Aging Gardens
of
Joe Landsberger
Saint Paul, Minnesota
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Perennials in
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September
Through the months:
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Trees |
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Installations and art |
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Virtual Tour of the Leech Street Trees:
In 2021 two trees I planted at Goodrich were listed in St. Paul's Landmark Trees:
2021:
Temple Juniper - Juniperus rigida
in history was considered sacred and planted near temples.
Saint Paul Landmark Tree
2021:
Tulip Tree - Liriodendron tulipifera
St. Paul
Landmark Tree
April
25, 2020:
Magolia Royal Star
May
4, 2020:
Redbud (Cercis canadensis)
with Magnolia "Betty" in bud
May
4, 2020:
Weeping redbud (Cercis canadensis) around the boulder
May
4, 2020:
Pin cherry (Prunus pensylvanica) with blue sky.
(April 28: pin cherry cut down due to a compromised trunk--mold)
May
6, 2020:
Magnolia "Betty" bud opening
Redbud backdrop
May
7, 2020:
Saucer Magnolias (M. x soulangeana)
Planted as a "woodland" magnolia but I can't find one by that name on the Internet. It has a darker color with a bit of green in the petals.
May
9, 2020:
Weeping Norway spruce:
The tips of the spruce are red turning green in summer.
May
10, 2020:
Weeping crab-apple "red jade":
Red Jade has lovely small red fruits through winter--it takes a while for the birds to enjoy
May
11, 2020:
Weeping flowering peach--Pink Cascade (Prunus persica).
Last year I had a few peaches, and enveloped them to discourage squirrels but they got them anyway. Maybe 2020!
May
12, 2020:
Magnolia "Betty"
May
13, 2020:
Crab apple "red jade"
Backdrop of a (Japanese) Temple Juniper--that in history was considered sacred and planted near temples.
Jue 8, 2022:
Kentucky yellowwood (Cladrastis kentukea, perhaps Anne Fr sard)
The Kentucky or American Yellowwood is a medium-sized, flowering tree. White, fragrant, pea-like flowers hang in 15-inch-long clusters in spring.
September 26,
2020:
Crab apple "red jade"
May
14, 2020:
Columnar Yellow Magnolia (Magnolia Sunspire) with the
"egg"
May
17, 2020:
Peach tree
May
18, 2020:
Lilac (Syringa) Agincourt Beauty #2
May
18, 2020:
Lilac S Tigerstedii
May
18, 2020:
Lilac (Syringa vulgaris 'Krasavitsa Moskvy') Beauty of Moscow
May
22, 2020:
A "weeping" lilac with a nice fragrance
June
14, 2020:
Peking lilac (Syringa-pekinensis)
June
22, 2020:
A dwarf catalpa (Catalpa speciosa-northern catalpa)
This dwarf does not flower or produce seed pods. The first 30 years of my house my neighbor Lorraine always wanted a catalpa tree in her lot. I bought her house and lot when she died and now transformed the garden. As she neared the end of her life, she wondered where her remains would be, so I mentioned that she liked her shrub rose and why not there? Her ashes are now below the boulder next to her catalpa tree.
June
1, 2020:
Magnoria scale
I've been fighting Magnolia scale for a couple years on two trees, but found it this year on two others. Treatment: my home mix of insecticidal soap (water, vegetable oil, Dawn dish soap). After cutting back branches I spray, then scrape off the "scale" and spray some more: daily. It works!
July
29, 2020:
Acer tegmentosum, the Manchurian striped maple (left) is an understory tree
found in the eastern United States.
Striped Bark Maple (Acer pensylvanicum) (right) also known as moosewood (moose like to eat it) or goosefoot (resembling its leaves). They look a lot alike!
September,
2020:
Dwarf weeping hemlock (Tsuga canadensis 'Pendula')
September,
2020:
Wells Emerald Creeper Norway Spruce
September,
2020:
Lacebark pine (Pinus bungeana)
Distinctive mottled bark sets it apart from other pines. Stiff, dark green needles are in clusters of 3.
September,
2020:
Dwarf Weeping Blue
(Colorado) Spruce (Picea pungens 'Pendula--tree form)'