| treeboy |
| | June 16, 2010 | Reply with quote | #1 |
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As per usual human nature, it seems when we find a good thing, we tend to go overboard. Here are a couple of plants I see that are on the cusp, or maybe have already surpassed, the point of being overplanted.
Daylily "Stella D'Oro"
Ninebark "Diablo"
These 2 are immensely popular right across Canada right now.
What are some of the plants you've seen that you think are being overused?
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| akeimou |
| | June 16, 2010 | Reply with quote | #2 |
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schubert chokecherry and swedish columnar aspen!
so i'm on the lookout for other dark-leaved tree/shrub and columnar fruiting trees.
--meg
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| Nate |
| | June 16, 2010 | Reply with quote | #3 |
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Green ash and elm in Edmonton. They need to work on that. At least the city has been successful with honeylocusts, white ash, autumn blaze maple and norway maple recently.
As for a purple tree.....try purple leaf sandcherry tree or prairie slendor maple.
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| treeboy |
| | June 16, 2010 | Reply with quote | #4 |
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Purple leafed sandcherry is no longer recommended for planting on the prairies due to it's questionable hardiness and unthriftiness... They don't look that great even here in SW Ontario (Zone 7) and are seldom planted anymore here either.
There are many good selections of Barberry now that are purple leaved and legal to plant once again... Also some of the hardier smoke bushes (Cotinus) for very protected spots.
As for the ash and elm, the day of reckoning will be coming probably within a decade or two as Dutch Elm Disease and the Emerald Ash Borer come to wipe out the mature urban forests of cities like Edmonton, Saskatoon and Calgary... all of these cities need to IMMEDIATELY begin vast diversification now lest whole neighbourhoods are left treeless except for the weed trees like poplar, Manitoba maple and Siberian Elm...
Potentilla is yucky and overplanted, too...
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| Leo |
| | June 18, 2010 | Reply with quote | #6 |
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Columnar Aspen works for many situations and its easy to intergrate them into landscape and hardy.
Ashes being the sore eyes. There are just too many dead Ash trees and most are poor struture forms with too many die back. They are as bad as Manitoba maple.
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| Lynn in MN | |
| Nate |
| | Sept 02, 2010 | Reply with quote | #8 |
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Lynn,
We're a couple years behind you here in Edmonton. We're just now using autumn blaze as boulevard trees and I'm sure one day I will think the same thing as you about them. But so far they seem to be able to handle the abuse and its better than just ash and elm everywhere.
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| Lynn in MN |
| | Sept 02, 2010 | Reply with quote | #9 |
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They are beautiful trees, it is just that we need to diversify the canopy as the emerald ash borer and other devastating bugs have taught us. The beautiful canopy of elms that I grew up with shading out streets has disappeared because of the mentality of one species of tree planting. I hope we have learned our lesson. |
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