It’s been hot & dry with major humidity for weeks… fire bans everywhere… 30-35 C roughly 90-95F. Has dropped to 22. It’s awesome! Windows open and AC shut off!!! Yay!!!
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Aw man!!!! I’m soooooo envious! I’m over here trying to find a smaller tree for zone 7b that will tolerate full sun. My HOA has “expressed concerns” abt the rapid growth of a free tulip poplar I planted last year. And that it will grow several stories high. I feel like a jerk bc I don’t want to
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Tulip trees gorgeous but big! What about a birch, fast with sufficient water but not a dominating canopy, even if a triple stem…? Or catulpa… long beans temporarily messy in the fall but gorgeous leaves & flowers when it blooms. It too, doesn’t dominate. Look it up if you don’t know it.
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Pull the tree! But I understand their concerns and also—I don’t want a giant in my garden! Although, it has been so much fun watching it thrive! (Looking into dogwoods—but our last foray ended in disaster and disappointment). We have hot, full sun in the tree’s spot.
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I will mill the lumber because it’s worth it given the high value of the tree. 😳😂
aug 18, 2025, 6:44 pm • 1 0 • view
It’s going to be a wonderful tree! I hope we can find another spot to plant it! I’ve been so impressed with how well it’s taken the heat/ draught. I mean: I LOVE this particular little tree! And all the more bc we got it FREE at the farmers market last year!
aug 18, 2025, 7:01 pm • 1 0 • view
Always a good find!
aug 18, 2025, 7:03 pm • 1 0 • view
You KNOW me!!!
aug 18, 2025, 7:19 pm • 1 0 • view
😂😂😂 I know me… guessing we share some of the same traits!
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I’m currently “managing its demise”… it’s a massive maple that has been declining for several years… I think when I removed 20 understory trees bc of ash borer beetle. What it looks like and what it should look like…
aug 18, 2025, 6:43 pm • 3 0 • view
Ps. catalpa tree
aug 18, 2025, 7:03 pm • 1 0 • view
I keep stumbling across this in my research. 🧐 I’m certain I’ve seen one, but wouldn’t recognize it and say—“oh, that’s a lovely catalpa!” The best, most perfect tree I’ve seen is at the airport Marriott in ATL. I was obsessed with it last year before the free tulip poplar. Lemme find a pic.
aug 18, 2025, 7:21 pm • 1 0 • view
Also c/o serviceberry… small trees… flowers in spring and berries in Fall
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I was never able to properly identify it! And yes, I am that woman who’s outside the airport hotel in ATL, obsessing abt their perfect trees before we leave for a trip to MX
aug 18, 2025, 7:31 pm • 1 0 • view
I’m laughing… I’m obsessed with seeing a new plant & then identifying it even when not something that grows in my zone. I think I just like knowing things 😳😂
aug 19, 2025, 12:22 pm • 1 0 • view
Frankly, I can’t wait for the Australians to begin posting their gardens! You know it’s gonna be fun and wild!!
aug 19, 2025, 8:54 pm • 1 0 • view
A professor
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My brother & his wife live there & bought a property recently owned by professor specializing in butterflies… I’ve demanded pics! 😂😊
aug 19, 2025, 9:03 pm • 1 0 • view
Please please share! I’m afraid I lost my best Aussie friend (who’s also into flowers) when I abandoned twitter. I need to email him and let him know abt 🦋 gardening
aug 19, 2025, 9:11 pm • 1 0 • view
We are the same person! I swear to gods! I realized today, as I was getting out of the car (after work)—what was it that I needed to research? Which plant? Woodpod purslane. It simply shows up in my herb boxes every year—beneath a cluster of sunflowers (they may or may not show)
aug 19, 2025, 8:53 pm • 1 0 • view
Lol!!!! God help anyone who wanted to get a word in edgewise if we are talking gardens 😂 It’s edible I think… one I looked up bc it grows here too though I never had one that flowered!
aug 19, 2025, 9:00 pm • 1 0 • view
I think you’re right!
aug 19, 2025, 9:12 pm • 1 0 • view
WHOA!! That’s kinda how I felt with the last dogwood. Except it never reached its potential. I hated HATED when it died!
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