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    60 year old Juniper P. nana's

    Very nice, healthy looking procumbens. Years ago, they were very popular in California for landscape use. They could be found an any nursery. They tend to stay low and will cascade if there is room. It's hard to find big ones for sale now.
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    Jap Maple from Garden Nursery?

    That is a very nice tree in the first post. I have a number of acer palmatum cultivars. The one in the posted picture looks more my shishgashira specimins. I have a couple of kotohime's (at least, according to the labels) but their growth pattern is more like a straight, thick, short trunk...
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    was struggling how to word this

    Thanks for the information. I planted 2 white birch (betula alba) multitrunk trees in the landscape in 1978. They did well to about 30 feet for about 28 years and then both died the same year. I assumed it was because my (quercus agrifolia) live oaks had grown up around them and started to...
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    was struggling how to word this

    Is there a concern with trees just being old and at the end of thier life expectancy? I had never thought along those lines but I recently had one of my nicest acquisitions die. It was a white birch about 15-20 years old. I assumed that the death was my fault being that this tree was in a...
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    Permission to Collect in California

    Caltrans has recently finished a new bridge in the Big Bear area to replace the old one which ran over the dam. To do this, large sections of rocky sloping terrain were blasted or bulldozed away to make room for the bridge abutments and road work. There were many native trees removed that has...
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