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February 11, 2007 : Planting the Carolinian Forest Demonstration Bed
The beginnings of a major new garden component at the Garden.
Last year we planted one bed of the new Carolinian Forest to give visitors an idea of what they can look forward to seeing in the future. Here are a few photos (featuring horticulturist Tony Maniezzo) taken then. Donor support means that we will be planting a second bed next week and another eight this spring. This area is truly going to be amazing. It will allow us to show visitors eastern hardwoods that are not often seen in this region.
Posted by Andy Hill at February 11, 2007 6:00 PM
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Posted by: Chris Green at July 3, 2007 1:33 AM
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Since you're planting a demonstration Carolinian Forest, I hope you will be including some Paw Paw trees (Asimina triloba) among the plantings.
While doing so it might be a good idea to find the most northernly examples of that tree from Ontario. Selecting these out and isolating them will help change the genetics of the resulting seeds a bit so that a more cold-hardy variety will (may) result.
Paw Paw is currently hardy to approximately -10, but I don't know if that's *F or *C.
Cheers,
Chris Green.