Flowers 2020

Forsoothe!

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A little better this morning. Who thinks I should remove this front branch. Kinda blocks the view up her skirt.
Top looks a bit strange while I get this new apex going.View attachment 302378View attachment 302380
Boo Hiss... The flowers ain't there very long, and they are the bragging rights of the tree. Azalea and other great flowering trees not in bloom aren't really welcome or taken seriously by the snobs with their JBP, etc., having nothing to do with the fact that nobody looks at the run-of-the-mill Junipers when they're parked next to the flamboyant super stars in bloom at shows. Do some repositioning, yes, that's what wire is for, but keep as much in-your-face stuff as possible. Artfully styled, of course.
 

ElyDave

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As I've been updating my log of my trees this month while in lockdown, I've been looking back at soem older photos.

When I got married in 1999, I ended up with a pot from my new MIL with three nonedescript plum seedlings in it

This is them around 2003-2004
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I've grown them as a group ever since, and just coming into blossom in Feb this year
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Leo in N E Illinois

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That red morning glory, locally here is called Cardinal vine or Scarlet creeper, is a pass around old time garden vine. Seems everyone my sister knows in Carbondale and Murphysboro, IL has this in their yards. Seeds are passed from neighbor to neighbor. I rarely if ever have seen it for sale anywhere. It is probably Ipomoea x Sloteri - an interesting hybrid, that has "evolved" to a distinct man made species. It is an allotetraploid, meaning a spontaneous doubling of chromosomes created a species which is fertile with itself, but isolated, sterile, when crossed back to either parent. The parentage is believed to be (Ipomoea hederifolia x Ipomoea quamoclit)

Cool in that allotetraploids were a "holy grail" in my plant breeding courses, in that the occurrence of an allotetraploid was the seedling you looked for when trying to breed complex, polyploid hybrids, as they restored fertility to a breeding line that was becoming infertile due to mis-matching chromosomes.
End obscure factoid digression.

My flowering crab apple, in its "full glory". Still in training, lots of faults, still waiting to be "officially styled".
Malus 'Ann E' weeping crab apple.
just noticed, I really need to paint the house, oh well. not this week.
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