it's a great neighborhood.
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Still have to dig out the rest of the beds around a few plants, but this is what we're working with so far. Now to mulch and patch the lawn.
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I'll try and grab some when I get home from work. The greenhouse/nursery was a little overwhelming, but we ended up going with (from inside to outside off the front door) a golden cone juniper, bloomstruck hydrangea, and avalanche lily of the valley. On the side of the house we have an azalea bracketed by two spirea.
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I mean they all play the same course right? I don't particularly care if the winner is +10 or -10, but the guy who plays the best golf over 72 holes will win it. And you know what, I bitch and moan when my course doesn't mow or rake the bunkers well enough, or sticks the pin on a ridge. I enjoy seeing pros complain too. Maybe the should try making birdie from a soggy fairway and a green where the grass died in March from ice cover.
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I don't really get that deep into the weeds beyond if the last few days have been rainy.
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I don't know, I hate advection fog. It's so fickle. Patterns that look great will sometimes bust, and patterns that look meh will sock in. Radiation fog is mostly pattern recognition and persistence (once you know the terrain well enough).
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Advection fog can feature pretty strong winds. Sometimes a breeze actually helps the fog form. Convergence near the coast actually creates a subtle amount of lift to cool the air to saturation. Typically we don't have very strong winds with this type of advection fog though. Seeing moisture actually increase with height is definitely a check mark for favorable.
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It's possible for some dense fog as the warm front stays hung up along the coast. You don't need to advect very high dewpoints into our area before fog forms this time of year (water temps still in the low 50s).
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It only took a year and a half but we (I) finally got around to planting at the new house. Two 10x3' beds on either side of the front door, and another 12x3' bed on the side of the house that is really visible from the street. The good news is I have 96 ft sq. ft. less to mow, the bad news I had 96 sq. ft of lawn to dig up. Now I just need to figure out what I can plant along the edge with the "wetlands" that is prettier to look at than weeds.
