Jeff Matthews Posted June 3, 2014 Share Posted June 3, 2014 Telluride! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Boxx Posted June 3, 2014 Share Posted June 3, 2014 This is what you do 900 years ago. Sadly, they built very small rooms, with poor corners.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators dtel Posted June 3, 2014 Moderators Share Posted June 3, 2014 Great look area Jeff, would love to go see myself. WOW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators dtel Posted June 3, 2014 Moderators Share Posted June 3, 2014 My little 50+ acres outside Reno, great camping /shooting, blowing things up (Tannerite). That would be a great place to camp out and watch stars. Not that blowing things up wouldn't be fun but I have never been someplace more wide open to the sky and away from everything, like light pollution. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max2 Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 Daylily time of the year Is that a massive Green JAP Maple in the center of that photo? If so, that thing has to be old! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Matthews Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 More from another bed Those remind me of hibiscus I used to grow in the early 1990's. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators dtel Posted June 4, 2014 Moderators Share Posted June 4, 2014 (edited) Daylily time of the year Is that a massive Green JAP Maple in the center of that photo? If so, that thing has to be old! Good eye, yes, Jap maples are our favorite plant. That plant was planted there about 10-12 years ago, it was about 4' when it was planted. I don't have a pic of just that tree but this pic was when I tore up the old garden and started redoing it last year this pic is from last June, the tree grew a lot since then. I guess moving everything around it kind of stimulated it ? The pic on the right is this spring. This garden now has 11 Japanese maples planted counting that big green upright, it's about 12' high and 20' wide. Edited June 4, 2014 by dtel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimer Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 Down dtel's way understory plants grow into full sized trees. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max2 Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 What a sanctuary your have dtel. I have a Green Jap I will get a photo of, but its not a full size tree like yours. I think your Green Jap is the best structured I have ever seen. I had a friend and his father had full size blood reds that large, but I have never seen greens that big. I think mine is a green lace leaf. Great photos BTW ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators dtel Posted June 4, 2014 Moderators Share Posted June 4, 2014 (edited) Down dtel's way understory plants grow into full sized trees. It seems like all the green "seedling" maples can take the heat and summer sun without burning. In that pic with the tall red maple on the left right by the funky colored bench has been there years longer than the big green tree. With Japanese maples the better the tree the more sensitive they are, which sucks. All the other Japanese maples we have are named grafted varieties and look great but are slow growers and not really hardy, it makes me sick when one dies for no apparent reason. That big green tree was a cheap seedling about $20 when we bought it, the little red tree in front of It is grafted and is worth $350-$400 and is not nearly as strong, that tree is probably 20 years old. All except the big green tree were cut back a little this winter which is needed to help them. Edited June 4, 2014 by dtel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimer Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 We have gone through two coral barks. My wife loves them but after two I'm thinking a hardier maple for the climate is warranted. I would prefer a lower growing variety, like 8 to 10 ft max. It's getting too late to plant now so maybe by fall I can decide and get it in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators dtel Posted June 4, 2014 Moderators Share Posted June 4, 2014 (edited) What a sanctuary your have dtel. I have a Green Jap I will get a photo of, but its not a full size tree like yours. I think your Green Jap is the best structured I have ever seen. I had a friend and his father had full size blood reds that large, but I have never seen greens that big. I think mine is a green lace leaf. Great photos BTW ! Thank you, but to tell the truth that tree was only trimmed once a few months ago because it one wild branch grew down, so I cut it off. That tall skinny tree on the left (in the left pic) is a Bloodgood and it's been there undisturbed for 15 years and just won't take off ? You know what's crazy, 11 Japanese maples in that garden and I made the building in the middle a tiki bar. It should have been a Japanese style garden and building and it would have looked better with the pond and all..........but not as much fun, so tiki it is. And I always wanted a Japanese garden, and we only did one Japanese garden in all the years we did landscaping. Some others, different stages of redoing everything and cutting back. Edited June 4, 2014 by dtel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators dtel Posted June 4, 2014 Moderators Share Posted June 4, 2014 (edited) We have gone through two coral barks. My wife loves them but after two I'm thinking a hardier maple for the climate is warranted. I would prefer a lower growing variety, like 8 to 10 ft max. It's getting too late to plant now so maybe by fall I can decide and get it in. I have come close to buying a coral bark, I looked at them many times in nurseries and just never got one. What you said about the climate that is very true, we tried to pick out varieties that have a better chance of making it here and it's still tough. All of the better maples we have are in the garden where they are because the need the shade or they will burn up, only a couple can take the sun in the heat of the summer. About a year ago I removed hundreds of azaleas and over a hundred Crepe Myrtles from two sides of this property to plant clumping bamboo for a noise screen and privacy from the road, we live on a corner. I used some of the taller purple Crepe Myrtles in this garden to give shade for the maples, you can see some of them in the pics. A variety that can take more sun is Crimson Queen, it starts out in the summer bright red and turns dark red over the summer, it a weeping dissectum, it's the one on the far left pic above. Edited June 5, 2014 by dtel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JL Sargent Posted June 4, 2014 Author Share Posted June 4, 2014 That Bloodgood is a beautiful tree. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max2 Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 What a sanctuary your have dtel. I have a Green Jap I will get a photo of, but its not a full size tree like yours. I think your Green Jap is the best structured I have ever seen. I had a friend and his father had full size blood reds that large, but I have never seen greens that big. I think mine is a green lace leaf. Great photos BTW ! Thank you, but to tell the truth that tree was only trimmed once a few months ago because it one wild branch grew down, so I cut it off. That tall skinny tree on the left (in the left pic) is a Bloodgood and it's been there undisturbed for 15 years and just won't take off ? You know what's crazy, 11 Japanese maples in that garden and I made the building in the middle a tiki bar. It should have been a Japanese style garden and building and it would have looked better with the pond and all..........but not as much fun, so tiki it is. And I always wanted a Japanese garden, and we only did one Japanese garden in all the years we did landscaping. Some others, different stages of redoing everything and cutting back. Maple's compliment any kind of Bar ! Very nice dtel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimer Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 It's hard to say no to a tiki bar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max2 Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 It's hard to say no to a tiki bar. I agree Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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